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Research Scientist/Engineer 3
University of Washington
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Seattle, United States
Location
Seattle
Posted
June 15, 2026
Commute
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Job Description
**Job Description**
**The Department of Astronomy has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist/Engineer 3 position to join their team. Two positions available.**
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Alert Production group within the Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology (DIRAC) Institute at the University of Washington invites applications for a research scientist to join us in Seattle to develop and operate its real-time astronomical data-processing pipelines. This position is based in Seattle, WA.
**About this Opportunity**
The Rubin Observatory has begun observations and will soon undertake a decade-long astronomical survey, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST; http://lsst.org). It will observe half the sky every three nights, detect seven million transient events nightly, and generate more than 6 petabytes of data per year. Its catalogs will include data for about 40 billion objects. The University of Washington is lea...
**The Department of Astronomy has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist/Engineer 3 position to join their team. Two positions available.**
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Alert Production group within the Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology (DIRAC) Institute at the University of Washington invites applications for a research scientist to join us in Seattle to develop and operate its real-time astronomical data-processing pipelines. This position is based in Seattle, WA.
**About this Opportunity**
The Rubin Observatory has begun observations and will soon undertake a decade-long astronomical survey, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST; http://lsst.org). It will observe half the sky every three nights, detect seven million transient events nightly, and generate more than 6 petabytes of data per year. Its catalogs will include data for about 40 billion objects. The University of Washington is lea...