Job Postings

• Informal, non-comprehensive list of grad opportunities for Fall 2022 (updated periodically by Dr. Sarah Hörst of Johns Hopkins University)

See also our resources page with a list of universities with planetary science programs.

• Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowships at The Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC - Deadline: 11/1/21

• NASA Postdoctoral Program Opportunities – Deadline: March 1, July 1, and November 1, annually

• Pan Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rice University, Houston, TX - Deadline: 11/3/21

• Postdoctoral Fellowships in Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences at MIT, Cambridge, MA - Deadline 11/20/21

• Postdoctoral Position in Infrared Spectroscopy at Stony Brook University - Deadline: 10/15/2021

• Postdoctoral Research Fellowships - American Museum of Natural History in New York, NY - Deadline: 11/15/21

• Postdoctoral Researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, TX – Deadline: Permanent Call

• Postdoctoral Researcher for Planetary Mapping of Impact Craters through LPI in Houston, TX – Deadline: Until Filled

• Postdoctoral Researcher in Geophysics/Planetary Physics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany – Deadline: Until Filled

• Postdoctoral Researcher in Isotope Geochemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany – Deadline: Until Filled

• Postdoctoral Researcher in Modeling of Martian Habitability at LPI, Houston, TX - Deadline: 12/3/21

• Assistant Professor - Origins of Life Cluster Hire at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - Deadline: 11/1/21

• Assistant Professor in Planetary Geoscience at University of Iowa - Deadline: Until Filled

• Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley - Deadline: 10/14/2021

• Assistant Professor in the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems at Washington University in St. Louis - Deadline: 11/24/21

• Assistant Professor- Physics & Astronomy, Exoplanets at University of Texas at San Antonio, TX - Deadline: 11/1/21

• Assistant Research Scientist-Planetary and Space Plasma Physics at University of California, Berkeley - Deadline: 10/25/21

• Open Rank (Tenure-Track/Tenured) Faculty Position in Planetary Geochemistry at University of California, Los Angeles, CA - Deadline: 10/29/21

• Open Rank (Tenure-Track/Tenured) Faculty Position in Space Physics at UCLA – Deadline: 11/1/2021

• Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Space Physics at Brown University, Providence, RI - Deadline: 12/1/21

• Tenure Track Faculty Position in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, Houston, TX - Deadline: 10/31/2021

• Tenure-track Faculty Position in Earth and Planetary Science at University of Chicago, IL - Deadline: 11/1/2021

• Lunar Geotechnical Scientist at Jacobs, Houston, TX - Deadline: Until Filled

• Mission Control Space Services in Ottawa, Canada - Deadline: Permanent Call

• Scientist, Lunar Seismologist - Planetary Interiors And Geophysics Group at JPL, Pasadena, CA - Deadline: 10/24/21

• Staff Scientist for PSI through flexible or remote locations – Deadline: Permanent Call

Because there are many engineering jobs and many types of engineering, this section serves as a reference for those who want to continue in space engineering. This focuses on companies that conduct lunar and planetary exploration work in addition to specific job postings.

• Astrobotic Technology, Inc.

• Ceres Robotics

• Deep Space Systems

• Draper

• Firefly Aerospace, Inc

• Honeybee Robotics

• Intuitive Machines, LLC

• Jacobs

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

• Lockheed Martin Space

• Masten Space Systems, Inc.

• Mission Control Space Services, Inc.

• Moon Express

• NASA

• Orbit Beyond

• Paragon Space Development Corporation

• Space Talent

• SpaceX

• Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc.

• United Launch Alliance