The European Southern Observatory

Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, Garching bei München, 85748, Germany

Tel: +49 89 32006 0

https://www.eso.org

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About us

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) enables scientists worldwide to discover the secrets of the Universe for the benefit of all. We design, build and operate world-class observatories on the ground. Astronomers worldwide use our telescopes to tackle exciting questions and spread the fascination of astronomy: How did the Universe come into existence? What are black holes? Are we alone in the Universe?

We are an intergovernmental organisation established in 1962 supported by 16 Member States (Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom), our host country Chile and strategic partners. ESO brings together over 750 staff from more than 30 countries, and countless more collaborators worldwide, all driven by the passion to build the best telescopes, serve the community and benefit society. We are honoured by the privilege to serve more than 22 000 users from over 130 different countries with excellent infrastructure, services, technologies and data.

The European Southern Observatory Jobs

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      3D Services

      The European Southern Observatory · (Working Student)

      ESO's Creative Team is using 3D animations for various productions, such as images, visuals for press releases or technical animations for explainer videos. Additionally, we are producing a realtime application, that enables the audience to visit ESO's Extremely Large Telescope within a virtual environment. Due to...

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      Archiving Services

      The European Southern Observatory · (Working Student)

      Due to the large amount of video and image material that ESO's Creative Team produces itself and receives from external sources, we need support in structuring and processing this material for our productions and in managing our archives. This is necessary to make our workflows more efficient and to support our...

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      Software Engineer - Science Operations Software

      The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany

      to work on development and maintenance of the ALMA TelCal software. The ALMA Telescope Calibration (TelCal) is the online calibration software for the ALMA array of antennas. It combines all the required functionality to optimally tune the ALMA interferometer for successfully executing observations. It provides...

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      IT Specialist

      The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany

      Database Management Systems form the central component of the ESO and ALMA Science Operations that utilise OLAP, OLTP, Replication and Document DBMS from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Couchbase. After finishing your university degree in computer science or equivalent, you have gained several years of general IT...

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      BIM Expert

      The European Southern Observatory · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

      The successful applicant will be part of the Support and Quality Assurance Group (SQA) within the MSE Department at the Paranal site of the La Silla Paranal Observatory. The MSE Department, with a workforce of 85 engineers and technicians, provides maintenance and technical support to the four 8m VLT telescopes, to...