LEAD SCIENTIST - SR. RESEARCH SCIENTIST - Solar Coronal Physics - Boulder, Colorado

SWRI • Full-time • Boulder, Colorado, United States • $80k - $120k / year • 3m ago

Lead and/or contribute to development of new missions, mission concepts, and data analysis tools and techniques for solar coronal remote sensing research.
Develop and advance novel image processing and/or spectroscopic analysis techniques.
Help build, calibrate, and test new remote sensing instrumentation for solar coronal imaging and/or spectroscopy.
Develop or extend 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.

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.
Develop and apply cutting edge techniques of coronal imaging and spectroscopy; and prototype, develop, validate, and test software to carry out data processing and analysis of solar coronal observations.
Develop, propose, and carry out applied and/or fundamental research using existing solar coronal observations, new mission data, and new mission concepts.
Disseminate scientific and/or technical progress and results to the broader scientific community through internal team meetings, peer-reviewed journal articles, scientific conferences and workshops, and technical documents and reports.
Develop, foster, and extend new scientific and/or technical research and development collaborations within the Institute, and with external partners, both nationally and internationally.

Requires a PhD in Solar Physics, Space Weather, Astronomy/Astrophysics, Physics, Applied Physics, or related field.
4-7 years: Scientific analysis of solar remote sensing data.
4-7 years: Scientific software design or implementation in a data analysis environment such as IDL or Python.
4-7 years: 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.

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