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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research Fellow in Theoretical and Numerical Astrophysics | University of Sussex | Brighton, Sussex | 2019/02/09 | 2019/03/18 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Physics Instructor/Planetarium Manager | TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY | STEPHENVILLE, Texas | 2019/01/25 | 2019/02/22 | Accepting Applicants |
| Assistant/Associate Research Professor - X ray Analysis of Transient Sources | Penn State University | University Park, PA | 2018/12/21 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
Faculty Positions (tenure & tenure-track)
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Professor for Multi-wavelength Astrophysics (Salary Scale W3) | Ruhr-Universität Bochum | Bochum, NRW | 2019/02/15 | 2019/03/27 | Accepting Applicants |
| Physics/Astronomy Assistant Professor | American River College | Sacramento, CA | 2019/02/14 | 2019/03/14 | Accepting Applicants |
| Assistant/Associate Professor | United Arab Emirates University | Al Ain, Abu Dhabi | 2019/02/08 | 2019/06/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Associate Professor, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan | Mitaka, Tokyo | 2019/02/05 | 2019/03/29 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Assistant/Associate Professor in Astronomy/Space Science | Sultan Qaboos University | Muscat, Muscat | 2019/02/04 | 2019/03/04 | Accepting Applicants |
| Faculty positions at IUCAA, Pune | Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics | Pune, Maharashtra | 2019/02/01 | 2019/03/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Head of Engineering | University of Manchester | Manchester, Manchester | 2019/01/29 | 2019/02/26 | Accepting Applicants |
| Faculty Positions on the Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST), University of Science and Technology of China | University of Science and Technology of China | Hefei, Anhui | 2019/01/26 | 2019/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Astronomy and Astrophysics | University of Canterbury | Christchurch, New Zealand | 2019/01/25 | 2019/03/03 | Accepting Applicants |
| Faculty Positions (Tenure and Tenure track) | South-Western Institute For Astronomy Research at Yunnan University(SWIFAR-YNU) | Kunming, Yunnan | 2019/01/16 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Faculty Positions in Astronomy, University of Science and Technology of China | University of Science and Technology of China | Hefei, Anhui | 2019/01/15 | 2019/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| CMB Instrumentation Faculty Positions at University of Science and Technology of China | University of Science and Technology of China | Hefei, Anhui | 2019/01/15 | 2019/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Professor in Gravitational Wave Observations | Ghent University | Gent, N/A | 2019/01/15 | 2019/02/26 | Accepting Applicants |
| Associate Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor, tenure track) in observations and characterisation of exoplanets | Lund University | Lund, Scania | 2019/01/03 | 2019/02/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| Curtis T. Vaughan Jr. Centennial Chair in Astronomy | The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | 2018/12/20 | 2019/02/18 | Accepting Applicants |
Post-doctoral Positions & Fellowships
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning and Citizen Science Postdoctoral Research Associate | The Open University | Milton Keynes, UK | 2019/02/20 | 2019/03/22 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| KIAA Postdoctoral Research Position in Quasars and Galaxy Evolution | KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS, PEKING UNIVERSITY | Beijing, Beijing | 2019/02/15 | 2019/03/29 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-doctoral Fellow in Astrophysics/Astronomy in the Department of Physics | The University of Hong Kong | Pokfulam, HKG | 2019/02/14 | 2019/03/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-doctoral position on extragalactic surveys with SPICA | Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) | Bologna, BO | 2019/02/14 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Literature and Culture | Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | 2019/02/13 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant I/II | The University of Alabama in Huntsville | Huntsville, AL | 2019/02/12 | 2019/03/29 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Researcher (Physics and Astronomy: High Resolution Imaging of Brown Dwarfs) | Bucknell University | Lewisburg, Pennsylvania | 2019/02/12 | 2019/03/13 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Galaxy Evolution at Infrared and Submm Wavelengths | University of Oxford | Oxford, Oxfordshire | 2019/02/12 | 2019/03/18 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral position in Theoretical Computational Astrophysics | Osaka University | Toyonaka, Osaka | 2019/02/11 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Fellowship in radioastronomical follow-up of gravitational wave sources | University of Hamburg | Hamburg, Hamburg | 2019/02/11 | 2019/03/11 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoctoral Position in Galactic (Sub)millimeter Astronomy | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy | Bonn, NRW | 2019/02/08 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Scholar | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | 2019/02/07 | 2019/03/07 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-Doctoral position in Exoplanetary Science | UNSW Sydney | Sydney, New South Wales | 2019/02/05 | 2019/03/05 | Accepting Applicants |
| Astrophysicist (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow) | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Cambridge, MA | 2019/02/01 | 2019/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| HIRAX Postdoctoral Fellowships in Radio Astronomy and Instrumentation | University of KwaZulu-Natal | Durban, KwaZulu-Natal | 2019/02/01 | 2019/03/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoc on Stellar Activity | Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) | Sao Paulo, SP | 2019/01/31 | 2019/03/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Associate in Observing Proto-Planetary Discs | Cardiff University | Cardiff, Wales | 2019/01/30 | 2019/03/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoc in time-domain and/or exoplanetary/substellar astronomy | The University of Western Ontario | London, Ontario | 2019/01/30 | 2019/03/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoc Research Associate | University of New South Wales | Sydney, NSW | 2019/01/29 | 2019/02/26 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate in Planet Formation | Observatoire Côte d'Azur | NICE, France | 2019/01/29 | 2019/02/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-Doctoral Associate, Center for Space Sciences – Research Institute, NYU Abu Dhabi | New York University Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi | 2019/01/29 | 2019/02/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral position in observational astrochemistry at the Niels Bohr Institute | Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen | Copenhagen, Denmark | 2019/01/29 | 2019/02/28 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoctoral Fellowships on the Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST), University of Science and Technology of China | University of Science and Technology of China | Hefei, Anhui | 2019/01/26 | 2019/03/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Researcher | University of Oklahoma - Norman | Norman, Oklahoma | 2019/01/26 | 2019/02/23 | Accepting Applicants |
| Two postdoctoral positions on planet formation in Chile. Theory and observations | Universidad de Valparaiso and Pontificia Universidad Católica | Valparaiso and Santiago, Valparaiso and Santiago | 2019/01/25 | 2019/02/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral position in stellar pops or adaptive optics | UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 2019/01/25 | 2019/03/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Position in White Dwarf Astrophysics | University of Warwick | Coventry, Warwickshire | 2019/01/25 | 2019/02/24 | Accepting Applicants |
| Exoplanets Postdoctoral research positions in Geneva | University of Geneva | Versoix, Geneva | 2019/01/23 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Scholar in Extragalactic Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz | University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA | 2019/01/23 | 2019/02/22 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Position in galaxy formation and cosmology | National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Beijing, Beijing | 2019/01/23 | 2019/04/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral position in galaxy formation and reionization | University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | 2019/01/23 | 2019/02/20 | Accepting Applicants |
| One Postdoctoral Contract Space IR Missions I 2019 | INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS | LA LAGUNA, SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE | 2019/01/22 | 2019/02/20 | Accepting Applicants |
| One Postdoctoral Contract Space IR Missions II 2019 | INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS | LA LAGUNA, SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE | 2019/01/22 | 2019/02/20 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate in Planet Formation | University of Tuebingen | Tuebingen, Baden-Wurttemberg | 2019/01/18 | 2019/02/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| Columbus Prize Postdoctoral Fellow | The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | 2019/01/17 | 2019/02/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanet Detection and Characterization Ref. 19-01 | Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Planet and Star Formation Department, Heidelberg, Germany AND Institute for Astrophysics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile | Heidelberg, Germany and Santiago de Chile, BW | 2019/01/16 | 2019/02/22 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Position in Gamma-Ray Astrophysics | Clemson University | Clemson, SC | 2019/01/16 | 2019/02/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral position in observational studies of regions of massive star formation at the University of Maryland, College Park | University of Maryland | College Park, MD | 2019/01/15 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| CMB Instrumentation Postdoctoral Fellowships at University of Science and Technology of China | University of Science and Technology of China | Hefei, Anhui | 2019/01/15 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Solar Physics Postdoctoral Fellow – ID# 19025 | Institute for Astronomy | Pukalani, Hawaii | 2019/01/15 | 2019/02/15 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoctoral Fellowships on the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) Project, University of Science and Technology of China | University of Science and Technology of China | Hefei, Anhui | 2019/01/15 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Positions | University of Portsmouth | Portsmouth, Hampshire | 2019/01/15 | 2019/02/12 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Fellowships in Astronomy, University of Science and Technology of China | University of Science and Technology of China | Hefei, Anhui | 2019/01/15 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Position in Disk and Planet Formation Theory | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Las Vegas, NV | 2019/01/09 | 2019/02/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Associate in theoretical and numerical star formation | Cardiff University | Cardiff, Wales | 2019/01/08 | 2019/02/18 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-doctoral Positions and Fellowships | Xiamen University | Xiamen, Fujian | 2019/01/04 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Scientist (Molecular Astrophysics) | Bay Area Environmental Research Institute | Moffett Field, CA | 2019/01/03 | 2019/02/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Visiting Associate Scientist (SOFIA Postdoctoral Fellow) | Universities Space Research Association | Moffett Field, California | 2019/01/03 | 2019/05/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| The John N. Bahcall Public Policy Fellowship | The American Astronomical Society | Washington, DC | 2018/12/31 | 2019/03/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| NASA Postdoctoral Program - Application Deadline March 1, 2019 | NASA / Universities Space Research Association | Multiple Locations, MD | 2018/12/04 | 2019/03/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Astrophysics of Star Formation | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Livermore, CA | 2018/11/06 | 2019/03/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Pre-doctoral/Graduate Positions
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhD student in Observational Cosmology | Stockholm University | Stockholm, Stockholm | 2019/02/12 | 2019/03/12 | Accepting Applicants |
| PhD in X-ray Astrophysics | SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research | Utrecht, Utrecht | 2019/02/02 | 2019/03/04 | Accepting Applicants |
| PhD program at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille | Marseille, Bouches du Rhone | 2019/02/01 | 2019/04/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| PhD scholarships in astrophysics at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, UWA | International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia | Crawley, Perth, Western Australia | 2019/02/01 | 2019/03/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| PhD positions at Armagh Observatory & Planetarium | Armagh Observatory & Planetarium | Armagh, Armagh | 2019/01/31 | 2019/02/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| Internship Science Journalism of the German popular astronomy magazine "Sterne und Weltraum" | Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft mbH | Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg | 2019/01/29 | 2019/02/28 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| PhD position in Indirect Dark Matter searches at Tubingen University | Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics | Tubingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg | 2019/01/28 | 2019/02/28 | Accepting Applicants |
Science Engineering
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 Control System Technical Project Manager | TMT International Observatory, LLC | Pasadena, California | 2019/02/12 | 2019/03/12 | Accepting Applicants |
| Systems Engineering Group Leader | TMT International Observatory LLC | Pasadena, CA | 2019/02/12 | 2019/03/12 | Accepting Applicants |
| Science Instruments Group Leader | TMT International Observatory, LLC | Pasadena, CA | 2019/02/12 | 2019/03/12 | Accepting Applicants |
| Detector Engineer | Australian National University | Stomlo, Australian Capital Territory | 2019/02/08 | 2019/03/08 | Accepting Applicants |
| Image Processing Engineer | Spaceflight Industries, Inc | Seattle, WA | 2019/02/08 | 2019/03/08 | Accepting Applicants |
| Telescope Mechanical Engineer | Las Campanas Observatory | La Serena, Coquimbo | 2019/02/02 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-Bac Positions in Instrument Modeling and Atmospheric Modeling for Exoplanet Spectroscopy | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Greenbelt, MD | 2019/02/01 | 2019/03/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Senior Project Manager | Science & Technology Facilities Council | Edinburgh, Scotland | 2019/01/23 | 2019/02/26 | Accepting Applicants |
| Senior Project Manager | Science & Technology Facilities Council | Edinburgh, Scotland | 2019/01/23 | 2019/02/26 | Accepting Applicants |
| Associate Mission Operations Specialist (Instrument Operator) | Universities Space Research Association | Palmdale, California | 2019/01/03 | 2019/05/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Associate Mission Operations Specialist (Telescope Operator) | Universities Space Research Association | Palmdale, California | 2019/01/03 | 2019/05/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Science Management
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telescope Manager | AURA/Gemini | La Serena, Chile | 2019/02/01 | 2019/03/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Director of Operations | Square Kilometre Array Organisation | Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire | 2019/01/31 | 2019/02/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| Tess Science Operations Center Manager | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | 2019/01/10 | 2019/02/26 | Accepting Applicants |
Scientific/Technical Staff
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astrophysicist (Research Assistant) | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2019/02/15 | 2019/03/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Scientist - Observational Radio Astronomy | CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science | Epping, NSW | 2019/02/14 | 2019/04/04 | Accepting Applicants |
| Computational Scientist 3 | Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | 2019/02/07 | 2020/02/05 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post Doctoral Research Associate | AURA/NSO | Boulder, CO | 2019/02/06 | 2019/03/22 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post Doctoral Research Associate | AURA/NSO | Boulder, CO | 2019/02/06 | 2019/03/22 | Accepting Applicants |
| Software Engineer | Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) | Dwingeloo, Drenthe | 2019/02/06 | 2019/03/06 | Accepting Applicants |
| Staff Scientist | AURA/NOAO | Tucson, AZ | 2019/02/05 | 2019/03/05 | Accepting Applicants |
| Electrical Engineer (a multi-disciplined engineering position) | Large Binocular Telescope Observatory | Tucson, Arizona | 2019/02/05 | 2019/03/23 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Adaptive Optics - Post Doctoral Research Associate | AURA/NSO | Boulder, CO | 2019/02/02 | 2019/03/02 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Scientist in Astrophysics | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, MA | 2019/01/25 | 2019/03/08 | Accepting Applicants |
| Tenure-track Astroparticle Physicist | Humboldt University of Berlin | Berlin, Berlin | 2019/01/13 | 2019/02/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| Gemini/ HST Cluster Project (GCP) Intern | AURA/Gemini | Hilo, HI | 2019/01/12 | 2019/02/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| TESS Support Scientist | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | 2019/01/10 | 2019/02/26 | Accepting Applicants |
| Mission Operations Controller (Mission Director) | Universities Space Research Association | Palmdale, California | 2019/01/03 | 2019/05/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Manager, Mission Operations Controller (Mission Director Manager) | Universities Space Research Association | Palmdale, California | 2019/01/03 | 2019/05/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Other
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Director | National Science Foundation | Alexandria, VA | 2019/02/19 | 2019/04/19 | Accepting Applicants |
| Informal Education Specialist II- #026458 | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, MD | 2019/02/09 | 2019/03/09 | Accepting Applicants |
| Keck Visiting Scholar | W. M. Keck Observatory | Kamuela, HI | 2019/02/05 | 2019/04/05 | Accepting Applicants |
| Education & Outreach Scientist- #026459 | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, MD | 2019/02/01 | 2019/03/01 | Accepting Applicants |