The LSST:UK team is recruiting

The School of Physics and Astonomy at the University of Edinburgh is looking for a Senior Research Software Engineer and two Research Software Engineers

Candidates must have experience developing, deploying and maintaining cloud-based data analysis services to join our team operating science platforms for multi-PB sky survey datasets used by the global astronomy community. Two of the roles involve working on LSST:UK. 

The Institute for Astronomy’s Wide-Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU) is involved in the production and curation of a number of large sky survey datasets and supports astronomers analysing them. Increasingly, this involves the use of science platforms, which couple notebook-style programming interfaces and virtualised compute resources. These positions relate to the science platforms for the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), both of which use OpenStack and Kubernetes technologies. 

The two Research Software Engineer (RSE) posts – one for Gaia and one for Rubin LSST – will focus on the development and maintenance of existing science platforms for the two surveys, while the Senior RSE position has a service delivery responsibility, ensuring smooth operation of the UK’s LSST Independent Data Access Centre.

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Last updated: 12 Dec 2024 at 14:36