Description

NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is a planned mission (launch: Sept 2027) with a goal of finding, identifying, and characterizing potentially hazardous asteroids in our Solar System.   The NEO Surveyor Assistant Survey Scientist will work with the Principal Investigator and Science Team in developing the NEO Surveyor survey plan, which determines where the Observatory points as a function of time; will participate in testing and verifying that the survey plan obeys survey rules defined by the Science Team; will 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.  More information on the position, including qualifications, compensation range, benefits and how to apply are provided in the job URL.

Requirements

Qualifications for the position include: 1+ years research experience in planetary astrophysics, solar system bodies, exoplanets or related subarea(s); strong programming skills with 2+ years Python or equiv. language programming experience; ability to interpret copious amounts of complex technical information and data.