Senior Data Scientist in Astrophysics

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) are seeking a senior research astronomer with experience and strong interests in using large-scale ‘big data’ management systems.

You will be the CASS lead scientist for data storage and access services provided by CSIRO to support radio astronomy. CASS supports several radio astronomy data archives and is currently working in partnership with CSIRO Information Management and Technology (IM&T) to develop the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA). CASDA will host up to 5 Petabytes of ASKAP data products per year with data storage at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth.

You will build networks and relationships, establish resources and determine future directions for data management for CSIRO radio astronomy facilities including ASKAP, and will contribute to the development of scientific data services for the Square Kilometre Array. You will engage closely with the astronomy community to establish and specify community data requirements from all of CASS’s telescopes and will promote the scientific use of data archives by the astronomy community. During construction projects you will act as the CASS Project Scientist/Project Leader for data archive projects and will work closely with technical development teams to ensure project deliverables meet requirements.

Up to forty per cent of your time will be available for research activities as a senior research scientist. You are expected to make use of the CASS observing capabilities and to lead and participate in continuing research programs leading to high quality refereed publications.

Applicants must apply through the web site at http://www.csiro.au/careers with reference 19201.