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Job Summary
The database manager will have full responsibility for maintaining, updating, and upgrading a comprehensive database of young stellar objects, star forming regions, moving groups, and benchmark open clusters in the nearby Milky Way. There is also opportunity for related collaborative research projects.
Essential Job Duties
The successful job candidate will perform various tasks related to populating a relational database that allows users to access, search, and better exploit YSO data for new science investigations. The person will work with an existing SQL database running on PostgreSQL, that is created and managed by python scripts and the Django framework and is connected to a front-end user interface written in HTMI, JavaScript, and CSS. They will learn, operate within, and improve the database population workflow. The goals are to: (1) optimize large-scale data ingestion; (2) implement already-identified fixes and improvements to the workflow; 3) add new features to the existing codebase. Tasks include processing files that have been downloaded from the astronomical literature and source catalogs and reformatting them in a manner suitable for upload into the YSOC database. Additional tasks relate to backend code development, with an opportunity to engage in frontend development.
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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