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Posted: 07-Oct-22
Location: Pasadena, California
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 3519078
Caltech
Exempt Overtime Eligible: Exempt
Benefits Eligible: Benefit Based
Caltech is a world-renowned science and engineering institute that marshals some of the world's brightest minds and most innovative tools to address fundamental scientific questions. We thrive on finding and cultivating talented people who are passionate about what they do. Join us and be a part of the diverse Caltech community.
Job Summary
Caltech Optical Observatories (COO) is inviting highly qualified candidates to apply for the position of contributing Software Group Lead within its Optical and Infrared (OIR) Instrumentation Group. The OIR Group develops world-class visible and infrared astronomical adaptive optics systems, imaging cameras, and spectrographs for the Palomar, Keck, and Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatories, as well as other astronomical facilities and flight missions in support of Caltech faculty and student astrophysics research.
Applicants are expected to have a demonstrated record of successfully managing diverse personnel developing software for sophisticated astronomical, experimental physics, or commercial optoelectromechanical instrumentation, while also making significant individual contributions to cross-disciplinary project teams.
The successful candidate will possess comprehensive software knowledge spanning multiple applications and a record of effective leadership, empathy, support, conflict resolution, and career development for a diverse technical workforce. They will maintain close awareness of scientific and industry trends, are expected to gain a high-level knowledge of Caltech research and business operations, and effectively work in close collaboration with the Associate Director for Instrumentation Development, the Caltech faculty, and peer-group managers delivering an ambitious portfolio of leading-edge instrumentation.
Job Duties
The successful Software Group Lead will:
- Provide guidance, insight, and oversight of software project analysis and development activities, including requirements capture, configuration management, development of supervisory, embedded control, customer interface, and data pipelines, testing, and on-going software maintenance.
- Monitor and take responsibility for the Software Groups' internal development processes, product quality, and time management practices.
- Interact regularly and effectively with internal and external project managers, senior engineering staff, supervisors of complementary discipline groups, faculty, students, and administrative professionals.
- Interact with customer stakeholders at partner observatories, universities, federal research laboratories, and private foundations.
- Define future subdiscipline technologies, architectures, tools, and techniques for maintaining international leadership in instrumentation.
- Serve on review boards and lead peer reviews of subsystem activities as necessary.
- Foster continuous process improvement and technology infusion.
- Maintain a safe and supportive working environment.
- Predict, identify, and resolve potential interpersonal conflicts, promoting innovative problem solving and sound decision-making.
- Recruit, hire, and retain a diverse, highly qualified subdiscipline staff by providing career coaching and technical and personal development for direct report employees, including setting goals and ensuring that they are achieved.
- Perform annual employee performance reviews, manage employee probationary goals and, as necessary, address performance and/or disciplinary issues.
- Ensure employee awareness and compliance with Institute policies, procedures, practices, and regulatory requirements.
In this position, you will also be expected to:
- Provide high-level, individual technical contributions in the subdiscipline as a member of multiple cross-disciplinary instrumentation development and support teams, reporting to internal and external project managers.
- Lead the development of non-deliverable infrastructure and testing software to support instrumentation integration workflows at Caltech and partner institutions.
- Develop and implement software migration activities for legacy observatory instrumentation.
- Design and engineer highly sophisticated state-of-the-art research instruments, apparatus, and equipment for internal and external customers.
- Provide technical and managerial leadership of small teams within a matrixed organization.
- Guide the development of new/enhanced subdiscipline design and validation techniques.
- Generate and review costs and schedules for subsystem deliverables.
- Consult with and advise researchers and/or students with the design, set-up, modification, and execution of experiments.
- Provide input to research reports, journal articles, and/or conference proceedings.
- Participate in strategic planning, funding, acquisition, and laboratory development to support the future direction and needs of the OIR Group.
- Perform other related functions and duties as assigned.
Basic Qualifications
- B.S. in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, data science, astronomy, or related field and minimum of 8-years' technical subdiscipline experience, or equivalent, including at least two years software team management experience.
- Experience supervising or leading others.
- Mastery of software engineering processes, including requirements capture, software architecture, quality assurance, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Expertise with modern programming notations (e.g., Python, C++) and development methodologies prevalent in the astronomical, physics, or research engineering communities.
- Enthusiasm to make impactful contributions, individually and within instrumentation teams, to human knowledge and understanding.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills and ability to lead technical peers and work collegially with astronomical faculty.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills, with an ability to express complex technical concepts to non-experts.
- Familiarity with effective systems engineering including requirements engineering, error budget analysis, and requirements flow-down, formal interface control, and risk assessment and mitigation strategies.
- Broad knowledge of experimental physics and multidisciplinary engineering principles.
- The position is based at and requires routine presence on the Caltech campus, with occasional travel and work at high altitudes (up to 14,000 ft.), including both daytime and occasional nighttime schedules, including in low light level conditions, as well as a successful pre-employment physical, DMV, and background checks.
Preferred Qualifications
- M.S. in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, data science, astronomy, or related field and 12-years' experience, or equivalent.
- Strong record of successful delivery of research instrumentation.
- National and international recognition for experimental research or instrumentation leadership.
- A demonstrated record of effective personnel management.
Required Documents
- Resume
- Cover Letter
To be considered for this position please visit our web site and apply on line at the following link: https://hr.caltech.edu/work/job_openings
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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