Remote Computational Science AI Challenge Designer (Contract)

LinkedIn; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

LinkedIn seeks a computational science expert to join as a project consultant on a contract basis, focusing on designing and evaluating terminal-based scientific tasks for AI systems. You will translate scientific requirements into precise tasks, build containerized environments with Docker, and implement reference solutions in scientific programming languages.

This role emphasizes strong programming ability, automated testing, and adversarial reasoning to ensure robust evaluation criteria.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience or advanced research in a computational field.
• Deep expertise in at least one relevant scientific domain such as chemistry, biology/genomics, physics, mathematics, robotics, linguistics or Earth sciences.
• Strong hands-on programming ability to implement problems end-to-end.
• Experience with computational modeling, simulation, or genomics/bioinformatics.
• Strong debugging and automated testing ability.
• Familiarity with Git and GitHub workflows.
• Experience building or working with Docker-based environments.

Responsibilities

• Design technically difficult but fair computational problems grounded in their specialty.
• Translate scientific requirements into precise, self-contained task specifications.
• Build reproducible, containerized task environments using Docker.
• Implement a complete and correct reference solution using appropriate scientific programming languages.
• Create hidden automated tests or verifiers to evaluate correctness.
• Account for edge cases, numerical behavior, constraints, and plausible but incorrect approaches.
• Reason adversarially about how an AI agent might produce valid-looking but incorrect results.
• Validate that the reference solution passes while the baseline environment does not.

Skills

Hands-on programming

Adversarial reasoning

Edge case analysis

Scientific computing

Automated testing

Education

PhD in a relevant field

MS with substantial computational work

Tools

Docker

Git / GitHub workflows

Containerization concepts

Job description

LinkedIn seeks a computational science expert to join as a project consultant on a contract basis, focusing on designing and evaluating terminal-based scientific tasks for AI systems. You will translate scientific requirements into precise tasks, build containerized environments with Docker, and implement reference solutions in scientific programming languages.

This role emphasizes strong programming ability, automated testing, and adversarial reasoning to ensure robust evaluation criteria.