Employment at IceCube

Positions will remain posted beyond their respective consideration dates until an offer has been made and accepted.

Winterover Positions

These positions serve as the IceCube “winterovers,” and successful candidates will be deployed to the South Pole for 12-13 months. Training for two candidates typically begins in Madison, WI, in July prior to deployment to the South Pole, which is generally scheduled for early October. Deployments are for 12-13 months with no possibility of leaving during the winter months from mid-February to mid-October. No active position listings at this time.

Administration

None at this time.

Engineering/Computing

Research Systems Administrator

The cyberinfrastructure team at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) is seeking a Linux system administrator to join our software and operations team, which supports the operations of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a particle detector located at the geographic South Pole. The successful candidate will work on operating system deployment, configuration management, and monitoring of these systems. In particular, automated operating system deployment and configuration management with Puppet will be a strong focus. There will also be opportunities to work with large-scale cluster storage (Ceph) as well as high-throughput and grid computing systems (HTCondor and the Open Science Grid). More information and application instructions can be found following this link. Apply by March 24, 2024. 

Science/Programming

None at this time.

Other

None at this time.

IceCube Collaboration Employment Opportunities

Please check our collaborating institutions for additional opportunities.


Faculty

UW–Madison, US: None at this time.

Postdocs

UW–Madison, US: For general inquires about postdoc positions, please contact postdoc@icecube.wisc.edu. Note: postdoc applicants should have a PhD awarded within the past three years (maximum allowable is five years).

Current Postdoc Openings: WIPAC is currently hiring several postdoctoral scholars to work on multimessenger and particle astrophysics. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to carry out an active research program in one or more of a variety of topics, such as, but not limited to, neutrino astronomy with IceCube, neutrino oscillation physics with the IceCube Upgrade, and gamma-ray astronomy with HAWC or CTA. Applicants with previous experience in particle astrophysics observations, theory, or instrumentation are especially encouraged to apply.

All applicants will be considered for WIPAC’s John Bahcall Fellowship. The application deadline is December 20, 2023. For further information and specific application instructions, please visit https://hr.wisc.edu/postdoc-and-research-intern-vacancies/.

Graduate Students

UW–Madison, US: Current physics graduate students can contact a faculty member to find out about current openings. Prospective graduate students can find information about applying to UW–Madison at the Department of Physics Graduate Students Admissions Information website. Please check our Collaborating Institutions departmental webpages for information about their graduate programs.

Undergraduate Students

UW–Madison, US: Undergraduate students at UW–Madison can contact a faculty member for information about current openings. Non-UW–Madison undergraduate students can participate in Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) at UW–Madison.