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NASA ADS | Non-Profit | Search/Back-End Engineer (Java & Python) | Cambridge, MA (US) | Hybrid schedule (40% WFH/60% ONSITE) | Full-time | H1B VISA Sponsorship (no lottery)

The NASA Astrophysics Data System (the world-leading scientific literature search engine in Astronomy & Astrophysics, fully open source and free) is seeking one talented Search/Back-end engineer to maintain and improve the search engine, data pipelines, and APIs, as well as the ADS natural language processing/deep learning efforts (transformers, BERT, GPT, LLaMA).

Particularly, the Search/Back-end Engineer will work on improving our custom Apache Solr search engine developed in Java (document scoring/ranking, second order operators, query parsing) and our Python back-office data pipelines.

Job descriptions: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/careers/

Typical entry salary range of 77-115K with annual revisions + generous benefits (as employees of the Smithsonian Institution) + flexible schedule/environment + friendly working culture with nice work-life balance + great learning opportunities (thanks to our affiliation to Harvard).

Your contribution will be open source and it will have a world-wide impact in the scientific community!

NASA ADS: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/

Contact us after applying, or before if you have any question: [email protected]

We encourage applications from minorities, women, protected veterans, individuals with disabilities, and all other qualified applicants!




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