The NASA Astrophysics Data System (the world-leading scientific literature search engine in Astronomy & Astrophysics) is seeking two talented engineers (a DevOps and a Search/Back-end engineer) to maintain and improve the data pipelines, as well as to support the search engine and the ADS natural language processing/machine learning efforts.
- The DevOps Engineer will manage our infrastructure, which consists on-premise Linux servers and a Kubernetes cluster in the cloud (AWS).
- The Search/Back-end Engineer will work on improving our custom Apache Solr search engine (requires Java & search knowledge) and our back-office data pipelines (requires Python knowledge).
Job descriptions: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/careers/ Salary range: 75-115K
Your contribution will be open source and it will have a world-wide impact in the astronomy community!
Hiring process:
1. Apply through the USAjobs links provided in https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/careers/. In USAjobs, select Cambridge as location (even if you wish to be considered as a full remote employee from the US), and not all documents listed in USAjobs are required (e.g., School Transcript only necessary if you are using education to qualify for the position instead of experience), send us an email if you have questions or difficulties: adshelp@cfa.harvard.edu
2. For applications that fulfill the requirements, the candidate will be contacted by email to setup a 1 hour online technical interview (no preparation in advance). Short-listed candidates will go through a second and final interview, where there will be some additional technical questions/exercises and the candidate will have about 15 minutes to present some past project or technology (relevant for the position).
NASA ADS: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/