What could possibly be better than working for South Africa’s national space agency (SANSA)?

How about working for SANSA at an Antarctic outpost studying space weather for over a year? Definitely cooler in the literal sense, figuratively… depending on how much you like snow.

The agency is currently looking for two electronic engineers on 24-month contracts to go pretty much to the South Pole and look after all of its monitoring equipment there. Initial training will be for three months at the Hermanus facility, where you’ll also work out the remainder of your contract after getting back from the cold place in February 2016.

SANSA’s looking for someone with an MSc or equivalent experience, capable of working “with minimal support”. Frankly, we’d add a requirement that you should be familiar with the work of John Carpenter too, but SANSA’s job description is more prosaic:

Design and build new equipment. Maintain and upgrade instrumentation. Install, commission, maintain, calibrate and modify electronic instruments and systems for the collection, reduction and analysis of data. Execute experiments related to Polar Space Weather studies. Give core engineering support.

The specifics are that you’ll be working where the Earth’s magnetic lines converge and funnel space plasma into the atmosphere.

Fancy it? You can apply here.

[Image – SANSA Antarctic Team, copyright SANSA]