Scientific Computing / Research Engineering Expert — Earth Sciences
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About the job
Role Overview
We are seeking Earth Sciences experts to develop realistic, terminal-based scientific tasks for Terminal Bench Science. You will create computational workflows involving environmental data, climate systems, atmospheric processes, geophysics, oceanography, geology, and related fields.
You will design tasks that require AI agents to inspect scientific datasets, process geospatial or time-series data, run models, troubleshoot pipelines, and generate objectively verifiable scientific outputs.
What you'll do
- Translate authentic Earth-science workflows into self-contained terminal benchmark tasks.
- Prepare geospatial, climate, atmospheric, geological, hydrological, or oceanographic datasets.
- Build reproducible computational environments with appropriate scientific libraries and command-line tools.
- Create expert solutions using Python, R, Bash, Julia, or domain-specific software.
- Develop tasks involving geospatial analysis, time-series processing, numerical modeling, interpolation, forecasting, remote sensing, or environmental risk analysis.
- Define objective grading criteria for scientific outputs, model behavior, data transformations, and spatial or temporal accuracy.
- Validate coordinate systems, units, timestamps, missing-data handling, and scientific assumptions.
- Create automated tests for numerical tolerances, file formats, metadata, and reproducibility.
- Debug issues involving geospatial projections, large datasets, dependencies, performance, and numerical stability.
- Document input data provenance, expected outputs, edge cases, and limitations.
What we're looking for
- Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced technical experience in Earth Sciences or a closely related field .
- Strong expertise in at least one area such as climate science, atmospheric science, geophysics, oceanography, geology, hydrology, remote sensing, environmental modeling, or Earth-system science .
- Strong programming skills in Python, R, Julia, Bash , or another scientific programming language.
- Hands-on experience with scientific data processing, numerical modeling, geospatial analysis, environmental datasets, or time-series analysis.
- Comfortable working independently in Linux/terminal-based environments .
- Ability to build, debug, and validate reproducible scientific computational workflows.
- Strong understanding of scientific quality control, spatial/temporal data, uncertainty, and numerical accuracy.
Preferred Qualification
- Experience with NumPy, pandas, SciPy, xarray, rasterio, GeoPandas, Cartopy, GDAL , or similar scientific/geospatial tools.
- Experience with scientific data formats such as NetCDF, HDF5, GeoTIFF, shapefiles, or GRIB .
- Experience working with climate, weather, satellite, seismic, oceanographic, geological, or hydrological datasets.
- Familiarity with Docker, Conda, Git, CI/CD, automated testing, or HPC environments .
Nice to Have
- Research software engineering, scientific benchmarking, or automated grader development experience.
- Experience evaluating AI coding/terminal agents or developing tasks and evaluations for AI systems.
- Publications or open-source contributions in Earth, environmental, geospatial, or computational sciences.
Offer Details
- Commitments Required: At least 6 hours per day and minimum 40 hours per week with overlap of 4 hours with PST.
- Employment type : Contractor assignment (no medical/paid leave)
- Duration of contract : 5 week [expected start date is next week]
- Payment type: Pay Per Task $300/per aproved task
From Turing's job posting, checked 10 Nov 2026. The employer's own page is the final word on requirements and availability. This is work on AI systems for an AI company, not for a space employer: never share export-controlled or proprietary technical data in a task, an application or an interview.
About Turing
Coding, reasoning and domain-expert contracts producing human data for frontier AI labs, paid monthly.
How it pays: Monthly for the hours logged, paid on the 5th of the month through Turing's own portal or Deel, depending on the project.
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