We are looking to recruit a Senior Research Software Engineer to join our team. This post is part of OxRSE’s embedded RSE group within the Department of Physics.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and work on world-leading and impactful projects. For at least the first two years you will work exclusively on the Breakthrough Listen project in the Department of Physics. Breakthrough Listen (BL) is the world’s most comprehensive Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, operating wideband receivers on leading radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope, Parkes, MeerKAT, the Very Large Array, and the Allen Telescope Array. BL is collecting multi-petabyte datasets and developing state-of-the-art pipelines to detect technosignatures (indicators of technology as a proxy for the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence). A primary goal of BL is also to make the data accessible and usable by the broader astronomy and scientific communities, and by the general public. This is a high-impact role at the frontier of astronomy, machine learning, and large-scale scientific computing.
This is a full-time, open-ended post.
Applications close at 12 noon on 23 October 2026.
Full job description and application available here.
We are looking to recruit a Research Software Engineer to join our team. This post is part of OxRSE’s embedded RSE group within the Department of Physics.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and work on world-leading and impactful projects. For the first two years you will work exclusively on the ATLAS project in the Department of Physics. ATLAS is an asteroid impact early warning system developed by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA. It consists of five telescope units (2 in Hawaii and 1 each in Chile, South Africa and Tenerife), which automatically scan the whole sky several times every night looking for moving and transient objects. The University of Oxford is a key partner in the data management, data processing and public data availability aspects of ATLAS. Oxford scientifically leads the exploitation of the extragalactic transients that are discovered and monitored by ATLAS. The project has become the leading “all-sky every night” transient and moving object survey and is aiming to expand the network beyond the five currently operating sites.
This is a full-time, open-ended post.
Applications close at 12 noon on 23 October 2026.
Full job description and application available here.