UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA: Senior Scientist, Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy

53 School of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy

Startdate: 01.06.2024 | Working hours: 40 | Collective bargaining settlement: §48 VwGr. B1 lit. b (postdoc)

Restricted till: everlasting

Reference no.: 2344

Among the many many causes to research and train on the College of Vienna there may be one particularly, which has satisfied round 7,500 tutorial employees members up to now. They see themselves as personalities who want house for steady striving for high worldwide research and scientific excellence. On the similar time they take pleasure in help and liberties that aren’t a given at different establishments. Does that sound like one thing for you?

Your working place:

The Division of Astrophysics with at present round 90 members is a part of the School of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy on the College of Vienna.

The A*-Vienna research group is searching for a extremely motivated and proficient postdoctoral researcher. The place is nominally set for 8 years, ideally by 1 Jun 2024.

In distinctive circumstances the college should contemplate providing a everlasting contract to the profitable candidate. For instance candidates with in depth prior data of the software program calls for of the ELT tasks. The College retains the proper to be the only decision-maker concerning affords of everlasting contracts.

Your future duties:

We search an impressive candidate to co-manage the event and commissioning of the information discount software program pipeline for the ELT first-generation devices METIS, MICADO, and MOSAIC.

Your duties will embody:

• Making design and implementation decisions for the consortia which have an effect on the ultimate scientific efficiency of the devices knowledge discount software program,
• Implementing the software program skeleton, practical code, and producing mock knowledge for testing functions
• Increasing and sustaining the instrument knowledge simulator software program
• Delegating and managing essential software development duties throughout the group
• Managing and sustaining the consortium inside interfaces as regards to the software program and meta-data
• Guaranteeing ample quality control of the software program
• Taking duty for guaranteeing that each one software program meets the top-level-requirements as acknowledged by each ESO and the consorta
• Being chargeable for well timed supply of the software program to the consortia and to ESO
• Creating and sustaining a number of channels of communication throughout the consortia and with the ESO software program group to make sure a easy stream of data between all events

You’ll actively take part in research, teaching & administration, which suggests:

• You’re concerned in and main research tasks in Astrophysics.
• You publish in internationally famend journals and current at worldwide conferences.
• You (co-)supervise Bachelor, Grasp and PhD college students in Astronomy.
• You maintain programs independently throughout the scope of the provisions of the collective bargaining settlement.
• You tackle administrative duties in research and teaching.

Your profile:

• Doctoral/PhD diploma in astronomy/astrophysics with affinity for programming, or in computer science/utilized arithmetic with affinity for astronomy/astrophysics
• Glorious command of written and spoken English
• Glorious skills to work in a group and glorious communication skills
• Not less than 5 years of expertise working with infrared astronomical instrumentation
• Expertise with main the event of software program for the ESO infrastructure
• Prior expertise working with at the very least one ELT/VLT instrument consortium
• In-depth data of the ESO pipeline infrastructure (e.g. EsoRex, CPL, HDRL, EDPS)
• Glorious programming expertise within the accepted ESO languages (C, Python)
• An skilled person of version-control techniques and industry-standard software development  instruments (e.g. Github, Pytest, ReadTheDocs, and so forth)

These further qualities are extremely fascinating:

• A watch for element and the drive to take care of right code growth practices
• Mission management expertise
• Supervision and teaching expertise
• Presentation expertise in a global setting

What we provide:

Inspiring working environment: You’ll have the chance to work inside a devoted group on forefront science, whereas making the most of the worldwide setting within the Division of Astrophysics (https://astro.univie.ac.at/en/). We now have privileged entry to the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC; https://vsc.ac.at/) super-computing facility. As a member state of ESO (https://www.eso.org/) and ESA (https://www.esa.int/), Austria has entry to their first-class observing amenities.

Good public transport connections: Your working place, the College Observatory, is positioned in the midst of the pure monument Observatory Park within the vigorous metropolis of Vienna with excellent public transport.

Work-life steadiness: Our workers take pleasure in versatile working hours, distant/hybrid and/or part-time work, upon settlement.

Inner additional coaching & teaching: Alternative to deepen your expertise on an ongoing foundation. There are over 600 programs to select from – freed from cost.

Honest wage: A fundamental gross wage of EUR 4,752.30 per thirty days and 14 instances a 12 months.

Equal alternatives for everybody: We stay up for numerous personalities within the group!

Are you ?

Please put together your software as a single PDF file that features a motivation letter, a curriculum vitae (with an inventory of publications and displays), an announcement of research pursuits (most of three pages), and call particulars of three individuals who can present a letter of advice.

When you have any questions, please contact:

Kieran Leschinski

kieran.leschinski@univie.ac.at

We stay up for new personalities in our group! 

The College of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment coverage and attaches nice significance to equal alternatives, the development of ladies and variety. We lay particular emphasis on growing the variety of ladies in senior and in tutorial positions among the many tutorial and common college employees and due to this fact expressly encourage certified ladies to use. Given equal {qualifications}, choice shall be given to feminine candidates.

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​Software deadline: 05/09/2024 

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