Missions

-The radio astronomical data scientist will work within the Horizon Europe funded project “SPECTRUM”. Through the collaboration of members of the high-energy physics (HEP), radio astronomy (RA) and e-infrastructures' communities, SPECTRUM will deliver in 2026 a Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda (SRIDA) which defines the vision, overall goals, main technical and non-technical priorities, investment areas and a research, innovation and deployment roadmap for data-intensive science and infrastructures.

Activities

- Contribute to the joint efforts of HEP & RA research infrastructures and e-infrastructures to address common research and innovation needs towards exabyte-scale computing
- Actively animating a Community of Practice in RA to produce a compendium of 1/ use cases, related challenges, gaps and requirements covering technical and policy aspects, 2/ existing approaches, existing services, technical solutions and policies for the federation of data and compute infrastructures
- Contribututing to the development of a technical blueprint of a European compute and data continuum
- Contribute to the SRIDA delivery by participating on the identification of strategic action paths, specific actions and policy recommendations

Skills

- Experience in a major astronomical project (required)
- Previous experience in the coordination of a wide and geographically dispersed scientific community (required)
- Ability to work in a team and respect deadlines (required)
- Capability to write documents and deliver clear presentations in English (required)
- Experience working as scientific support for the design of astronomical hardware and software systems (desired)

Work Context

The amount of data gathered, shared and processed in frontier research is set to increase steeply in the coming decade, leading to unprecedented data processing, simulation and analysis needs. In particular, High Energy Physics and Radio Astronomy are gearing up for groundbreaking instruments, necessitating infrastructures many times larger than the current capabilities. In this context, the EU-funded SPECTRUM project brings together leading European science organisations and e-Infrastructure providers to formulate a Strategic Research, Innovation, and Deployment Agenda (SRIDA) along with a Technical Blueprint for a European computer and data continuum. This collaborative effort is set to create an Exabyte-scale research data federation and compute continuum, fostering data-intensive scientific collaborations across Europe.
CNRS is the French insitute participating in the SPECTRUM project, bringing expertise in the RA domain. CNRS is the institute leading the French participation to the SKA Observatory and to the ERIC LOFAR. The Data Scientist will work at the Lagrange Department of Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, where Chiara Ferrari, main contact of CNRS withiun the project SPECTRUM and representative for CNRS at SKAO and LOFAR Councils, is based.

Constraints and risks

- Travel in France and abroad is to be expected
- No particular risk

Additional Information

Candidates are invited to apply directly on the CNRS job portal (https://emploi.cnrs.fr/), but also to send the following to the CNRS lead of the SPRECTUM project, Dr Chiara Ferrari (chiara.ferrari@oca.eu):
- CV
- Letter of motivation