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EUCLID Software Engineer
2015-01-20 17:08:01| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Aurora is an established supplier of skilled manpower to ESA and in particular at ESTEC and ESAC. Aurora has the opportunity to expand our support within the Science and Robotic Exploration Directorate DSRE. Aurora currently has a team of 20 engineers and scientists at ESAC. Overview The work is to support the ESA Science Ground Segment SGS team which is forming the Euclid Science Operations Centre SOC that will build the Science Ground Segment in collaboration with the Euclid Consortium. The Euclid SOC will execute and monitor the sky survey, perform initial processing on the science telemetry stream and provide the Euclid archive. The Euclid SOC will work with the Euclid Consortium in the area of instrument operations coordination. Euclid is a highprecision survey mission in the Cosmic Vision Programme of ESA designed to answer fundamental questions on Dark Energy and Dark Matter. Euclid will map the largescale structure of the universe over the entire extragalactic sky out to redshifts of 2 about 10 billion years ago, thus covering the period over which dark energy accelerated the universe expansion. The mission is optimized for two primary cosmological probes Weak gravitational Lensing WL and Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations BAO. The distributed nature of Euclid development requires the service provider to communicate with developers and operations scientists at ESAC as well as with experts within the Euclid Consortium in order to support the software development and survey generation and monitoring, and the development and operations of the instrument command generation system. The Euclid SGS will have interfaces with the Euclid Consortium Instrument Operations Teams, the Euclid Mission Operations Centre MOC at ESOC and the Scientific Community. The SGS is based at the European Space Astronomy Centre ESAC in Villanueva de la Canada, Madrid, Spain. The job is intended to provide a number of specialised services to support ESA in developing science operations systems and tools, including System engineering and architectural design activities, including operating plans and procedures, Designing, developing, implementing, testing, deploying, operating and maintaining software tools and systems, e.g. Observation proposal handling, mission planning and quicklook systems, parts of which may be distributed to the community User support tools Interactive analysis and calibration systems, to be distributed as needed to the community for data reduction and analysis Data processing pipelines Scientific data archives and interfacing these to the Virtual Observatory VO. Scientific and technical WWW systems to support the SOC, SGS and the scientific community Contribute to the definition of Interface Control Documents ICDs and file interchange formats with external coordination units Organise and perform end to end system testing with the scientific communities Contribute to the maintenance of the overall system, including configuration control and versioning Specific Service Tasks The main area of activity will provide a number of specialised services to support ESA in development and maintenance of the telemetry processing and analysis systems that will monitor the scientific health of the payload and the survey status. The service supports the software development of the quick look, science health monitoring and auxiliary services and tools by designing, implementing, installing, maintaining, testing and documenting these systems. As part of the service the following main activities will have to be carried out a Generic tasks native to Software Development and Maintenance Develop and maintain modules, applications and tools specific to product generation framework and quality control framework Ensure timely delivery of SW releases and relative increments Perform SW architectural design as needed Prepare and maintain SW documentation. Develop and maintain unit test harnesses Report on progress and problem areas Participate in the Configuration Control Boards applicable to the development Followingup and tracking the correction and resolution of problem reports Implement approved software enhancement requests b Tasks specific to the Euclid SOC Development and Maintenance Develop and maintain the Euclid quick look system within the SOC software development environment Develop and maintain the Euclid health monitoring system within the SOC software development environment Develop and maintain the additional tools to process auxiliary data within the SOC software development environment Delivery of software to the configuration control system Support to definition of ICDs controlling the interface of the quick look system to SOCinternal and external systems Support to definition of ICDs controlling the interface of the health monitoring system to SOCinternal and external systems Support to definition of ICDs controlling the interface of the services providing auxiliary data to SOCinternal and external systems Communicate with operations team at ESAC and instrument experts in the Euclid Consortium c Tasks specific to validation and operation of the Euclid SOC system Deploy and configure new versions of the quick look, health monitoring and auxiliary data provision systems on the validation and operational systems Test and validate new deliveries of software, including regression testing Report on progress and problem areas Participate in the Configuration Control Boards applicable to the development Specific qualification requirements University degree preferably Masters in a scientific or technical subject. Relevant professional experience of at least 5 years in software development. In particular, possess the following experience, knowledge and proficiency in At least five years relevant experience in professional software development and software engineering coding with experience with Python applications with good broad knowledge of Python. Implementation of data processing, imaging processing and statistical techniques with Python e.g. using numpy, scipy and matplotlib. Handling common astronomical file formats e.g. FITS. Development andor maintenance of complex ground segment systems. Software system architecture. Software development with specific experience in object oriented software design and development using version control systems. Software development processes and tools configuration management, code generation, continuous integration, automated testing, metrics, coding styles and rules. Working knowledge of Linux systems. Modelling technologies and methodologies and IDE UML. Experience with configuration control systems Subversion. Experience writing user documentation is an advantage. Knowledge of data structures is an advantage. Knowledge of design patterns is an advantage. ECSS Packet Utilization Standard PUS services SCOS2000 Mission Information Base MIB structures. Working with ESA Standards, Frameworks and Tools e.g. ECSS. In addition applicants should Have good communications skills. Be able to document their work. Be willing to travel regularly to ESA establishments andor Instrument teams institutes. Be comfortable in an international working environment and be fluent in English a high level of written and spoken English is essential. Legal and Security Requirements All applicants must be legally allowed to work in Spain without the need to obtain a work visa. Only European Union citizens can be employed by Aurora in Spain. Applicants are required to provide a copy of their passport and degree certificate. Aurora will validate the Degree with the issuing University and provide evidence to ESA. Prior to issuing a letter of employment the applicant shall provide to Aurora a recent official document declaring that they are of good conduct from the country where currently resident. Location The work will be performed at the ESAC, the European Space Astronomy Centre, at Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain. Contract You will be registered for both social security and tax in Spain. The standard working hours are 40 per week. There are 12 public holidays and an additional 29 annual days holiday. In addition to public health services Aurora provides private medical insurance in Spain. Training to improve efficiency and provide strength for future career are of course included. Aurora can assist financially and provide recent experience information for relocation. To be considered for this Position Provide prior to 10 February 2015 a summary of why you are a good candidate for the position together with a complete and detailed Recruitment Form to Mr. Andy McGarry, at email andy.mcgarryaurora.nl quoting reference SRE100. Aurora will agree conditional employment terms and conditions with candidates before presenting their detailed technical proposal and candidates to ESA by 16 February 2015.
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