Staff Scientist

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Job Summary

IPAC (), part of the Physics, Math, and Astronomy Division at Caltech (), provides science operations, user support, data and archive services, and scientific vision to enhance discovery with observatories both in space and on the ground. IPAC invites applications from highly qualified individuals for a full-time scientist position to work with the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED).

The mission of NED () is to accelerate science discovery in astrophysics within NASA's strategic plan by providing a census of extragalactic objects augmented with data joined from across the electromagnetic spectrum for use by the resear...