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Serves as a Research Astrophysicist in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) that is responsible for ensuring that the astronomical community has timely and effective access to HEASARC holdings, providing flexible and powerful interfaces for data access, and user tools and mechanisms for the analysis and interpretation of astrophysical data.
Major Duties
- Ensures timely and effective online access to HEASARC data. Addresses computer and archive security and technology issues, ensuring that the HEASARC remains operational and secure. Liaises with the astrophysics community on access issues.
- Conceives, manages, and directs the development of data systems for astrophysical research applications. Develops future capabilities in astrophysics data archiving. Leads a team of programmers to provide flexible and powerful tools and interfaces.
- Enables astronomical research by developing new mechanisms to federate collections of data, publish new collections, access images, allow statistical exploration of parameter space, and analyses that require processing large volumes of data.
- Conducts original astrophysical research in high energy astrophysics or cosmology, or other science area(s) with direct applicability to the HEASARC's data holdings.
- Leads the Virtual Observatory (VO) effort within the HEASARC, enhancing support for VO protocols, providing relevant information to the community, and liaising with complementary activities at NASA's other domain astrophysics archives.
- Keeps members of the astronomical community informed about opportunities, requests for information, activities, accomplishments, and decisions relevant to the HEASARC.
- Serves as an expert consultant on broad projects and programs with national impact.
- Consults with all levels of management, headquarters personnel, other federal agencies, and foreign and commercial organizations to provide flexible and powerful interfaces for data access, user tools and mechanisms for analysis of astrophysical data
Qualifications
In addition to the Basic Education Requirement, applicant must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (GS-14), which has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies needed to successfully perform the duties of the position described above. Examples of specialized experience include, but are not limited to:* Expert experience in the field of high energy astrophysics with a strong background in physical science and engineering disciplines, including physics, chemistry, astronomy, electronics, math and x-ray or gamma-ray astronomy, and/or cosmology.*Expert research experience using unique methods and applications that provide innovative solutions to complex physical science issues. *Expert experience in conceiving, managing, and directing the development of data systems for astrophysical research applications that include data archiving and combining large datasets.*Demonstrated skill at communicating effectively with professional personnel at all technical and managerial levels in both the verbal and written form.Advanced degree or equivalent experience in physics, chemistry, astronomy, electronics, math or astronomy preferred.
Pay Range
$137,849.00 - $166,500.00