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$129,000 - $158,100 a year
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- Job Summary Caltech Optical Observatories is seeking a talented Senior Electrical Engineer or Physicist with experience in scientific imaging technologies to join an enthusiastic and creative electronics team within the multidisciplinary Optical/Infrared (OIR) Instrumentation group.
- While fostering a community of respect, learning, and individual growth, the OIR group designs, fabricates, and commissions astronomical instrumentation systems for ground-based observatories such as Palomar, Gemini, Keck, and the planned Thirty Meter Telescope, as well as developing telescopes in space and the Antarctic.
- Previous and anticipated projects include deployment of ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared detectors in large-format mosaics requiring rapid readout, spectrograph detector systems demanding exquisite noise performance, and fast-frame-rate detectors for adaptive optics (wavefront sensing in both optical and NIR).
- Additionally, the COO team conducts basic research into phenomena affecting the feasibility or design of future space missions and large telescopes, including how device physics limits measurement accuracy.
- Direct the construction of sophisticated models of image sensor behavior.
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