PhD Earth Sciences Expert - Remote Research Engineer

About the role

A remote, short-term contract of 10 weeks at $50 per hour for a PhD-level expert in Earth Sciences, working on scientific computing and research engineering. The commitment is 40 hours per week with 4 hours of Pacific Time overlap each day, starting immediately.

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 another Earth Sciences discipline.
• 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.

Required skills

• Programming in Python, C/C++, MATLAB/Octave, Julia or similar tools.
• Scientific data processing, numerical modeling and geospatial analysis.
• Strong understanding of scientific quality control, uncertainty and numerical accuracy.

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