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Euclid, Science Operations Support Engineer
2013-03-29 16:35:50| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Euclid, Science Operations Support Engineer, based at European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. With over 1500 staff in the space business covering a wide spectrum of experience and skills, we convey best practice, expertise and innovation in our business. All members of our recruitment team have extensive space experience, so have the insight necessary to support you through the application process. For our activities in the European Space Agency, ESAC, we are currently seeking to employ an Engineer to support the Euclid mission Overview 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 ESAC team is forming the Euclid Science Operations Centre SOC, which 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. You will work on the survey planning system, which will plan the Euclid Sky Survey and the instrument commanding system, which will be in use during the operational phases of the mission. The successful candidate who fills this position will be Experience in interacting with the science community Willing to operate in a team environment and to travel Posses good interpersonal and communication skills Comfortable in an international working environment and be fluent in English Specific tasks The service to be provided by the successful applicant for this position will encompass contributing to the system requirements definition, design, implementation and testing of the survey planning and instrument command generation systems to be used within the Euclid Science Ground Segment. They will develop prototype code for the survey planning and instrument commanding tools. The development will be in done in Java to enable reuse of existing code from other missions located at ESAC. They will work in the Engineering team of the Euclid SOC under the System Engineer and will interface with the major stakeholders of these systems the Sky Survey Working Group, SOC Calibration and Operations Team, Instrument Operations Teams and Euclid Mission Operations Centre. Qualifications and Requirements Applicants require a University degree, or equivalent, in computer science, or related fields together with either an educational, or workacquired, knowledge of astronomyphysics and standard numerical methods and techniques would be a strong asset. A working understanding of space operations would be highly desirable You will have a solid Java background, a minimum of 4 years. A good knowledge of ECSS standards Aware of required documentation on a large project. You should be selfmotivated and be able to work independently, with the ability to take initiative and proactively seek solutions to problems would be valued. Essential Software engineering in Java Science mission planning and instrument commanding Spacecraft attitude and orbit and the corresponding standard Flight Dynamics interfaces ECSS standards for software development Desirable ECSS Packet Utilisation Standard PUS services SCOS2000 Mission Information Base MIB structure Scripting in a Unix environment e.g. Python Applications If you believe you have the skills and experience for the above post then please submit your application via our eRecruitment website. httpswww.amris.comsercorequirementdisplay.php?refSearchrequirementid41025 Mandatory Applicants must hold a current valid work permit for the Spain or be EU nationals. If you have any questions regarding this opportunity please address them to our recruitment team at space.careersserco.com Position Euclid, Science Operations Support Engineer Reference RTCSRE034 Application closing date 21April2013 Start date June 2013 Important Please be aware that security clearance may be part of the selection process Please also take the opportunity to register with Serco eRecruitment for automatic email alerts for new opportunities httpswww.amris.comsercoalertssignupform.php For additional information about Serco Group please consult our website www.serco.com For additional information about Serco Europe please consult our website www.serco.comeurope
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