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Job Description

The Role
We are seeking an instrumentation scientist or engineer who will play a lead role in the development of new astronomical instrumentation based on fiber optic and photonic chip technologies. The Instrumentation Scientist would be someone who shares our core values of Integrity, Excellence, Respect, and Creativity.

The successful candidate will participate in the TESERACT project, a CubeSat mission that will demonstrate a novel type of spectroscopy in space. As a Research Associate in our team, you will contribute to the instrumentation effort based on our photonic integral field unit (IFU) architecture through fiber-coupling, alignment, integration, on-sky and in-lab characterization.

The long-term objective is a multi-object spectral characterization instrument for biosignature detection on Earth-like exoplanets, with applications in Earth observation. The work shifts from bulk optics to chip-scale photonic processing, improving size, weight, power, cost, stability, and scalability while maintaining high resolution.

Key technical areas include:
• Integral field unit (IFU) and integral field spectroscopy feed design and integration
• Fiber-coupling, microlens arrays, and beam-remapping optics
• Optical design, alignment, and integration of instrument front-ends
• Photonic device and sub-system characterization at visible and near-infrared wavelengths
• On-sky commissioning and validation on ground-based telescopes

You will collaborate with researchers from NRC’s Quantum and Nanotechnologies Research Center, the University of Toronto, and Queen’s University Belfast, with travel to collaborator sites.