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The role involves translating authentic workflows from physics, chemistry, materials science, astronomy, and computational science into reproducible, technically rigorous benchmark environments.\nYou will develop scientific inputs, computational models, executable reference solutions, automated tests, and objective grading criteria. Your work will help assess whether AI agents can reason through complex scientific problems, use command-line tools effectively, debug calculations, execute simulations, and generate accurate, reproducible scientific outputs.\nThe ideal candidate combines advanced academic or research expertise in a relevant physical-science discipline with strong programming skills and practical experience in computational modeling, numerical analysis, and scientific data processing.\nRequirements\nCore Scientific Domains\nCandidates should have expertise in at least one of the following areas:\nPhysics and computational physics\nChemistry and computational chemistry\nMaterials science and materials modeling\nAstronomy and cosmology\nThermodynamics\nQuantum mechanics\nStatistical mechanics\nNumerical and computational science\nKey Responsibilities\nScientific Task Design: Develop challenging, multi-step terminal-based tasks based on authentic physical-science research and computational workflows.\nEnvironment Development: Build self-contained, reproducible computational environments with appropriate scientific software, dependencies, and configurations.\nScientific Input Preparation: Create datasets, molecular structures, simulation parameters, experimental data, and model configurations.\nReference Solution Development: Implement reliable scientific solutions using Python, Bash, C/C++, Julia, or other relevant programming languages and domain-specific tools.\nAutomated Testing: Develop tests to validate numerical accuracy, physical consistency, convergence, expected output structures, and task completion.\nComputational Modeling: Design tasks involving simulations, numerical modeling, data fitting, optimization, spectroscopy, molecular analysis, and scientific visualization.\nScientific Validation: Define appropriate units, numerical tolerances, boundary conditions, physical constraints, and expected scientific behavior.\nReproducibility: Ensure tasks execute reliably in controlled environments without requiring runtime downloads or undocumented dependencies.\nDebugging and Optimization: Troubleshoot dependency conflicts, numerical precision issues, solver instability, computational performance, and file-format problems.\n Documentation: Clearly communicate scientific assumptions, computational methods, expected outputs, edge cases, and limitations to reviewers.\nRequired Qualifications\nA PhD in Engineering or a relevant physical-science discipline, or postdoctoral experience or equivalent advanced technical experience in a relevant field.\nStrong expertise in at least one core domain, such as physics, chemistry, materials science, astronomy, cosmology, or computational science.\nProficiency in Python, C/C++, Julia, Bash, or another programming language used for scientific computing.\nExperience with numerical methods, scientific simulations, computational modeling, or quantitative data analysis.\nFamiliarity with Linux and terminal-based development environments.\nAbility to independently develop, debug, and validate scientific computational workflows.\nStrong understanding of physical units, numerical precision, scientific constraints, and reproducibility.\nExcellent analytical, problem-solving, and technical communication skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with scientific computing libraries such as NumPy, SciPy, pandas, Matplotlib, SymPy, or JAX.\nFamiliarity with molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, finite-difference methods, Monte Carlo simulations, optimization, or statistical modeling.\nExperience with domain-specific tools such as OpenMM, ASE, RDKit, Psi4, LAMMPS, or GROMACS.\nFamiliarity with Docker, Conda, Git, continuous integration systems, and automated testing frameworks.\nExperience with high-performance computing (HPC) systems or computationally intensive scientific workloads.\nAdditional Advantages\nExperience evaluating AI coding agents or terminal-based AI systems.\nBackground in research software engineering or scientific benchmark development.\nExperience creating automated graders and objective evaluation frameworks.\nPublications or open-source contributions in computational science or related research areas.\nExperience converting experimental or research workflows into reproducible computational packages.\nContract and Compensation Details\nThis is a 5-week, full-time contractor assignment requiring 40 hours of work per week and at least 4 hours of daily overlap with PST.\nCompensation follows a pay-per-task model, with $300 paid for each approved task that meets the project's specifications and acceptance criteria. Each task is expected to take approximately 6-8 hours on average, depending on complexity.\nThe contract does not include medical benefits or paid leave. Candidates must be available to start immediately and commit to the required schedule throughout the engagement.\nSelection Process\nInterest Check Form: Complete the initial application and confirm interest in the assignment.\nMandatory Screening Assessment: Complete the Terminal Bench screening test, lasting approximately 20 minutes.\nSpecialized Physical Sciences Assessment: Complete one 40-minute assessment in the relevant subject area:\nAstronomy and Cosmology\nPhysics\nMaterials Science\nChemistry\nDelivery Manager Review: The application and assessment results will be reviewed before the final selection decision.\nTotal assessment time: Approximately 60 minutes, comprising the mandatory 20-minute screening test and one 40-minute subject-specific test. 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