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Copernicus Climate Change Service Atmospheric Sounding Engineer
2016-10-12 10:03:49| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
SCISYS Deutschland GmbH provides professional engineering and consultancy services supporting space programmes and missions. We have a strong presence at ESOC and EUMETSAT, as well as serving all ESA sites and spacecraft primes. Our team is composed of university graduates and experienced professionals, comprising some of the most knowledgeable, dedicated and talented engineers across Europe. Our services cover the whole life cycle of space programmes from early concepts to operations. Our Space Division provides a dynamic, supportive and friendly atmosphere in which you are encouraged to lead with initiative. We support new ideas from our colleagues and are focused on innovation. Moreover, we actively manage your professional development, training and career progression. For the location in Darmstadt Germany we are looking for a Copernicus Climate Change Service Atmospheric Sounding Engineer fm Tasks She shall perform following main tasks Import and implementation of microwave sounder correction software provided by CM SAF infrared sounder software, including updated calibration and uncertainty quantification methods provided by the FIDUCEO project Scientific analysis of the meta data and raw data quality for the additional historical HIRS instruments infrared and microwave FCDRs quality including uncertainty estimates employing quality monitoring procedures, e.g., the Virtual Observatory and other validation techniques and data as appropriate Support to the acquisition and archiving of all infrared and microwave sounder instrument data Acquisition of relevant data from internal and external sources to support product quality monitoring Support to the preparation of data records for the submission to the C3S CDS and ingestion into the EUMETSAT Data Centre Compilation of relevant data record documentation including validation reports, user guides and format descriptions Compilation of presentations and reports for the reporting to C3S and participation in C3S progress meetings as required Essential requirements University degree in in a relevant natural science subject Use of atmospheric sounder data for climate monitoring Measurement uncertainty analysis principles and methods Time series analysis methods applicable to satellite data Radiative transfer in the infrared and microwave spectral range Implementation and use of software for delayed mode processing of satellite data Programming using CC or Fortran 95 and higher programming languages as well as scripting languages, such as Python, Perl, Shell Working in unixlinux environments Data formats such as NetCDF4, HDF5, GRIB, BUFR and the decoding of historical data formats Desirable requirements Use of data bases such as MySQL and Oracle Calibration of infrared and microwave satellite instruments Basic understanding of System Engineering Concepts Processing and monitoring of large volume of remote sensing data Familiarity with operational procedures for software verification and validation Operational product processing environments Other Information Start date is January 2017
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