PhD Earth Sciences Expert – Remote, $50/hr

About the role

We are seeking a Scientific Computing / Research Engineering Expert in Earth Sciences to develop realistic, terminal‑based scientific tasks for training and evaluating AI agents. This is a short‑term, 10‑week contract, remote position working 40 hours per week with a required PST overlap.

Key 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.

Required profile

• PhD in climate science, atmospheric science, geophysics, oceanography, geology, hydrology, environmental modeling, remote sensing, Earth‑system science, or a related Earth Sciences discipline.
• Strong 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.

Required skills

• Python
• C/C++
• MATLAB/Octave
• Julia
• Linux (terminal‑based environments)
• Scientific data processing
• Numerical modeling
• Geospatial analysis
• Time‑series analysis