Astronomical Software Developer

This position has a term length of three years.

Location -   This role is hybrid with a mix of remote and in-person at North Campus, Edmonton.

Position Summary

The Astronomical Software Developers will join the research team building the Canadian Data-Intensive Astrophysics Platform (CanDIAPL), an international, university-led team based in Canada. They will be responsible for co-developing software infrastructure hosted on CanDIAPL servers operated with the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (Alliance) and the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA). 

Primary tasks will include: creating a portal that enables remote users to view multi-messenger astrophysical data; and developing the software pipelines supporting automated transfer of scientific data from the MeerKAT telescope to Alliance computational facilities.

This work will include creating and maintaining specific software repositories that: retrieve and create images and other data from the MeerKAT telescope, the MWA Telescope, the Rubin Observatory, and other publicly available astronomical resources; use these data to detect astronomical sources; and transfer key data at dramatically reduced size to CanDIAPL servers operated with the Alliance.