Crossing Hurdles
Website:
crossinghurdles.com
Job details:
Position: Scientific Computing / Research Engineering Expert Earth Sciences
Type: Short-Term Contract
Compensation: $50 per hour
Location: Remote
Duration: 10 weeks
Commitment: 40 hours/week with 4 hours of PST overlap per day
Start Date: Immediate
Role Responsibilities
- Develop realistic, terminal-based scientific tasks for training and evaluating AI agents.
- Translate Earth Sciences workflows into reproducible computational tasks.
- Prepare and process environmental, climate, geospatial, geological, atmospheric, and oceanographic datasets.
- Build and debug computational environments and reproducible scientific workflows.
- Develop expert solutions and automated checks for objectively verifiable scientific outputs.
- Validate spatial and temporal data, uncertainty, numerical accuracy, and scientific quality.
Requirements
- PhD in climate science, atmospheric science, geophysics, oceanography, geology, hydrology, environmental modeling, remote sensing, Earth-system science, or another Earth Sciences discipline.
- Programming experience with Python, C/C++, MATLAB/Octave, Julia, or similar tools.
- Hands-on experience with Linux or terminal-based environments.
- Experience with scientific data processing, numerical modeling, geospatial analysis, environmental datasets, or time-series analysis.
- Ability to build, debug, and validate reproducible scientific workflows.
- Strong understanding of scientific quality control, spatial and temporal data, uncertainty, and numerical accuracy.
Application Process
- Complete the Interest Check Form.
- Complete the required assessment.
- Profiles will be reviewed by the Delivery Manager.
- Shortlisted candidates will receive the next steps by email.
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