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Ocean Colour Scientist Engineer Copernicus Sentinel3
2015-04-09 13:04:40| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
With 1.700 employees worldwide, the CS Group is a leading IT company in France and in Germany, and a prime contractor in designing, integrating and operating mission critical systems. It has now been over 30 years that comprehensive CS solutions for space systems and applications, both on the ground and in space, have been part and parcel of this odyssey. Our German activities grow at fast pace and to face our costumers high level expectations and needs, we are looking for talented profiles having relevant experience in Space systems and applications. This is an opportunity for a motivated and experienced engineer to work for our EUMETSAT customer within a new and interesting space mission. Sentinel3 is a Low Earth Orbiting mission in the context of the Copernicus Services set up by the European Commission. The first satellite, Sentinel3A, is expected to launch mid2015 with the second satellite Sentinel3B operating in tandem and due for launch 18 months later. EUMETSATs monitors and controls Sentinel 3 satellites and generates near realtime and offline products to support the marine user community. The activities for this position will include scientific and engineering aspects related to the scientific support to both Sentinel3 OLCI Levell TOA Radiance products and Level2 Ocean Colour products. This will include contributions to the scientific development, maintenance, Levell and Level2 processors, instrument calibration, algorithm and product validation, verification, routine monitoring and offline analysis of Levell and Level2 OLCI marine data products in support of the Copernicus Sentinel3 marine mission. The requested support is for the Sentinel3 OLCI Ocean Colour product chains nevertheless, assistance with other marine activities may be required. EUMETSA T disseminates Ocean Colour Third Party Data to Copernicus Marine Services and is in the process of developing OCrelated products from its own mandatory missions. The OLCI CalNal activities will require intercomparisons with Third Party Ocean Colour data sets. PROFILE Scientific support consultancy is sought mainly in the areas of optical imaging for oceanography products, in particular for Ocean Colour products. The engineer shall have the following mandatory experience and background University degree in remote sensing, oceanography, physics, or equivalent Good interpersonal skills in support of team work A 5 year or longer experience with satellite Ocean Colour Handson experience with the calibration and the validation of remote sensing products Hands on experience with the development of calibration and product validationmethods and tools Familiarity with the precursor to the Sentinel3 Ocean Colour mission Experience with operational satellite data processing Mandatory 5 years of scientific programming skills C, IDLPVWAVE and ENVIor equivalent Skills in writing technical and scientific documents Familiarity with Linux programming environment and Microsoft Office. The following experience would be highly desirable Experience with calibration and characterization of Ocean Colour instruments and with calibration validation Experience in the development and validation of Ocean Colour data processing Experience with the development of product monitoring tools Experience with large data sets. Fluency in English is mandatory as this is the working language at EUMETSAT. The engineer must be able to work effectively in this language. Benefits Competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package including 30 days holiday and EUMETSAT ESOC additional holidays 34 per year, generous training possibilities, and monetary participation in your pension scheme is offered to the successful candidate. TASKS The tasks and responsibilities will include Support to validation and verification of Level2 Ocean Colour algorithms and Level2 and Level3 products Support to OLCI instrument characterization and calibration and to verification of Levell products Support to the scientific and engineering development of calibration and validation methods as well as implementation of new tools and utilisation of existing tools Support to the development of new tools for product processing monitoring and utilisation of existing tools Investigation of anomalies and issues related to Level 1 and Level 2 product quality Support to the setup and operation of product quality monitoring and reporting tools Contribution to the analysis, assessment and maintenance of LlL2 Ocean Colour satellite data processors and algorithms Contribution to scientific development of algorithms to support CaiN al activities Contribution to the execution of scientific support studies. The engineer will work in a matrix structure providing crossdivisional support to the Copernicus Sentinel3 Operations Team and will be a member of the oceanography team of experts and scientists of the RSPMASection of the TSS Department. The support will involve crossdivisional interactions and interface with experts in various disciplines system engineering, instruments, operations, science, as well as CaiN al experts outside of EUMETSAT. The engineer will work at EUMETSAT Headquarters, located in Darmstadt,Germany. How to apply Please consider the following points before applying Please submit your complete application documents in English. An attached cover letter should mention your availability and salary expectations. Interested applicants should submit their CV to marina.ludwigcssystems.de with CC to francoisxavier.laffontcs.fr with the job title. Due to new work permit restrictions for this position, please apply only if you are citizen of a European Union state or if you hold all appropriate documentation and permits to work in Europe. Closing date 09 April 2015 Start June 2015
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