add a check on the job_info runtime parameters to the CI

[zingale]

this will be useful for when we start converting things over to structs

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• [ ] test suite needs to be run on this PR
• [ ] this PR will change answers in the test suite to more than roundoff level
• [ ] all newly-added functions have docstrings as per the coding conventions
• [ ] the CHANGES file has been updated, if appropriate
• [ ] if appropriate, this change is described in the docs