: Pod Lead – Civil & Structural Engineering

Contract Duration: 4 Weeks

Budget: $14 per hour

Team Size: 5–10 Trainers

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Civil or Structural Engineering expert to lead a pod of trainers developing realistic, terminal-based technical tasks for Terminal Bench Science. The role involves reviewing tasks for engineering accuracy, reproducibility, and grader reliability while mentoring trainers to maintain high-quality standards.

Reporting To: Civil & Structural Engineering Team Lead

Key Responsibilities

- Review engineering tasks, including problem statements, structural and geotechnical models, load cases, simulation data, computational environments, reference solutions, and automated tests.
- Validate tasks involving structural analysis, finite-element methods (FEA), earthquake and wind engineering, structural dynamics, geotechnical modeling, hydraulics, hydrology, transportation, and infrastructure systems.
- Ensure tasks require genuine multi-step engineering reasoning and reflect realistic engineering workflows.
- Verify units, equilibrium, boundary conditions, load combinations, design codes, numerical stability, convergence, and safety factors.
- Validate computational models, solvers, dependencies, and simulation results for technical correctness and reproducibility.
- Review automated graders for meaningful engineering outputs,



including forces, deflections, drifts, settlements, factors of safety, flow rates, and structural performance.
- Identify technical errors, unrealistic assumptions, incorrect tolerances, and opportunities to bypass engineering analysis.
- Provide actionable feedback and track task revisions through completion.
- Mentor trainers, allocate work, monitor quality and productivity, and resolve technical blockers.
- Maintain technical documentation and quality standards across engineering task development.

Required Qualifications

- Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced technical experience in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Solid programming skills in Python, C/C++, Julia, Fortran, or MATLAB/Octave.
- Proficiency in Linux environments.
- Hands-on expertise in at least one major area: structural analysis, FEA, earthquake engineering, geotechnical modeling, or hydraulic/hydrological modeling.
- Strong understanding of engineering principles, numerical methods, simulation workflows, and model validation.
- Working knowledge of engineering design standards such as ASCE 7, ACI, AISC, Eurocodes, or IS codes.
- Experience reviewing complex technical work, engineering simulations, research outputs

📌 Civil Engineer (India)
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📍 India