Astronomy jobs

Provide technical leadership for installation, commissioning and operation of the SKA-Low radio telescope. The role develops maintenance strategies, diagnostic methods and technical standards across RF, electronics, optical and signal-processing systems. Based in Geraldton or Perth, the appointment includes a four-day-on, three-day-off fly-in/fly-out roster…

Join Eduardo Bañados’s group to investigate early quasars and their environments. The postdoc will analyze JWST PRISM-DAWN integral-field spectroscopy, contribute to Euclid’s quasar programme, and help prepare and reduce Large Binocular Telescope observations. The full-time position lasts three years, with a negotiable start; the first half of 2027 is…

Three-year fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich, Germany, supporting an independent research programme and interaction with institute researchers. Areas span stellar and binary astrophysics, transients, gravitational waves, computational astrophysics and cosmology, galaxies and supermassive black holes, star…

Schmidt Sciences is recruiting an inaugural cohort of postdoctoral fellows to help design, calibrate and operate a coordinated system of ground- and space-based observatories. Fellows will work across scientific simulation, instrument performance, AI-assisted analysis, data systems, time-domain astronomy and mission design while producing publishable…