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With construction underway on the SKA telescopes, we continue to recruit staff across a number of areas at our three locations in the UK, Australia and South Africa. Some of the South Africa and Australia-based roles are employed through our partners CSIRO and SARAO. Make sure to register on our recruitment website to receive alerts.
The Chief Scientist will be based at the SKAO Global Headquarters at the iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, UK, and will be part of the executive team reporting to the Director-General. International travel will be required.
We are looking to recruit an Operations Scientist who will further enhance our growing SKA-Low Science Operations team, in particular with expertise in the areas of the Epoch of Reionisation, Cosmic Dawn, low frequency cosmology, or intensity mapping.
The Risk Process Manager will have overall responsibility for the risk management process at Observatory level, combining and re-factoring risks escalated from Directoratelevel Risk Registers.
Reporting to the ERP System Manager, the U4 ERP Developer will be responsible for development projects in relation to the SKAO’s Unit4 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and its interfaces with other tools across the organisation.


The SKA Computing and Software team is looking for two talented Software Engineers to work under the supervision of the Control System Architect and alongside other engineers to ensure that the Control Systems for the two SKA telescopes are developed to the highest standards.
The Sustainability Lead will play a pivotal role driving the development, execution and continuous improvement of the SKAO Sustainability Strategy.


The administrator will support the Project Managers and the broader Solution Team with administrative, contract, delivery and team support activities helping the teams to focus on delivering the computing and software solutions for the SKAO.
Data Processing Software Engineer
The SKA Computing and Software team are looking for multiple Data Processing Software Engineers to work with our agile software engineering teams to build highly scalable processing software.
Verification Systems Engineer (Low System ITF Test Engineer)
Site Reliability Engineer
Engineering Management System (EMS)
Software Engineer
Storage Site Reliability Engineer