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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)
Faculty Positions (tenure & tenure-track)
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer equivalent), National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) | Mitaka, Tokyo | 2020/07/13 | 2020/09/11 | Accepting Applicants |
| Full or associate professor in Theoretical Planetology | University of Bern | Bern, 3012 | 2020/07/13 | 2020/10/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Astronomer / Instrument Project Scientist | European Southern Observatory (ESO) | Garching, Deutschland | 2020/06/25 | 2020/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Tenure-track positions in astrophysics at Zhejiang University | Zhejiang University | Hangzhou, Zhejiang | 2020/06/20 | 2021/07/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| RE-ADVERTISEMENT: Associate Professor in theoretical cosmology with focus on numerical studies of the cosmic microwave background, large scale structure, and the early Universe | Aarhus University | Aarhus, Aarhus | 2020/06/12 | 2020/09/01 | Accepting Applicants |
Post-doctoral Positions & Fellowships
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two postdoctoral positions in supernova and kilonova research | Stockholm University | Stockholm, Stockholm | 2020/08/07 | 2020/09/21 | Accepting Applicants |
| James Webb Space Telescope Postdoctoral Fellowships at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center | NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center | Greenbelt, MD | 2020/08/07 | 2020/11/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| NASA Postdoctoral Program - Application Deadline November 1, 2020 | NASA / Universities Space Research Association | Multiple Locations, MD | 2020/08/07 | 2020/11/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoctoral positions on fast radio bursts and other fast radio transients | ASTRON | Dwingeloo, Drenthe | 2020/08/06 | 2020/09/03 | Accepting Applicants |
| Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Fellowships Available for 2021–2022 | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | 2020/08/06 | 2020/10/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Beecroft Fellow | University of Oxford | Oxford, Oxfordshire | 2020/08/06 | 2020/11/20 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Position in Pulsar Searching and Einstein@Home | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI | 2020/08/05 | 2021/01/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Prize Fellowships in Experimental Physics or Astrophysics | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | 2020/08/03 | 2020/11/08 | Accepting Applicants |
| 2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the Areas of Observational, Theoretical, Computational Astrophysics and Instrumentation | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | Santiago, RM | 2020/08/03 | 2020/09/04 | Accepting Applicants |
| Burke Fellowships in Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | 2020/08/03 | 2020/11/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Researcher or Senior Postdoctoral Researcher - Time-domain, multimessenger astrophysics | Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge , Louisiana | 2020/08/01 | 2020/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| ASTRO 3D Postdoctoral Research Associate | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Victoria | 2020/08/01 | 2020/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Positions in (Sub)millimeter Astronomy | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie (MPIfR) Bonn | Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen | 2020/08/01 | 2020/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| 51 Pegasi b Fellowship in Planetary Astronomy at UCLA | UCLA | Los Angeles, California | 2020/07/30 | 2020/10/02 | Accepting Applicants |
| Astronomy Education Research Coordinator of the Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE) | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy | Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg | 2020/07/29 | 2020/08/26 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Associate in Exoplanet and Stellar Science | University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO | 2020/07/27 | 2020/10/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral position in theoretical astrophysics at EPF | EPFL | Versoix, Vaud | 2020/07/24 | 2020/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-Doctoral Research Position Announcement: EACOA and EAO Fellowships 2021 | East Asian Core Observatories Association (EACOA) and East Asian Observatory (EAO) | Hilo, HI | 2020/07/22 | 2020/11/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| 2021-2024 MIT Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Competition | MIT | Cambridge, MA | 2020/07/22 | 2020/09/11 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Assistant(s)/Associate(s) in High Energy Astrophysics | University of Cambridge | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire | 2020/07/22 | 2020/08/31 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Post-doctoral position to join the X-ray Integral Field Unit science team | IRAP | Toulouse, France | 2020/07/21 | 2020/09/17 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Position in Astronomy (NAOJ Fellow) | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan | Mitaka, Tokyo | 2020/07/21 | 2020/09/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Fellow in Infrared Survey Science (VEILS survey manager) | University of Southampton | Southampton, Hampshire | 2020/07/19 | 2020/08/17 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoc in galaxy evolution | Chalmers University of Technology | Gothenburg, Västra Götaland | 2020/07/18 | 2020/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics | University of Warwick | Coventry, Warwickshire | 2020/07/16 | 2020/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoc in Multi-Messenger Astronomy / Real-time Data Analysis | DESY | Zeuthen, Brandenburg | 2020/07/16 | 2020/08/16 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Associate | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | 2020/07/14 | 2020/08/11 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Position in Millimeter Astronomy for NOEMA | IRAM | Saint Martin d'Hères, Domaine Universitaire | 2020/07/11 | 2020/08/31 | On Hold |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Research Fellow in Cosmology | The University of Queensland | Brisbane, Queensland | 2020/07/11 | 2020/08/20 | Accepting Applicants |
| ERC SYNERGY PROJECT ECOGAL: Several Postdoctoral Research Fellow Positions in Observational Astrophysics | CEA/CNRS | Saclay, Essonne | 2020/07/09 | 2020/10/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| 51 Pegasi b Fellowship | Heising-Simons Foundation | Los Altos, CA | 2020/07/08 | 2020/10/02 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-Doctoral Research in Gas Flows in Active Galactic Nuclei- #0049583 | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, MD | 2020/07/08 | 2020/08/05 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Researcher in Multi-wavelength Studies of Emission Line Galaxies | Catholic University of America | Washington, District of Columbia | 2020/07/08 | 2020/08/14 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral position on the evolution of stellar clusters | Liverpool John Moores University | Liverpool, Merseyside | 2020/07/03 | 2020/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Position in Tidal Disruption Events at UNIST/CBNU, Korea | UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) | Ulsan, Ulsan | 2020/07/02 | 2020/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-Doctoral Associate (Submillimeter Detector Technology and Instrumentation) | University of Maryland, College Park | College Park, MD | 2020/07/01 | 2020/08/17 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoctoral position: participation to the exoplanet search project SPECULOOS | University of Liege | Liège, Liège | 2020/06/13 | 2020/07/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Researcher, Astronomy (Visiting) | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Moffett Field, CA | 2020/06/11 | 2020/09/14 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Five-Year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship | All Souls College, University of Oxford | Oxford, Oxfordshire | 2020/06/03 | 2020/09/11 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Associate (Atomic Data and X-Ray Spectroscopy) | University of Maryland | College Park, MD | 2020/06/01 | 2020/09/15 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Pre-doctoral/Graduate Positions
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Officer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences | John Templeton Foundation | West Conshohocken, PA | 2020/08/07 | 2020/09/06 | Accepting Applicants |
| Ph.D. to study theoretically how galaxies trace the dark sector within the standard cosmology | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Madrid, Madrid | 2020/08/01 | 2020/09/21 | Accepting Applicants |
| Ph.D. position in the Centre for Astrochemical Studies | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics | Garching, Bavaria | 2020/07/22 | 2020/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| PhD in Astrophysics and Solar Physics | International Max Planck Research School Göttingen | Göttingen, Lower Saxony | 2020/07/20 | 2020/11/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| PhD Opportunities in Astronomy & Radio Astronomy Engineering at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Curtin University node | Curtin University | Bentley, Western Australia | 2020/07/17 | 2020/08/15 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| PhD in Astronomy / Astrophysics | International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics | Garching / MUnich, Bavaria | 2020/07/13 | 2020/11/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| PhD scholarships in astrophysics at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, UWA | International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia | Perth, Western Australia | 2020/07/01 | 2020/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Science Engineering
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image Processing Engineer | BlackSky | Seattle, Washington | 2020/07/21 | 2020/08/31 | Interviewing Applicants |
| Post-doctoral researcher position as instrument scientist for the Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit | IRAP | Toulouse, France | 2020/07/21 | 2020/09/17 | Accepting Applicants |
| Ground Support Engineer | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Palmdale, CA | 2020/06/11 | 2020/09/14 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Instrument Scientist, Astronomy | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Moffett Field, CA | 2020/06/11 | 2020/09/14 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Associate Mission Operations Specialist (Telescope Operator) | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Palmdale, CA | 2020/06/11 | 2020/09/14 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Observatory Software Quality Assurance Engineer | TMT International Observatory, LLC | Pasadena, CA | 2020/05/27 | 2020/08/26 | Accepting Applicants |
| Systems Safety Engineer | TMT International Observatory, LLC | Pasadena, CA | 2020/05/27 | 2020/08/26 | Accepting Applicants |
| Senior Engineer - Primary Mirror Control System | TMT International Observatory, LLC | Pasadena, CA | 2020/05/27 | 2020/08/26 | Accepting Applicants |
Science Management
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archive Sciences Branch Deputy | Space Telescope Science Institue | Baltimore, Maryland | 2020/07/22 | 2020/08/19 | Accepting Applicants |
| Deputy Station Manager | IRAM | Granada, Spain | 2020/07/21 | 2020/10/23 | Accepting Applicants |
| Data Science Mission Head | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, Maryland | 2020/07/10 | 2020/09/02 | Accepting Applicants |
| Department Head of Physics & Astronomy | Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | 2020/07/03 | 2020/08/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| Arecibo Deputy Director | Arecibo Observatory | Orlando, FL | 2020/07/01 | 2020/07/29 | Accepting Applicants |
| Mission Operations Controller (Mission Director) | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Palmdale, CA | 2020/06/11 | 2020/09/14 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Director, Lunar & Planetary Institute | LPI / Universities Space Research Association | Houston, TX | 2020/06/11 | 2020/08/12 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Scientific/Technical Staff
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowell Discovery Telescope Operator | Lowell Observatory | Flagstaff, AZ | 2020/08/07 | 2020/09/04 | Accepting Applicants |
| Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI) Observer Technician | Lowell Observatory | Flagstaff, AZ | 2020/08/07 | 2020/09/04 | Accepting Applicants |
| PLC Engineer | AURA Inc. | MAUI, HAWAI | 2020/08/06 | 2020/09/03 | Accepting Applicants |
| Astronomer or Scientist | AURA | Maui, Hawaii | 2020/08/05 | 2020/09/02 | Accepting Applicants |
| Astronomical Software Engineer II | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, MD | 2020/07/31 | 2020/08/28 | Accepting Applicants |
| Software Engineer | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | Charlottesville, VA | 2020/07/30 | 2020/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Software Engineer - #0050876 | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, MD | 2020/07/29 | 2020/08/29 | Accepting Applicants |
| System Scientist | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation | Kamuela, HI | 2020/07/25 | 2020/09/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Staff Scientists- #0051396 | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, MD | 2020/07/24 | 2020/09/18 | Accepting Applicants |
| Optical Scientist | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, Maryland | 2020/07/21 | 2020/08/18 | Accepting Applicants |
| Software Engineer | W. M. Keck Observatory | Kamuela, HI | 2020/07/17 | 2020/08/16 | Accepting Applicants |
| Observatory Engineer at the University of Wyoming | University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming | 2020/07/15 | 2020/08/14 | Accepting Applicants |
| Assistant Scientist in Computational Hydrodynamics | University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | 2020/07/14 | 2020/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Staff Astronomer | W. M. Keck Observatory | Kamuela, HI | 2020/07/10 | 2020/09/04 | Accepting Applicants |
Other
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Administrator | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation | Kamuela, HI | 2020/07/25 | 2020/09/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Commissioning-Verification Scientist | AURA | Tucson, Arizona | 2020/07/11 | 2020/08/08 | Accepting Applicants |
| Project Specialist (Science Outreach) | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Moffett Field, CA | 2020/06/11 | 2020/08/12 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Project Specialist | SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association | Moffett Field, CA | 2020/06/11 | 2020/08/12 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |