NASA ADS | One Search/Back-End Engineer + One DevOps Engineer | Cambridge, MA (US) or Remote from US | Full-time | VISA Sponsorship Available
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 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).
- The DevOps Engineer will manage our infrastructure, which consists on-premise Linux servers and a Kubernetes cluster in the cloud (AWS).
Job descriptions: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/careers/
Typical entry salary range of 75-115K with annual revisions + generous benefits.
We encourage applications from minorities, women, protected veterans, individuals with disabilities, and all other qualified applicants.
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), if you do not have a Social Security Number (e.g., foreign nationals) write a random number (different from 1234..), 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: Email is hidden
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/