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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 |
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Research Associate in Cosmic Microwave Background Research (Simons Observatory UK Project) (Five Posts Available) | University of Manchester | Manchester, Manchester | 2022/07/26 | 2022/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
Assistant/Associate Research Professor - High-Energy/X-ray Astrophysics Space-flight Instrumentation | Penn State University | University Park, PA | 2022/07/14 | 2022/09/08 | Accepting Applicants |
Full-time Lecturer in Astronomy & Physics | Stevens Institute of Technology | Hoboken, NJ | 2022/07/07 | 2022/08/25 | Accepting Applicants |
Faculty Positions (tenure & tenure-track)
Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | 2022/08/12 | 2022/12/12 | Accepting Applicants |
Tenure Track Assistant Professor | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | 2022/08/12 | 2022/12/12 | Accepting Applicants |
Assistant/Associate Professor in Data Intensive Science x 2 | University of Cambridge | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire | 2022/08/11 | 2022/09/15 | Accepting Applicants |
Faculty Position - Physics and Astronomy | Brigham Young University | Provo, UT | 2022/08/09 | 2022/09/16 | Accepting Applicants |
Faculty Position in Astronomical Instrumentation Chile | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | Santiago, Chile | 2022/08/01 | 2022/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
Head of Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University | Liverpool John Moores University | Liverpool, Merseyside | 2022/07/28 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Tenure-Track Positions in Astronomy and in Physics | Wellesley College | Wellesley, Massachusetts | 2022/07/27 | 2022/10/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Two Tenure-track Positions in Astrophysics | Thüringer Landessternwarte | Tautenburg, Thuringia | 2022/07/27 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Open Rank Tenure-Track Faculty in Planetary Science | The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, Pa | 2022/07/21 | 2022/08/18 | Accepting Applicants |
[KAIST Department of Physics] Tenure Track Faculty Positions | KAIST | Daejon, Republic of Korea | 2022/06/28 | 2022/08/19 | Accepting Applicants |
Faculty Position in Astronomy, National Central University, Taiwan | National Central University | Taoyuan, Taoyuan | 2022/06/22 | 2022/10/15 | Accepting Applicants |
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics | Newcastle University | Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear | 2022/06/22 | 2022/09/20 | Accepting Applicants |
Four Research Positions in Astrophysics at Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, México | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Ciudad de México , Ciudad de México | 2022/06/20 | 2022/09/16 | Accepting Applicants |
Post-doctoral Positions & Fellowships
Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
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NAOJ Postdoctoral Researcher Stationed at the University of Tokyo | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan/the University of Tokyo | Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo | 2022/08/12 | 2022/09/30 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
ERC-funded postdoctoral positions in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics - BHianca | University of Rome Tor Vergata | Rome, RM | 2022/08/10 | 2022/09/21 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | 2022/08/10 | 2022/11/18 | Accepting Applicants |
51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship | Heising-Simons Foundation | Los Altos, CA | 2022/08/10 | 2022/10/10 | Accepting Applicants |
CAS-ANID Postdoctoral Fellowship | The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Research and Development Agency (ANID) of Chile | Santiago, Santiago | 2022/08/09 | 2022/09/08 | Accepting Applicants |
New architecture demonstrator for very large X-ray Microcalorimeter arrays. | CEA | Gif sur Yvette Cedex, Ile de France | 2022/08/09 | 2022/10/01 | Accepting Applicants |
Associate Lecturer – Radio Transients | Curtin University | Bentley Perth, Western Australia | 2022/08/07 | 2022/09/07 | Accepting Applicants |
STScI Postdoctoral Fellowships | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, Maryland | 2022/08/05 | 2022/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoc - Boston University - Radio occultations of plasma environments in the Jupiter system | Boston University | Boston, MA | 2022/08/05 | 2022/10/01 | Accepting Applicants |
University of Michigan LSA Collegiate Fellows | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | 2022/08/05 | 2022/09/19 | Accepting Applicants |
Giacconi & Lasker Prize Fellowships | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, Maryland | 2022/08/05 | 2022/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
One Postdoctoral Contract ASTRI 2022 (PS-2022-080) | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias | La Laguna, Tenerife | 2022/08/04 | 2022/09/11 | Accepting Applicants |
2 Postdoctoral and 2 PhD Positions for COSI Software Development in Gamma-ray Astrophysics | University of Würzburg and University of Mainz | Würzburg / Mainz, BY / RLP | 2022/08/04 | 2022/09/15 | Accepting Applicants |
One Postdoctoral Contract AS IAC-NOT 2022 (PS-2022-077) | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias | La Laguna, Tenerife | 2022/08/04 | 2022/09/04 | Accepting Applicants |
One Postdoctoral Contract LCOGT 2022 (PS-2022-078) | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias | La Laguna, Tenerife | 2022/08/04 | 2022/09/11 | Accepting Applicants |
One Postdoctoral Contract Evolution of Galaxies WEAVE 2022 (PS-2022-079) | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias | La Laguna, Tenerife | 2022/08/04 | 2022/09/04 | Accepting Applicants |
NAOJ Postdoctoral Researcher Stationed at Nihon University | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan/Nihon University | Koriyama city, Fukushima | 2022/08/03 | 2022/09/16 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Post-doctoral Position (JWST AGN Observations/Modelling) | University of Texas at San Antonio | San Antonio, Texas | 2022/07/30 | 2022/08/27 | Accepting Applicants |
CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astrophysical Masers and/or Interstellar Medium Science with GASKAP-OH | CSIRO | Sydney, New South Wales | 2022/07/28 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Fellow | The Australian National University | Weston Creek , Australian Capital Territory | 2022/07/28 | 2022/08/28 | Accepting Applicants |
Software Development in computation of photometric redshift for AGN | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics | Garching, Germany / Bavaria | 2022/07/27 | 2022/09/15 | Accepting Applicants |
CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Practical Applications of Pulsars | CSIRO | Sydney, NSW | 2022/07/27 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral position on the calibration of the extragalactic distance scale | Observatoire de Paris | Meudon, Ile-de-France | 2022/07/26 | 2022/08/25 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoc position on the co-evolution of galaxies and their central black holes | University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, Scotland | 2022/07/26 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Time-Domain Astrophysics Postdoctoral Position | UMD Astronomy / NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center | College Park / Greenbelt, Maryland | 2022/07/22 | 2022/09/01 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cosmology | Swinburne University | Melbourne, Victoria | 2022/07/22 | 2022/08/19 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gravitational-Wave Cosmology | Monash University | Melbourne, Victoria | 2022/07/22 | 2022/08/19 | Accepting Applicants |
Research Associate to work on a submillimetre survey of the Andromeda Galaxy | Cardiff University | Cardiff, Wales | 2022/07/21 | 2022/08/18 | Accepting Applicants |
NAOJ Postdoctoral Researcher Stationed at Kagoshima University | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan/Kagoshima University | Kagoshima city, Kagoshima | 2022/07/20 | 2022/08/26 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Postdoc position in galaxy formation | Univesidad de La Serena | La Serena, Coquimbo | 2022/07/19 | 2022/08/22 | Accepting Applicants |
2023 East Asian Core Observatories Association (EACOA) Research Fellowship Program | East Asian Core Observatories Association (EACOA) | Hilo, HI | 2022/07/19 | 2022/11/15 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Researcher in ISM Physics and Star Formation (JWST) - Reference Number 345 | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy | Heidelberg, D- | 2022/07/19 | 2022/08/21 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Position with the Canadian Galactic Emission Mapper (CGEM) | University of British Columbia | Vancouver, BC | 2022/07/16 | 2022/10/30 | Accepting Applicants |
Competition for a postdoc position in gravitational-wave astrophysics | Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center | Warszawa, mazowieckie | 2022/07/16 | 2022/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Scholar in NEO observations (MITHNEOS) | Northern Arizona University | Flagstaff, AZ | 2022/07/15 | 2022/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral position - Active Galactic Nuclei | Universidad Diego Portales | Santiago, RM | 2022/07/15 | 2022/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoc position at IAS Orsay (France) | Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale | Orsay, France | 2022/07/15 | 2022/09/15 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Postdoctoral Researcher - High-Energy/X-ray Astrophysics Space-flight Instrumentation | Penn State University | University Park, PA | 2022/07/14 | 2022/09/08 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Astrophotonics | The University of Sydney | Camperdown, New South Wales | 2022/07/14 | 2022/08/14 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Associate Lecturer - Fast Radio Bursts | Curtin University | Bentley, Perth, Western Australia | 2022/07/13 | 2022/08/12 | Accepting Applicants |
Senior post-doctoral researcher in theoretical and computational astrophysics | Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) | Potsdam, Brandenburg | 2022/07/13 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Post Doctoral position on the Milky Way in X-rays | Istituto Nazionale di Astronomia | Milano - Merate, Lecco | 2022/07/11 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Become a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow | Harvard Radcliffe Institute | Cambridge, MA | 2022/07/09 | 2022/09/29 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoc position in astronomy | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Stockholm, Sweden | 2022/07/09 | 2022/08/11 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Programme Postdoctoral Poincaré | OBSERVATOIRE DE LA COTE D AZUR | Nice, France | 2022/07/08 | 2022/09/01 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctral position in JWST imaging of exoplanetary systems | Aix Marseille University | Marseille, Sud | 2022/07/05 | 2022/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
51 Pegasi b Fellowship in Planetary Astronomy at UCLA | UCLA | Los Angeles, California | 2022/07/01 | 2022/10/10 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Astroparticle Physics | University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS | 2022/06/28 | 2022/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Time Domain Research | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California | 2022/06/27 | 2022/08/01 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Associate- Argonne | Argonne National Laboratory | Lemont, IL | 2022/06/09 | 2022/07/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Research Scientist in Ultraviolet Instrumentation and Missions | University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, Colorado | 2022/04/27 | 2022/08/16 | Accepting Applicants |
Pre-doctoral/Graduate Positions
Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
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PhD Scholarship in Asteroseismology | University of Sydney | University of Sydney, NSW | 2022/08/04 | 2022/09/01 | Accepting Applicants |
PhD in Astrophysics / Solar Physics / Planetary Sciences | International Max Planck Research School Göttingen | Göttingen, Lower Saxony | 2022/08/02 | 2022/11/01 | Accepting Applicants |
PhD scholarships in Astrophysics at the University of Western Australia | University of Western Australia | Crawley, Western Australia | 2022/07/29 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
PhD in Astronomy / Astrophysics | International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics | Garching / Munich, Bavaria | 2022/07/25 | 2022/11/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Several PhD Positions in Astronomy & Astrophysics | International Max Planck Research School | Heidelberg, BW | 2022/07/22 | 2022/11/09 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
N. D. Goldsworthy Scholarship for Physics at the University of Melbourne | The University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Victoria | 2022/07/21 | 2022/08/18 | Accepting Applicants |
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Planetary Atmospheres | University of Oxford | Parks Road, Oxford | 2022/07/20 | 2022/10/21 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
PhD positions (f/m/d) | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Göttingen, Nidersachsen | 2022/07/18 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
PhD Opportunities in Astronomy & Radio Astronomy Engineering at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Curtin University node | Curtin University | Bentley, WA | 2022/07/16 | 2022/08/18 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
MUSE Research Associate | Bay Area Environmental Research Institute | MOFFETT FIELD, CA | 2022/07/12 | 2022/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
PhD researcher in lightning studies using LOFAR radio telescope | ASTRON | Dwingeloo, Drenthe | 2022/07/12 | 2022/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
Ph.D. Positions at Universidad Diego Portales | Universidad Diego Portales | Santiago, RM | 2022/07/12 | 2022/09/25 | Accepting Applicants |
PhD student Generic phased array feed for ground station G/T optimisation and RFI resilience | ASTRON | Dwingeloo, Drenthe | 2022/07/12 | 2022/08/30 | Accepting Applicants |
Science Engineering
Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
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Space Flight Operations Engineer- James Webb #0005798 | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, MD | 2022/08/11 | 2022/09/08 | Accepting Applicants |
Software Engineer | STFC | Edinburgh, Edinbburgh | 2022/08/10 | 2022/09/09 | Accepting Applicants |
Astronomer/Scientific Programmer - AER0005VL | Jacobs Space Exploration Group | Huntsville, Alabama | 2022/07/16 | 2022/08/13 | Accepting Applicants |
Senior Software Engineer | The Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, Maryland | 2022/07/12 | 2022/08/09 | Accepting Applicants |
Optical Engineer | Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes | Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands | 2022/07/09 | 2022/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
Adaptive Optics Senior Software Engineer | TMT International Observatory LLC | Pasadena, CA | 2022/06/25 | 2022/09/17 | Accepting Applicants |
Dynamics Controls Engineer | TMT International Observatory LLC | Pasadena, CA | 2022/06/25 | 2022/09/17 | Accepting Applicants |
Science Management
Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
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Project Director, US Extremely Large Telescope | AURA/NOIRLab | Tucson, Arizona | 2022/08/09 | 2022/09/06 | Accepting Applicants |
Project Manager - LSSTC | LSST Corporation | Tucson, AZ | 2022/07/12 | 2022/08/09 | Accepting Applicants |
Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) Director | Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) | Dwingeloo, Drenthe | 2022/05/31 | 2022/08/21 | Accepting Applicants |
Scientific/Technical Staff
Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
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Computational Spectroscopist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Greenbelt, Maryland | 2022/08/11 | 2022/10/12 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Gehrels Swift Multimessenger Mission Support Scientist | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Greenbelt, Maryland | 2022/08/05 | 2022/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
Data Scientist/Scientific Software Developer - Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | 2022/08/04 | 2022/10/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Resident Astronomer Position | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Mexico City, Mexico City | 2022/08/01 | 2022/09/16 | Accepting Applicants |
Multifunctional Nanosensor Testing Laboratory Associate | Catholic University of America/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Greenbelt, Maryland | 2022/07/27 | 2022/08/24 | Accepting Applicants |
IT Specialist (Applications Software) | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Cambridge, MA | 2022/07/26 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Astronomer (Program Director) | National Science Foundation | Alexandria, VA | 2022/07/25 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre - Multiple Identified positions for women only recruitment | Australian National University | Canberra, ACT | 2022/07/23 | 2022/09/03 | Accepting Applicants |
Community Scientist for Documentation | AURA/NOIRLab | Tucson, Hilo, La Serena, Arizona, Hawaii, Chile | 2022/07/23 | 2022/09/02 | Accepting Applicants |
Computational Cosmology Center Group Lead | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Berkeley, CA | 2022/07/16 | 2022/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
Research Scientist at Perimeter Institute (CHORD radio telescope) | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | Waterloo, ON | 2022/06/29 | 2022/08/15 | Accepting Applicants |
Archive Developer | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Cambridge, MA | 2022/06/17 | 2022/09/07 | Accepting Applicants |
MSFC Astrophysics X-ray Group Civil Servant Hires | NASA MSFC | Huntsville, AL | 2022/06/02 | 2022/08/15 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
Other
Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
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Haleakalā Site Engineer | Las Cumbres Observatory | Kula, Maui | 2022/08/12 | 2022/09/23 | Accepting Applicants |
Scientific Editor | American Astronomical Society | Washington, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | 2022/08/12 | 2022/09/30 | Accepting Applicants |
Software Engineer (Simons Observatory: UK Project) (2 posts) | University of Manchester | Manchester, Manchester | 2022/07/28 | 2022/08/31 | Accepting Applicants |
PASA Editorial Board - Call for Applications | Astronomical Society of Australia | Sydney, NSW | 2022/06/23 | 2022/07/31 | Accepting Applicants |