Scientific Computing Expert — Physical Sciences
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Role highlights & qualifications
- Commitments Required: At least 6 hours per day and a minimum of 40 hours per week, with a 4-hour overlap with PST.
- Employment Type: Contractor assignment (no medical/paid leave)
- Duration of Contract: 5 weeks (expected start date is next week)
- Payment Type: Pay per task — $300 per approved task
- Design multi-step terminal tasks based on realistic physical-science workflows, developing self-contained computational environments with pinned dependencies and scientific software.
- Create input datasets, molecular structures, simulation parameters, experimental data, or model configurations.
- Implement expert solutions using Python, Bash, C/C++, Julia, or domain-specific tools, covering simulations, numerical modeling, data fitting, optimization, spectroscopy, molecular analysis, or scientific visualization.
- Develop automated tests for numerical accuracy, physical consistency, convergence, and output structure, defining appropriate numerical tolerances, units, boundary conditions, and expected scientific behavior.
- Validate that tasks are reproducible and execute successfully without runtime downloads, and debug issues involving dependencies, precision, solver stability, performance, and file formats.
- Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced technical experience in a relevant physical-science discipline.
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