Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
Company: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Job Position: Astronomical Data Scientist
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Qualification:
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Astronomy, Planetary Science, Physics, or a related field.
- Experience in astronomical research or observatory scientist/support functions is required.
- Scientific data processing, pipelines, and workflows
- Use of astronomical archives for research
- Astronomical imaging and/or spectroscopic data
- Relational databases (SQL)
- Software and programming languages such as Python, MS SQL Server, or other technologies
- Familiarity with Linux operating system
- Familiarity with large data sets and associated analysis methods
- Cloud computing on platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Working with teams in an agile/scrum environment.
- Data science methods such as machine learning
- Astronomical instrumentation and observational techniques
- System configuration management (DevOps)
Job Responsibility:
Data calibration pipeline operations for JWST. Note that this position requires shift work to support day, evening, overnight, and weekend shifts during the JWST commissioning activities during the first six months after the JWST launch.
- Functioning as a subject-area expert on astronomical data, techniques, and tools to support continued software development.
- Procedure writing, testing, and maintenance.
- Trouble-shooting system and data problems in the pipeline.
- Monitoring the archive help desk to support JWST archive users