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Research FellowSatellite Mission Operation Centre Manager
2016-02-18 12:07:27| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Research FellowSatellite Mission Operation Centre Manager Department of Electrical Electronic Engineering Guildford 30,738 to 37,768 Fixed Term 2 year Full Time Ref 005416 The Surrey Space Centre SSC, part of the Department of Electronic Engineering, is a worldclass institution for space research. The successful candidate will join one of the largest space systems groups in Europe and who will be responsible in managing the SSC Ground Station. The SSC groundstation is a distributed, Linuxbased system that uses Python scripts to connect a central computer controller to several software and hardware peripherals. The candidate should continue the work done by previous developers to support research, produce a robust and automated system that is able to activate and control these peripherals on an ondemand basis according to an automated schedule but able to be interrupted or modified by a human operator. This is a 24 month contract. The candidate should have experience or be familiar with Python and PyQT GUI programming Socket programming, RPC RF basics such as antennas, power amplifiers and filtering including link budget analysis, RF system measurements noise, power, VSWR etc. Hardware interfacing especially legacy serial port handling and knowledge of using APIs in software development. Linux programming, especially Bash scripting and automation SQL databases, data management. Communications theory and softwaredefined radio design especially GnuRadio and internet security experience is an advantage. For further information, please contact Prof Guglielmo Aglietti at g.agliettisurrey.ac.uk Closing date Sunday 28 February 2016 Interview date Thursday 10 March 2016
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