Solar Instrument Scientist — UV/X-ray Space Weather

University of Colorado Boulder; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 87,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Colorado Boulder’s LASP invites applications for a solar instrument scientist. The role focuses on calibrations and data analysis of NASA satellite instruments to study solar UV and X-ray irradiance, its variations during flares, 27-day rotation, and 11-year cycle, and their impacts on Earth's upper atmosphere and space weather applications.

The successful candidate will help design and calibrate new solar instruments and propose missions for NASA, NOAA and NSF, contributing to

Qualifications

• PhD in science or engineering fields.
• Solar Physics background.
• Space Weather related primarily to flares and CME events.
• Programming languages such as IDL, Python, and/or C for data analysis and development of instrument flight software.
• Knowledge of proposal writing.

Responsibilities

• Analyze the rocket flight measurements from the SDO EVE rocket instruments to determine solar irradiance reference spectra and apply those results to the SDO EVE flight instrument in GEO.
• Analyze the InspireSat-1 DAXSS solar X-ray spectra for solar active region evolution and trending and publish those results.
• Support the integration and test, launch, and commissioning of the SunCET cubesat and analyze the SunCET instrument science data and publish those results.
• Support the calibration, integration and test, launch, and commissioning of the CubIXSS cubesat and analyze the CubIXSS instrument science data and publish those results.
• Develop a new solar hard X-ray photometer for LASP's Internal Research and Development (IRD) program and propose this new instrument for a mission for NASA and/or NOAA.
• Pursue other solar physics / space weather research and development of other solar instruments to NASA, NOAA, and/or NSF.
• Present results from these projects at mission science workinggroup meetings and at national / international science conferences.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Solar Physics

Python

IDL

C programming

Space Weather

Education

PhD

Job description

University of Colorado Boulder’s LASP invites applications for a solar instrument scientist. The role focuses on calibrations and data analysis of NASA satellite instruments to study solar UV and X-ray irradiance, its variations during flares, 27-day rotation, and 11-year cycle, and their impacts on Earth's upper atmosphere and space weather applications.

The successful candidate will help design and calibrate new solar instruments and propose missions for NASA, NOAA and NSF, contributing to