University Assistant (post doc) at the Department of Astrophysics

The University of Vienna (20 faculties and centres, 184 fields of study, approx. 10.400 members of staff, about 90.000 students) seeks to fill the position from 01.07.2023 of a


Reference number: 14122

The astronomical software group "A*V" at the University of Vienna, Austria is looking for motivated scientists to develop observation simulation and data reduction software for several of the future instruments at ESO's Extremely Large Telescope.



Duration of employment: 3 year/s

Extent of Employment: 40.0 hours/week
Job grading in accordance with collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 lit. b (postdoc) with relevant work experience determining the assignment to a particular salary grade.

Job Description:
Successful candidates will be involved in the following software development activities:
- the design and implementation of the data reduction pipeline for the METIS mid-infrared imager and spectrograph at the ELT,
- further development of the generalised instrument and observation data simulation framework "ScopeSim",
- simulation of raw and processed observational data sets related to both the scientific feasibility and data production capabilities of various ELT instruments.

Additionally the successful candidates will be required to be involved in the teaching aspects of the Institute, including:
- Independent teaching of courses as defined by the collective bargaining agreement
- Supervision of student projects
- Contributions to general organisational and administrative tasks

Profile:
- PhD in astronomy / astrophysics / physics (with connection to astronomy)
- Very advanced software development skills (at least one major programming language relevant in astronomy - C/C++, Python ...)
- Comfortable with standard software development tools (Git, Pytest, Sphinx, etc).
- An active public Github account
- Ability to work in a distributed software team
- Excellent communication skills (written and spoken English)

- Experience implementing astronomical data reduction pipelines
- Experience with integral field unit spectrographs and/or mid-infrared instruments
- Experience with ESO standards of software development

Application documents:
- Letter of motivation
- Academic curriculum vitae (including link to GitHub account, list of publications, list of courses taught, list of talks given)


Research fields:

Main research field	Special research fields	Importance
Physics, Astronomy	Astronomy	SHOULD

Education:

Educational institution	Educational level	Special subject	Importance
University	Physics, Mechanics, Astronomy	Astronomy	MUST

Languages:

Language	Language level	Importance
English	Excellent knowledge	MUST

Computer-Skills:

Type of computer skills	Specified computer skills	Importance
software developing	Developer	MUST

Applications including a letter of motivation (German or English) should be submitted via the Job Center to the University of Vienna ( http://jobcenter.univie.ac.at) no later than 15.07.2023, mentioning reference number 14122.

For further information please contact Leschinski, Kieran , Zeilinger, Werner +43-1-4277-51865.

The University pursues a non-discriminatory employment policy and values equal opportunities, as well as diversity ( http://diversity.univie.ac.at/). The University lays special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female applicants.

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