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City: Victoria
Organizational Unit: Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics
Classification: RO
Tenure: Continuing
Language Requirements: English

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Science or Engineering, or
• A Master’s degree in an Engineering field with relevant experience.
  For information on certificates and diplomas issued abroad, please see Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE

• Experience in the design, development, testing and integration of high-performance electronic systems.
• Experience with electronic test equipment such as oscilloscopes, data acquisition systems, spectrum analysers or network analysers.
• Experience in engineering data analysis.
• Experience programming in C, Python or similar languages.
• Experience with electronic assembly practices.

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

English
Information on language requirements and self-assessment tests

As a team member of the Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre (HAA), you will participate in the research, development, testing and evaluation of astronomical instrumentation. Working in cross-disciplinary teams, you will design and build new instruments for large international observatories, provide support for existing facilities, and perform research into new technologies for possible incorporation in future instrumentation projects.
You will work with a small group of electronic engineers who together cover a wide variety of electronic tasks, including low-noise analog circuits, high-speed digital systems, precision electro-mechanical systems, sensors and control systems, optoelectronics and radio-frequency circuitry, and you will be expected to contribute to a wide range of electronics-based tasks. For this position we are looking for someone to work in particular on developing high-performance scientific imaging systems, based on the latest sensor technology, for the next generation of astronomical imagers, spectrographs and adaptive optics systems, as well as possibly equivalent detector systems at longer wavelengths. You will collaborate closely with a large team of scientists, engineers and technicians across a range of fields that together can conceptualize, design and deliver forefront astronomical instrumentation to world-leading observatories that deliver cutting-edge science to their user communities.