Remote Earth Sciences AI Task Architect

OpenTrain AI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

OpenTrain AI, Inc. is seeking a remote contractor to translate real Earth sciences workflows into terminal-based tasks for training and evaluating AI systems, requiring meaningful reasoning, coding, testing, and verifiable results.

You will design multi-step climate and geoscience tasks, process diverse environmental datasets, build reproducible terminal environments, and produce reference solutions in Python, R, Bash, Julia, or related tools.

Qualifications

• Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced technical experience in Earth Sciences or closely related fields.
• Strong programming ability in Python, R, Bash, Julia, or another scientific language.
• Experience with Linux and terminal-based computational environments.
• Advanced knowledge of Earth sciences and data processing, numerical modeling, geospatial analysis.
• Familiarity with scientific libraries including NumPy, pandas, SciPy, xarray, rasterio, GeoPandas, Cartopy, GDAL, NetCDF, HDF5, GeoTIFF.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-step tasks covering climate science, atmospheric processes, geophysics, oceanography, geology, hydrology, remote sensing, and environmental modeling.
• Prepare and process climate, weather, atmospheric, oceanographic, geological, hydrological, satellite, and other environmental datasets.
• Develop geospatial analysis, time-series processing, numerical modeling, interpolation, forecasting, remote sensing, or environmental risk tasks.
• Build reproducible terminal environments with scientific libraries, command-line tools, and required dependencies.
• Create reference solutions with Python, R, Bash, Julia, or relevant scientific software.
• Write automated tests and evaluation criteria for scientific correctness, numerical accuracy, spatial and temporal consistency, and reproducibility.
• Check coordinate reference systems, units, timestamps, missing data, uncertainty, and scientific assumptions.
• Document data sources, workflows, expected outputs, edge cases, and scientific limitations.

Skills

Earth science knowledge

Python

R

Bash

Julia

Linux

Scientific programming

Data processing

Education

PhD or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Conda

Git

CI/CD

xarray

GeoPandas

GDAL

NetCDF

Job description

OpenTrain AI, Inc. is seeking a remote contractor to translate real Earth sciences workflows into terminal-based tasks for training and evaluating AI systems, requiring meaningful reasoning, coding, testing, and verifiable results.

You will design multi-step climate and geoscience tasks, process diverse environmental datasets, build reproducible terminal environments, and produce reference solutions in Python, R, Bash, Julia, or related tools.