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This role combines scientific domain expertise, research software engineering, computational problem-solving, and technical leadership to develop realistic, challenging, and objectively verifiable terminal-based scientific tasks.\nThe successful candidate will help design and validate scientific workflows involving climate science, atmospheric processes, geophysics, oceanography, geology, hydrology, remote sensing, and environmental modeling. 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