Solar Physics Research Team Lead

7 hours ago


Boulder, Colorado, United States Southwest Research Institute Full time

The Solar and Heliospheric Physics division at Southwest Research Institute is seeking a highly skilled Research Scientist Team Lead to join our team.

As a Research Scientist Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading and contributing to the development of new missions, mission concepts, and data analysis tools and techniques for solar coronal remote sensing research.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Helping to build, calibrate, and test new remote sensing instrumentation for solar coronal imaging and/or spectroscopy.
  • Developing or extending a program of funded research in the fields of solar coronal physics and space weather, with emphasis on high-energy solar processes and leveraging new missions, instruments, and mission concepts.

You will also participate in mission and instrument development activities, including laboratory and/or field calibration and testing of instruments, and development of flight and/or ground operational software.

Requirements include:

  • A PhD in Solar Physics, Space Weather, Astronomy/Astrophysics, Physics, Applied Physics, or related field.
  • Scientific analysis of solar remote sensing data.
  • Scientific software design or implementation in a data analysis environment such as IDL or Python.
  • Flight or laboratory experience with solar remote sensing instrumentation, including calibration and data analysis.
  • Experience with X-ray and/or extreme ultraviolet solar image and/or spectroscopic data.
  • Demonstrated history of participation in or leadership of successful scientific and/or technical proposals to federal funding agencies.

Southwest Research Institute is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.



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