JOB SEARCH/ASTRONOMY: A Sidebar Question

[dewline]

I have no hope of qualifying for the job, I suspect, but as someone interested in astronomy in general the National Research Council advert caught my attention anyway. NRC is looking for a "Radio Astronomy Signal Chain Engineer" for their Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre as I write this. Does anyone in my friendlist know what goes into that job?

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[thewayne]

'Signal chain engineer'? Huh, never heard of that one. We have a large radio telescope installation here in Socorro, the Very Large Array (VLA), the ones seen in the old Jodie Foster movie, Contact. I've got pix of it up on my waynewestphotography.com site.

I'd expect it's mainly an electronics and secondarily a computer specialist job as the signals that radiotelescopes work with are insanely faint and filtering out the noise is quite delicate.

[dewline]

That still tells me more than I knew. Thank you.

[thewayne]

Happy to help.