Scientific Computing Expert, Physical Sciences - $300/Approved Task
About this role
About Turing
Turing is one of the world's leading AGI infrastructure companies, working with frontier AI labs to accelerate model development through high-quality training data, evaluations, and engineering talent.
Engagement Details
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
About the Role
We are seeking Physical Sciences experts to develop realistic, terminal-based scientific tasks for Terminal Bench Science. You will translate authentic physics, chemistry, materials science, astronomy, and computational science workflows into reproducible benchmark environments. The role involves creating scientific inputs, computational models, executable solutions, automated tests, and objective grading criteria, helping evaluate whether AI agents can reason through scientific problems, operate command-line tools, debug calculations, and produce reliable scientific artifacts.
What You Will Do
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.
What We Are Looking For
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 scientific programming language.
Experience working in Linux or terminal-based environments.
Experience with numerical methods, scientific modeling, simulations, or quantitative data analysis.
Ability to create and validate computational scientific workflows independently.
Key skills
Details
- Pay: Shared during the application process
- Company: Turing
- Location: Remote
- Eligible locations: Worldwide (no restriction)
- Platform: Turing
Frequently asked questions
How much does the Scientific Computing Expert, Physical Sciences - $300/Approved Task role pay?
Turing does not publish a pay rate for this Scientific Computing Expert, Physical Sciences - $300/Approved Task position. Pay is shared during the application process and depends on your experience and the scope of the work.
Is the Scientific Computing Expert, Physical Sciences - $300/Approved Task role remote, and can I work from home?
Yes. Turing lists this Scientific Computing Expert, Physical Sciences - $300/Approved Task position as fully remote, so you can work from home or anywhere with a reliable computer and internet connection.
Is Scientific Computing Expert, Physical Sciences - $300/Approved Task full time or part time?
Turing lists this as a contractor remote role. Full details are in the role description above.
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