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Science Operations Software Engineer for Gaia
2013-01-18 13:41:52| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
HE Space is a successful international space company. For 30 years, we have been supporting our customers with qualified experts in the field of engineering, science and administration. We are currently looking for a Science Operations Software Engineer for Gaia to support our customer in Spain. Science Operations Software Engineer for Gaia Key Tasks and Responsibilities In this role you will be working onsite at ESAC as part of the Gaia mission. The Gaia mission is planning to map to microarcsecond accuracy 1 of the stellar population of our galaxy that is around one thousand million objects. The data reduction of the 100 Terabytes of downlinked data is estimated to require a Petabyte storage system. The processing will be a community wide effort performed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium DPAC in which ESAC plays a coordination role. The ESAC team is forming Gaias Science Operations Centre SOC and is heavily involved in the overall architecture and the core processing which is distributed over five locations and ESAC will form the hub for data exchange via the Main Database. You will support ESA in developing science operations systems and tools, including System engineering and architectural design activities, including operating plans and procedures Designing, developing, implementing, testing, deploying, operating and maintaining software tools and systems, eg o observation proposal handling, mission planning and quicklook systems, parts of which may be distributed to the community, o user support tools, o interactive analysis and calibration systems, to be distributed as needed to the community for data reduction and analysis, o data processing pipelines, o Scientific data archives and interfacing these to the virtual observatory. Skills Experience You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience University degree or equivalent in computer science or related fields Strong Java skills Knowledge and experience in at least some of the following is essential large DBMS, distributed processing, numerical and statistical techniques Knowledge of ECSS standards for software development, JDK 1.7 RMI Generics, OO design, distributed processing, numerical programming in Java, JUnit Eclipse Ant, JDBC DBMS interaction, subversion and large Databasesdata processing 1TB Basic educational or workacquired knowledge of astronomyphysics and standard numerical methods and techniques would be a strong asset Experience working with large data volumes, ICDs, data dictionaries would be an asset Experience in interacting with the science community would be an advantage Fluency in English is mandatory. This job is located near Madrid, Spain. We are looking for candidates who are available from March 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send us your CV together with a letter of motivation both in English to Ms Sarah Gonschorek at jobshespace.com, quoting job reference NLSC1911 before 08 Feb 2013. An exciting and dynamic international working environment awaits you!
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