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- Faculty Positions (visiting & non-tenure) — Time limited position at a university or college. Includes teaching responsibility.
- Faculty Positions (tenure & tenure-track) — Permanent (or leading to a permanent) position at a university or college. Includes teaching responsibility.
- Pre-doctoral/Graduate Positions — Typically associated with a Fellowship or other source of funding to support those seeking a degree from an institution of higher education. May also include funding opportunities for exchange programs or other professional development.
- Post-doctoral Positions & Fellowships — Typically located at a university, college or government lab. Allows recipient to pursue independent research or research support for a specific science program defined by the employer. Is limited to a pre-determined period of time. Usually does not include teaching responsibilities.
- Science Engineering — Instrument design and development, software development, IT system support, and other project related responsibilities. Open-ended duration of employment.
- Science Management — Runs projects and programs at universities, government or private industry. Open-ended employment.
- Scientific/Technical Staff — Includes researchers at science centers, government labs, university, or private industry. May include both user support or project related work and time for individual research. Open-ended duration of employment. Usually does not include teaching. May or may not require PhD.
- Other — Any position that does not seem to fit.
Faculty Positions (visiting & non-tenure)
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Professor in Observational Cosmology | Technical University of Denmark | Copenhagen, Copenhagen | 2018/07/04 | 2018/10/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Instructor in Astronomy | Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | 2018/06/28 | 2018/07/26 | Accepting Applicants |
| PART-TIME ADJUNCT POSITION, LIBERAL STUDIES, New York University Arts and Science | New York University Arts and Science | New York, NY | 2018/06/23 | 2018/07/24 | Accepting Applicants |
| Visiting Professor at Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy, University Vienna | University of Vienna | Vienna, Austria | 2018/06/20 | 2018/07/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Lecturer | Texas State University | San Marcos, Texas | 2018/06/16 | 2018/07/21 | Accepting Applicants |
| Sabbatical Visiting Researcher | Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute | New York, New York | 2018/05/09 | 2018/06/06 | Accepting Applicants |
Faculty Positions (tenure & tenure-track)
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Near-Infrared Detector Scientist | NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center | Greenbelt, Maryland | 2018/07/14 | 2018/08/17 | Accepting Applicants |
| Faculty Position in Space-Based Instrumentation at the University of Iowa | University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa | 2018/07/14 | 2018/10/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Assistant professors at Universidad de Atacama | Universidad de Atacama | Copiapó, Atacama | 2018/07/09 | 2018/08/10 | Accepting Applicants |
| Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Astronomy | Newcastle University | Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear | 2018/06/20 | 2018/09/14 | Accepting Applicants |
| Faculty position in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics at Radboud University | Radboud University | Nijmegen, Netherlands | 2018/06/15 | 2018/08/17 | Accepting Applicants |
| Full Professor (W3) for Experimental Astroparticle Physics | Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg | Erlangen, Bavaria | 2018/06/14 | 2018/08/31 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Gravity of Fundamental Astrophysics Research | Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics | Toronto, Ontario | 2018/06/14 | 2018/07/18 | Accepting Applicants |
| Tenure Track Assistant Professor at Chalmers | Chalmers University of Technology | Gothenburg, - | 2018/06/11 | 2018/08/12 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Exoplanet Characterisation | Cardiff University | Cardiff, Wales | 2018/06/09 | 2018/08/08 | Accepting Applicants |
Post-doctoral Positions & Fellowships
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIPPO Multi-Wavelength Data Fusion and Machine Learning for Radio Continuum Surveys | University of the Western Cape | Cape Town, Western Province | 2018/07/19 | 2018/08/17 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Stellar Astrophysics | Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | 2018/07/18 | 2018/09/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Scientist (Exoplanet Speckle Imaging Group) | Bay Area Environmental Research Institute | Moffett Field, CA | 2018/07/18 | 2018/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral position in stellar and exoplanetary research | University of Vienna | Vienna, W | 2018/07/18 | 2018/08/26 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral position at Paris Observatory (LESIA) on Cepheids and the calibration of the extragalactic distance ladder | Paris Observatory | Meudon, Ile-de-France | 2018/07/13 | 2018/08/12 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Scholar | University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | 2018/07/13 | 2018/09/08 | Accepting Applicants |
| One Postdoctoral Contract Big Data Science in Astronomy 2018 | INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS | LA LAGUNA, SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE | 2018/07/11 | 2018/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| One Postodoctoral Contract Galaxy Protocluster Project 2018 | INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS | LA LAGUNA, SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE | 2018/07/11 | 2018/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Observational Astronomy | Universidad de La Serena | La Serena, Coquimbo | 2018/07/09 | 2018/08/06 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Scholar | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | 2018/07/07 | 2018/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Position in Instrumentation for mm/submm Astronomy/Cosmology | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | 2018/07/07 | 2018/09/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Galaxy Cluster Physics | University of Hull | Hull, Yorkshire | 2018/07/06 | 2018/08/16 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-Doctoral Research Position Announcement: EACOA and EAO Fellowshiops 2019 | East Asian Core Observatories Association (EACOA) | Beijing , Beijing | 2018/07/04 | 2018/11/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Senior Research Fellow | Curtin University | Perth, Western Australia | 2018/07/03 | 2018/07/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship in Planetary Astronomy | Heising-Simons Foundation | Los Altos, California | 2018/07/02 | 2018/10/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoctoral researcher in stellar rotation and activity | Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) | Potsdam, Brandenburg | 2018/06/30 | 2018/08/20 | Accepting Applicants |
| One Postdoctoral Contract Groundbird 2018 | INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS | LA LAGUNA, SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE | 2018/06/27 | 2018/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate in weak lensing cosmology | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | 2018/06/27 | 2018/09/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis | University of Hull | Hull, Yorkshire | 2018/06/27 | 2018/08/16 | Accepting Applicants |
| Very Long Baseline Postdoctoral Scientist Lecturer in Radio Astronomy | University of Tasmania | Hobart, Tasmania | 2018/06/26 | 2018/07/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| 2+2-year postdoctoral position in observational asteroseismology combining TESS, Gaia, and Sloan SDSS data | Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven | Leuven, - | 2018/06/26 | 2018/09/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral CATA-UC Fellowships 2018 | PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE | Santiago, Metropolitana | 2018/06/26 | 2018/08/03 | Accepting Applicants |
| SARChI Postdoctoral Fellow in Neutral Hydrogen Radio Interferometry, University of Cape Town | University of Cape Town | Cape Town, WC | 2018/06/22 | 2018/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the Areas of Observational, Theoretical, Computational Astrophysics and Instrumentation | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | Santiago, RM | 2018/06/19 | 2018/07/27 | Accepting Applicants |
| One postdoctoral Contract Cosmology 2018 | INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS | LA LAGUNA, SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE | 2018/06/16 | 2018/07/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Fellowships | Square Kilometre Array South Africa | Pinelands Capetown , Western Cape | 2018/06/15 | 2018/09/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Junior Telescope Scientist | ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy | Dwingeloo, Drenthe | 2018/06/12 | 2018/08/19 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Positions in Observation, Theory, or Instrumentation | The Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) | Taipei, Taiwan | 2018/06/01 | 2018/07/31 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Research Associate In Weak Lensing Cosmology | University College London | Dorking, Surrey | 2018/05/31 | 2018/07/16 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoc in EM counterpart search of GWs at Penn State | Penn State University | University Park, PA | 2018/05/15 | 2018/07/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| SOFIA Postdoctoral Fellow (686-500) | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Moffett Field, CA | 2018/05/11 | 2018/11/19 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoctoral research position on pulsars | Wuhan University | Wuhan, Hubei | 2018/04/27 | 2018/07/01 | Accepting Applicants |
Pre-doctoral/Graduate Positions
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhD position on Dwarf Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, EPFL, Swizerland | Lausanne, VD | 2018/07/06 | 2018/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| PhD opportunities at the University of Melbourne | The University of Melbourne | Melbourne, VIC | 2018/06/18 | 2018/08/01 | Accepting Applicants |
Science Engineering
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Robotic Telescope - Systems Engineer | Liverpool John Moores Univeristy | Liverpool, Merseyside | 2018/07/03 | 2018/07/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Support Specialist II | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | 2018/07/03 | 2018/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Software Engineer | Large Binocular Telescope Observatory | Tucson, Arizona | 2018/06/20 | 2018/07/20 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Instrument Operator (719-500) | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Palmdale, CA | 2018/05/11 | 2018/11/19 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| FSI Maintenance Engineer (702-500) | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Palmdale, CA | 2018/05/11 | 2018/11/19 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Telescope Operator (742-500) | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Palmdale, CA | 2018/05/11 | 2018/11/19 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Science Management
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telescope & Site Software Manager | AURA/LSST | Tucson, AZ | 2018/07/06 | 2018/08/05 | Accepting Applicants |
| Director of Mid-Scale Observatories (MSO) | NCOA | Tucson, AZ | 2018/06/22 | 2018/07/25 | Accepting Applicants |
| Deputy Director | University of California Observatories | Santa Cruz, California | 2018/05/21 | 2018/08/01 | Accepting Applicants |
Scientific/Technical Staff
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project scientist in the Division for submm/FIR Technologies at the MPIfR | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy | Bonn, NRW | 2018/07/14 | 2018/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| TO-Telescope Operator | University of TX - McDonald Obsv | McDonald Observatory, TX | 2018/07/10 | 2018/08/10 | Accepting Applicants |
| Associate Astronomer / Scientist | AURA/NSO | Makawao, HI | 2018/07/07 | 2018/08/04 | Accepting Applicants |
| X-ray Research and Instrumentation Astrophysicist | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | Huntsville, AL | 2018/07/04 | 2018/08/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Astronomer | U.S. Naval Observatory | Flagstaff, AZ | 2018/07/01 | 2018/07/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Program Manager, Optical Instrumentation | Macquarie University | Sydney, New South Wales | 2018/06/30 | 2018/07/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| Senior Staff Astronomer at the IRAM 30-meter telescope | IRAM | Granada, Granada | 2018/06/16 | 2018/08/19 | Accepting Applicants |
| Mission Director (759-500) | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Palmdale, CA | 2018/05/11 | 2018/11/19 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Pipeline Data Scientist (704-500) | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Moffett Field, CA | 2018/05/11 | 2018/11/19 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Other
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astronomer / Instrument Project Scientist | European Southern Observatory | Garching bei München, Bavaria | 2018/06/07 | 2018/07/31 | Accepting Applicants |