Astronomical Computation Engineer

1.5 month

About the role

You are an engineer or computer scientist who has taken a deep interest in Vedic Astrology and can bridge the gap between traditional Jyotish calculations and modern computational astronomy. Your primary role is to programmatically verify planetary position calculations using Python astronomical libraries, validate Ayanamsa transformations, and create code-based verification scripts that serve as ground-truth generators for the evaluation dataset. You are equally comfortable debugging a Swiss Ephemeris call as you are discussing Nirayana vs Sayana coordinate systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Write Python verification scripts using pyswisseph (Swiss Ephemeris Python bindings) and/or Skyfield to independently compute and verify: Planetary longitudes (geocentric, apparent) for any given date/time/location, Nirayana longitude conversion by applying specified Ayanamsa (Lahiri, Krishna...