Jobs

External Job Opportunities

NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) Postdoctoral Fellowship

IAIFI is looking for early-career scientists working at the intersection of Physics and AI. The application deadline is October 8, 2025!

Weber State University PROGRESS in STEM Education Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Postdoctoral Research Opportunities for Greater Retention, Engagement, Scholarship and Success (PROGRESS) Fellowship is currently hiring for three postdoctoral researchers. The program focuses on engaging the Fellows in high-impact educational experiences as well as facilitating success in their management of a research group at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution. The priority application deadline is October 24, 2025 (for full consideration)!

University of Oxford Associate Professor of Cosmology

The application deadline is October 31, 2025, at 6 a.m. CT!

The University of Toledo Assistant Professor(s) in Astrostatistics/Data Science

The application deadline is October 31, 2025!

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Assistant Professor of Astronomy

The closing date for application is November 3, 2025!

University of Utah Postdoctoral Research Associate(s) in Time-Domain Astronomy/Radio Astronomy

The application deadline is November 3, 2025!

CosmicAI Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin

The NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to conduct research modeling the astrochemistry of astrophysical systems. The Fellow, based at the University of Texas at Austin, will collaborate with CosmicAI researchers within the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and with team members across the Institute to facilitate the application of cutting-edge AI tools and methodologies. The application deadline is November 17, 2025!

University of Washington Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics & Cosmology (DiRAC) Postdoctoral Positions and Fellowships

The application deadline is November 30, 2025!

Stockholm University Postdoctoral Fellow in Machine Learning for Astrophysics & Cosmology

The application deadline is December 19, 2025!

Past External Job Opportunities

Haverford College Postdoctoral Researcher in Extragalactic Astrophysics

The Postdoctoral Researcher in Extragalactic Astrophysics will work with Karen Masters, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and collaborators in Galaxy Zoo, the Zooniverse, and the Roman Science team on integrating Roman Space Telescope images into Galaxy Zoo. The Postdoctoral Researcher will also lead research projects of mutual interest from analogous (and currently available data) from Galaxy Zoo: Euclid or JWST (COSMOS-web and CEERS). The successful candidate will become a core member of the Galaxy Zoo science team. The application deadline is September 28, 2025!

Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania Postdoc in Galaxy Formation Simulation Data Engineering

The goal of the project is to develop the infrastructure to make access to cosmological galaxy formation simulation data possible over a regular internet connection. The application deadline is August 15, 2025!

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) Machine Learning Research Engineer

In this role, you will work within the PSC’s Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (AI&BD) Group to support and advance research, assist with user support, as well as develop and deliver advanced training. PSC posted this position on July 7, 2025.

CosmicAI Postdoctoral Fellow at NSF NOIRLab in Time Domain Astronomy

The newly established National Science Foundation (NSF)-Simons CosmicAI Institute seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to help initiate a new comprehensive research program to foster foundational advancements in AI through the curation, analysis, and processing of astronomical data at the NSF NOIRLab, located in Tucson, Arizona. The postdoctoral fellow will lead a project on the curation and analysis of multi-epoch time-domain training data for real-time classification algorithms in the context of alert brokers, such as ANTARES, for the Vera Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). This work will be carried out in close collaboration with CosmicAI team members at various institutions, including NOIRLab (Tom Matheson), SLAC (Adam Bolton), and the University of Virginia (Maryam Modjaz). Although stationed at NSF NOIRLab, CosmicAI fellows will have full access to Institute facilities and equipment (e.g., world-class computational resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, including Vista, a newly instantiated 600 GPU node cluster) and routinely collaborate with Institute members across all sites to facilitate the development of cutting-edge AI tools and methodologies.  The priority application deadline is July 15, 2025 (for full consideration)!

Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Director of Operations at Northwestern University

CIERA is looking for experienced professionals with PhDs from any area that connects with CIERA’s mission, from astronomy, to physics, computer science, engineering, data science/AI, and more! Applications from candidates with PhDs in any field who are interested in interdisciplinary science management are encouraged. This is a senior, PhD-level position, for which CIERA will pursue the university process to be elected as Research Assistant Professor. The priority application deadline is July 11, 2025 (for full consideration)!

CosmicAI Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin—LLMs/Generative AI

The priority application deadline is May 1, 2025 (for full consideration)!

The SkAI Institute is one of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation.
Information on National AI Institutes is available at aiinstitutes.org.