[UK4GT14S]-Physical Sciences Expert

Hello,
Greetings from ZettaMine!!!
Freelancing Opportunity :- We are currently hiring Physical Sciences Experts for a short-term AI research and scientific computing project across India and other eligible countries.
Role: Physical Sciences Expert – Terminal Bench
Experience: Ph.D., Postdoctoral Experience, or Equivalent Advanced Technical Experience
Location: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Turkey, Brazil & Colombia
Mode of Work: Remote
Start Date: Immediate
Description
We are seeking experienced Physical Sciences Experts to develop realistic, terminal-based scientific tasks for Terminal Bench Science. You will translate authentic workflows across physics, chemistry, materials science, astronomy, and computational science into reproducible benchmark environments.
The role focuses on evaluating whether AI agents can reason through scientific problems, implement reliable computational models, operate command-line tools, debug scientific calculations, and produce accurate and verifiable scientific outputs.
Responsibilities
Design authentic, multi-step physical-science tasks based on realistic research and computational workflows
Translate scientific and research workflows into self-contained terminal environments
Prepare datasets, molecular structures, simulation parameters, experimental data, and model configurations
Implement expert solutions using Python, Bash, C/C++, Julia, or other relevant scientific tools
Create tasks involving simulations, numerical modeling, data fitting, optimization, spectroscopy, molecular analysis, and scientific visualization
Develop automated tests for numerical accuracy, physical consistency, convergence, and output structure
Define appropriate numerical tolerances, units, boundary conditions, and expected scientific behavior
Validate that tasks are reproducible and execute successfully without runtime downloads
Debug issues involving dependencies, numerical precision, solver stability, performance, and file formats
Document scientific assumptions, computational requirements, expected outputs, and known limitations
Core Domains
Physics
Chemistry
Materials Science
Computational Physics
Computational Chemistry
Astronomy & Cosmology
Thermodynamics
Quantum Mechanics
Statistical Mechanics
Materials Modeling
Scientific Computing
Requirements
Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced technical experience in a relevant physical-science discipline
Strong programming skills in Python, C/C++, Julia, Bash, or another relevant scientific programming language
Experience working in Linux or terminal-based environments
Strong knowledge of numerical methods, scientific modeling, simulations, or quantitative data analysis
Ability to independently implement, test, debug, and validate computational scientific workflows
Strong understanding of units, numerical precision, physical constraints, and scientific reproducibility
Ability to develop rigorous scientific tasks with clearly defined inputs, expected outputs, and evaluation criteria
Nice to Have
Experience with NumPy, SciPy, pandas, Matplotlib, SymPy, JAX, or similar scientific libraries
Familiarity with molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, finite-difference methods, Monte Carlo methods, optimization, or statistical modeling
Experience with OpenMM, ASE, RDKit, Psi4, LAMMPS, GROMACS, or other domain-specific scientific software
Familiarity with Docker, Conda, Git, CI systems, and automated testing
Experience working with HPC systems or performance-sensitive scientific workloads
Bonus Points
Experience evaluating AI coding or terminal agents
Research Software Engineering experience
Experience creating benchmark tasks or automated graders
Publications or open-source contributions involving computational science
Experience converting experimental or research workflows into reproducible computational packages
Interested candidates kindly share your updated CV and Google Scholar profile/link to raviteja.k@zettamine.com
Thanks & Regards,
RaviTeja K
ZettaMine

Work arrangement
Yes