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Fiscal Officer

FISCAL OFFICER, to be responsible for all aspects of financial administration at Haystack Observatory, which has a diverse sponsor base and annual activities exceeding $20M. Will advise principal investigators (PIs) on complex pre- and post-award matters; monitor the financial performance of grants/contracts, providing regular updates to PIs on the proper distribution of resources and use of funds; provide financial analysis and oversight and prepare reports for PIs/senior administrators/sponsors; monitor sponsored research and discretionary accounts, ensuring compliance with MIT and sponsor policies through to close-out; interact with PIs to develop a wide range of research proposal budgets and associated administrative content; collaborate on solving complex issues; and perform other duties as assigned.

FPGA/Digital Design Engineer

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)/DIGITAL DESIGN ENGINEER, to develop advanced radio astronomy and radar data acquisition and signal-processing systems along with remote sensor systems. Will engage with scientists to translate high-level requirements into working hardware and firmware designs, including end-to-end efforts to design systems involving high-speed signal processing. Projects include digital back-ends for very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), advanced phased-array radar hardware, highly customized software radios, spectral-line processors, and low-power embedded developed sensors. This will include efforts to develop new astronomical systems to support science measurements from a 37-m radio telescope. Responsibilities include FPGA design and development of digital receivers, filters, and spectrometers, with data rates approaching terabits per second (Tb/s); translating concepts into working hardware and using the resulting systems in the field; helping write requirements and validation efforts for subsystems; contributing to project cost and time planning efforts; and other duties as assigned. 

Scientific Software Developer

SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, will be responsible for operation and management of production-level processing of data from scientific instruments, including radar and other techniques that study the Geospace environment in near-Earth space; maintenance of existing software; development of new software using best practices and modern source control tools and understanding of basic science and error analysis practices; frequent collaborative work with a variety of US and international scientists in the Geospace field to archive remote sensing data in the CEDAR Madrigal database, hosted at MIT Haystack; and actively participate in Haystack science and technical discussions, group efforts, and publications in a research facility whose mission is to carry out cutting-edge research in the field of radio science through the development and deployment of innovative new instrumentation. Research at Haystack includes studies of the solid Earth, cryosphere, climate, atmosphere, oceans, space weather and ionospheric monitoring, and ultra-high-resolution imaging of super massive black holes.