Science Officer?

[ndkid (OP)]

I know I've seen other people mention assigning a science officer. I have just built my first ship with a science department, but when I go to commander assignment, nothing shows up in the list when I select "Science Officer" in the dropdown. Is there something else this ship class needs to enable the ability to have a science officer? (This is v1.40.)

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De Soto class Geosurvey Ship      2,151 tons       43 Crew       240.5 BP       TCS 43    TH 63    EM 0
1453 km/s      Armour 1-14       Shields 0-0       HTK 13      Sensors 0/0/0/1      DCR 1      PPV 0
Maint Life 9.45 Years     MSP 469    AFR 37%    IFR 0.5%    1YR 9    5YR 142    Max Repair 100 MSP
Commander    Control Rating 2   BRG   SCI   
Intended Deployment Time: 18 months    Morale Check Required   

Mitsubishi 62.5x1250 Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine  EP62.5 (1)    Power 62.5    Fuel Use 11.18%    Signature 62.5    Explosion 5%
Fuel Capacity 100,000 Litres    Range 74.9 billion km (596 days at full power)

Geological Survey Sensors (1)   1 Survey Points Per Hour

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

[Erik L]

Do you have a rank lower than Commander?

[smoelf]

At the moment I can get the science officer job to appear, if I select only officers from the lowest rank. it works the same way, that you need to select a name of a particular officer type to get the jobs to appear, but for the science officer, only the lowest ranking officers can have that job (it seems), so it doesn't show if you select higher ranking officers.

[ndkid (OP)]

Thank you both, what I was missing was that if I happened to have selected an officer that was too _high_ a level for the role, the role wouldn't show up on the list.
(I now wish I knew how Steve used this screen because, for me, it feels far more intuitive for the default to be a complete list of open positions and selecting one filters the list of officers than the default being a complete list of officers with the open positions, which are divided up behind a List Box, getting filtered.)