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Maintenance and Software Engineer
2015-07-22 11:04:33| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
WHO ARE WE? GMV www.gmv.com is a privately owned technological enterprise group with an international presence employing more than 1.100 staff. Founded in 1984, GMV mainly operates in eight large sectors for both public and private organizations Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications and Information Technologies. GMV currently runs eight work centers in Spain Tres Cantos Madrid headquarters, Boecillo Valladolid, Seville, Barcelona, Valencia, Tenerife, Len, Zaragoza and also work centers in Lisbon Portugal, Rockville Maryland, USA, Darmstadt Germany, Warsaw Poland, Bucharest Romania, Malaysia, Toulouse France and New Delhi India. We recruit and hire excellent engineers, and encourage innovation, technical excellence and continuing education. Our engineers regularly present papers at technical conferences, continue their education more than 85 have a masters degree, and we reinvest more than 12 of budget in IRD projects. This striving for excellence, innovation and flexibility is a major part of our culture. We provide very competitive compensation, attractive benefits, and a great work environment with lots of opportunities for professional growth. JOB DESCRIPTION Maintenance and Software Engineer Responsibilities Duties Tasks The major areas of support are foreseen as follow Maintenance of ISS to support Paranal Science Operations current instruments AMBER and PIONIER. Maintenance of ISS to support GRAVITY instrument commissioning. Development of extensions for the integration and commissioning of CIAO, the GRAVITY Active Optics system. Development of extensions for the integration and commissioning of MATISSE instrument. Development of extensions and maintenance for integration test code simulating instruments and exercising all VLTI subsystems available on VLTI Control Model. Implementation and test of new features according to approved Change Requests Upgrade to new releases of VLT Common software, including upgrade of Operating System and WS platform. Qualifications University degree in Computer science, physics or equivalent. Required knowledge Capability to properly plan, set and adjust priorities in agreement with ESO project representative. Identify key issues, examine options and propose solutions. Familiarity with Astronomy environment, in particular Interferometry. Familiarity with Telescope control software, in particular ESO VLT Control software. Preparedness and physical fitness for travelling to Paranal Chile 2600m for short missions when required. Experience Minimum ten years experience in development, integration and testing of complex software applications running on UNIX platforms, preferably Scientific Linux, realtime OS vxWorks, and sound knowledge of programming languages C, C, Matlab and scripting languages UNIX shell, TclTk. Minimum five years experience with software engineering standards and tools version control, problem reporting systems, software build. ESO is using SVN and JIRA since about three years. WHAT DO WE OFFER? As soon as they join the organization our professionals are given the chance to tackle technological challenges in an innovative environment, to work in multidisciplinary teams and deal directly with clients. This helps them to mature quickly as professionals. We provide continual topup training to keep our career professionals perfectly abreast of all technologies used. We offer a permanent contract and attractive package including a highly competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package. If you would like to work in an interesting, fun, fastpaced, challenging, diverse and global company which is growing rapidly, please send us your resume to jobsgmv.com For more information about GMV, please visit our website at www.gmv.com
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