Pod lead

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Greetings from ZettaMine!!!

Freelancing Opportunity: We are hiring a Pod Lead – Physics (Terminal Bench Science) for a short-term Frontier AI Research, Computational Physics & Scientific Evaluation project across the following locations.

Eligible Locations: 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | 🇧🇷 Brazil | 🇨🇴 Colombia | 🇪🇬 Egypt | 🇬🇭 Ghana | 🇮🇳 India | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | 🇹🇷 Turkey

Role: Pod Lead – Physics (Terminal Bench Science)

Educational Eligibility: PhD, postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced experience in Physics.

Mode: Remote

Start: Immediate (expected to start next week)

Engagement Type: Short-Term Contract (3 weeks)

Mandatory Eligibility Criteria:

Technical Qualification:

• PhD, postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced experience in Physics.
• Strong programming skills in Python, C/C++, Julia, or Fortran, with proficiency in Linux.
• Hands-on experience in computational physics, physics simulations, or physics data analysis.
• Proven experience reviewing code, scientific analyses, computational results, or research outputs.
• Strong understanding of physical principles, numerical methods, dimensional consistency, conservation laws, and statistical uncertainty.
• Ability to validate simulation results, numerical convergence, computational accuracy, and scientific reproducibility.
• Strong analytical skills to identify technical errors, incorrect assumptions, numerical issues, and unreliable evaluation methods.
• Experience mentoring or leading small technical or research teams.
• Excellent written communication skills for providing precise, constructive technical feedback.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with tools such as QuTiP, Qiskit, Kwant, ITensor, ROOT, Geant4, Astropy, Dedalus, or MEEP.
• Familiarity with Docker, Git, CI systems, and automated testing.
• Experience designing scientific benchmarks or simulation-based evaluations.

Availability:

• Minimum 40 hours per week.
• Availability for at least 8 hours per day, with a minimum of 4 hours of overlap with PST business hours.
• Willingness to work on a 3-week contractor assignment.
• Please note: This is a contract assignment with no medical or paid leave benefits.

What You'll Work On:

• Lead and mentor a pod of approximately 5–10 technical trainers developing realistic, terminal-based scientific tasks for the Terminal Bench Science initiative.
• Review tasks end to end, including problem statements, datasets, simulation inputs, computational environments, reference solutions, and automated tests.
• Ensure tasks reflect authentic physics workflows and require meaningful, multi-step scientific reasoning.
• Validate physical correctness, dimensional consistency, unit systems, conservation laws, symmetries, numerical convergence, and statistical treatment of uncertainties.
• Verify that software tools, libraries, dependencies, and computational environments are properly configured and reproducible.
• Ensure numerical tolerances account for legitimate stochastic and computational variations without accepting physically incorrect results.
• Review automated graders to ensure they evaluate physical observables, fitted parameters, uncertainties, and physical invariants rather than output formatting alone.
• Identify hard-coded outputs, flawed assumptions, unreliable tests, and opportunities to bypass scientific computation.
• Provide actionable written feedback, track revisions, and ensure quality issues are resolved before task approval.
• Onboard and mentor trainers, allocate tasks, monitor quality and productivity, and resolve technical blockers.
• Maintain documentation covering task guidelines, recurring issues, quality standards, and exemplary scientific tasks.

Interested Candidates Please share your updated CV and LinkedIn profile at vyshnavi.e@zettamine.com.

Thanks & Regards,

Vyshnavi E

ZettaMine