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Senior Software Engineer
2014-08-05 12:41:39| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
About us SCISYS Deutschland GmbH provides professional engineering and consultancy services to spacecraft operators and spacecraft primes. Our team is composed of university graduates and experienced professionals, comprising some of the most knowledgeable, dedicated and talented engineers across Europe. Our services cover the whole life cycle of space programmes from early concepts to operations. Our Space Division provides a dynamic, supportive and friendly atmosphere in which you are encouraged to lead with initiative. We support new ideas from our colleagues and are focused on supporting space programmes and missions. We have a strong presence at ESOC and EUMETSAT, as well as serving other ESA sites, the German Space Operations Centre and the German Galileo Control Centre. Moreover, we actively manage your professional development, training and career progression. For the location in Garching, near Munich we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer at The European Southern Observatory ESO. Tasks The Pipeline Systems Department in the Directorate of Engineering DoE is developing the Very Large Telescope VLT and Very Large Telescope Inferometer VLTI data reduction pipelines for the operational instruments at La Silla Paranal observatory. The data reduction pipelines are used in two operational environments, by the ESO Data Flow Operations at Garching, and by the Paranal Science Operations PSO, for the quicklook assessment of data, the healthmonitoring of instruments and detectors, the generation of master calibration data, the reduction of scientific exposures, and data Quality control. The Exposure Time Calculators ETC are a suite of Web applications provided for the ESO Call for Proposals. The total usage of the system peaks to about 35 000 simulation runs during the Call for Proposals periods in March and September each year httpwww.eso.orgobservingetc. The work involves Preparation of data reduction procedures for the ESO VLT pipelines Implementation of these parts in ANSIC with the ESOCPL library for information, see www.eso.orgcpl and www.eso.orgpipelines and the HighLevel Data Reduction Library HDRL. Maintenance and development of C and Python ETC Web applications for the VLT and VLT Interferometer VLTI. Essential requirements The ideal consultant is a software engineer with A university degree in Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent. Minimum 3 years experience in developing scientific data processing applications in ANSIC and C Good knowledge of processing and statistical handling of scientific data Experience in a UnixLinux environment. Ability to participate in any of the maintenance and development efforts in support of ESOs team, contributing to the entire software lifecycle, from analysis to design, coding, documentation and testing, to deployment and maintenance Experience in software development tools version control, development environments, debuggers, profilers Excellent command of the English language and very good communication skills. Ability to interact with the instrument scientists at the operational sites for the specification of data reduction procedures Ability to operate, in collaboration with ESOs team, to also work independently and meet the agreed deadlines. It would be an advantage to have some of the following Excellent knowledge of image and signal processing methods Excellent knowledge of Web technologies and frameworks Good knowledge of the Python programming language Knowledge of astronomical instrumentation and observational techniques in astrophysics imaging, adaptive optics, spectroscopy and the related data reduction methods Experience with multithreaded programming Other Information Start date is 1st January 2015 Fluency in English is mandatory Candidates must be EU citizens or hold a valid German work and residence visa To ensure your application reaches us please apply online at httpwww.scisys.despacejobs
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