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Quality Assurance for Essential Climate Variables Consultancy Support
2016-09-13 10:05:00| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Since 1979, Italian ACS has been a Software System Integrator. As a Payload Data Ground Segment specialist, ACS develops componentssubsystemsground stations for satellite data acquisition, processing and dissemination. The company is active in geospatial multisource applications development for planning and management of environmental risks infrastructures and realtime handling of large data streams. ACS offer to their customers the complete range of services from the collection of user requirements to operational activities support. Our German subsidiary ACSD provides consultancy service at EUMETSAT Darmstadt. Selected candidate will sign permanent full time contract and work at EUM premises. Besides an opportunity to work in international environment, ACS can offer competitive salary, attractive benefits package tailored to specific needs, training and career growth within ACS group, support for relocation to Darmstadt. For our activities in Germany, we are looking for a person to provide Quality Assurance for Essential Climate Variables Consultancy Support. TASKS Generation of data records Analysis of the data record quality employing quality monitoring procedures and other validation techniques and data as appropriate Acquisition of relevant data from internal and external sources to support product quality monitoring Support implementation, processing and validation of the product with other international partners e.g. JMA, NOAANCDC Preparation of QA4ECV data for ingestion into the EUMETSAT Data Centre Compilation of relevant data set documentation including validation reports, user guides and format descriptions Compilation of project result presentations and participation in project progress meetings. REQUIRED University degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline Strong technical skills with a minimum of 1 year experience in the implementation of software for delayed mode processing of satellite data Programming languages CC andor FORTRAN Working in unixlinux environment Scripting languages, such as Python, Perl, shell Analysis and graphic software such as IDL Data formats such as NetCDF4, GRIB, HDF5, and BUFR Processing and monitoring of large volume of remote sensing data Validation of satellite products Able to work effectively in English and have knowledge of French Good communication and presentation skills Able to conduct all activities in an orderly and structured manner, able to work calmly and correctly and with the minimum of supervision EU national or valid work permit for Germany CV in Europass format Distinct advantage Operational product processing environments Data bases such as MySQL and Oracle EUMETSAT Meteosat missions and instruments Retrieval of parameters using visible wave lengths Calibration of satellite observations in the visible spectral range
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