14.04.2026 LHO Electrical Engineering Lead The LIGO Laboratory and LIGO Hanford Observatory invite applications for an Electrical Engineering Lead. We also ask that you circulate this announcement within your networks and encourage strong candidates to apply. Job Summary: At LIGO Hanford you’ll coordinate a skilled team of engineers and technicians in the design, testing, and maintenance of precision analog and digital electronics, playing a key role in the day-to-day operations of a one-of-a-kind scientific facility. You’ll collaborate with a diverse, international community of scientists and engineers, and have the opportunity to contribute to research that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible. This is a leadership role where your technical skills…

14.04.2026 LIGO Laboratory Job Opening: Project Mechanical Designer/Drafter, LIGO Caltech The LIGO Laboratory has a job posting for a Project Mechanical Designer/Drafter, LIGO Caltech, reporting to Arnaud Pele. Anticipated start date: As soon as possible, Full-time position, Regular-staff position. Feel free to contact the LIGO Laboratory Staff Relations and Administrative Manager, Lorna Campbell, for more information, OR feel free to contact the Hiring Manager Arnaud Pele, for more information about this position. Read more

14.04.2026 Postdoc position at Kyushu University The Quantum and Spacetime Research Institute (QuaSR), Kyushu University, is seeking applications for an Academic Researcher position in the field of experimental gravitational wave physics. The successful candidate will conduct research in experimental gravitational wave physics in collaboration with Dr. Satoshi Tanioka (scheduled to join QuaSR, Kyushu University). The research will focus on fundamental technologies for quantum measurements in space, including laser interferometers, optical cavities, and related systems. Application deadline: June 30, 2026. Read more

09.04.2026 PhD Scholarships – Statistics, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitational Wave Astronomy in New Zealand The NZ Astrostatistics and General Relativity Group (NZ Gravity) is a cross-institutional research team spanning astrophysics, cosmology, mathematics and statistics with members at five New Zealand universities as well as international collaborators within the Vera Rubin Observatory and the International LISA Consortium. The NZ Astrostatistics and General Relativity Group (NZ Gravity) is coordinating applications for several PhD scholarships. Potential candidates will be part of an interdisciplinary team, working in areas such as: Interstellar objects, Stellar populations, Supernovae, Large scale structure formation and ultralight dark matter, Engaging with the Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and…

08.04.2026 PhD position, Experimental optics and Simulation for Scattered Light Metrology at ARTEMIS A PhD position is available at the ARTEMIS Laboratory, Nice, France, in collaboration with Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Annecy, France. PhD position, Experimental optics and Simulation for Scattered Light Metrology. This PhD project aims to develop an instrument for identifying the optical components in Virgo’s benches responsible for stray light. The project is led by Frederic Cleva, Eleonora Polini, and Marie Anne Bizouard at the ARTEMIS Laboratory, and Michal Was at LAPP. Please direct any questions you might have to frederic.cleva(at)oca.eu. Please submit your application by April 30 2026. Read more

07.04.2026 PhD Positions at Institute of Astrophysics – FORTH The Institute of Astrophysics at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (IA-FORTH) invites applications for several PhD positions broadly on supermassive black hole binaries to work in Dr Maria Charisi’s group, funded by the ERC Starting Grant MMMonsters. MMMonsters aims to detect supermassive black hole binaries using electromagnetic (time-domain) and gravitational-wave (PTA) data and the combination of the two. Application deadline: April 15 2026. Read more