NEO Surveyor Assistant Survey Scientist

NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is a planned space-based infrared survey mission (launch: September 2027) designed to find, identify, and characterize potentially hazardous asteroids in the Solar System.  The Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences (EPSS) is an academic unit within the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences.  The NEO Surveyor assistant survey scientist will be an employee supported by UCLA's NEO Surveyor contract with NASA.  Assistant survey scientist will assist the Principal Investigator and Science Team in developing the NEO Surveyor survey plan, which determines where the Observatory points as a function of time. The assistant survey scientist will participate in testing and verifying that the survey plan obeys survey rules defined by the Science Team. The assistant survey scientist will also participate actively in studying the ability to link detections of small body candidates observed by NEO Surveyor to ensure that they result in the determination of high quality orbits.  See complete position description (https://universityofcalifornia.marketpayjobs.com/ShowJob.aspx?EntityID=38&jobcode=TBD_2841) for more information.