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🥝 Research Scientist/Engineer 3

University of Washington | Seattle, United States | Posted June 20, 2026

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...

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