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Software Engineer for Gaia Science Operations fm
2013-01-23 12:37:51| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
About us SCISYS Deutschland GmbH provides professional engineering and consultancy services supporting space programmes and missions. We have a strong presence at ESOC and EUMETSAT, as well as serving all ESA sites, ESO, Columbus Control Centre, the German Galileo Control Centre 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 innovation. Moreover, we actively manage your professional development, training and career progression. For our project near Madrid in Spain we are looking for a Software Engineer for Gaia Science Operations fm at ESAC. Tasks 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. Each object will be seen about 100 times over the fiveyear mission. The data reduction of the 100 Terabytes of downlinked data is estimated to require a Petabyte storage system. The processing will be 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 DPAC especially in the overall architecture and the core processing. The core processing includes initial data treatment and the Astrometric Global Iterative Solution AGIS to solve for the many unknown astrometric parameters. The processing is distributed over five locations and ESAC will form the hub for data exchange via the Main Database. This main database will form the input for all processing and will be augmented with the output of all processing to arrive at a new version. The production of processing software for Gaia has started and will continue through operations to final catalogue production in 2019. The SOC maintains core software as well as receiving packages from external entities to be integrated and run in SOC. Work is to be carried out on the core systems provided by SOC including the Main Database and GaiaTools. These are large bodies of code and the chosen candidate will be required to quickly come to grips with the code base and implement big fixes and enhancements. The chosen language for the Gaia Core processing is Java and requires candidates to possess strong Java skills. Essential Requirements The service to be provided requires the following qualification, knowledge and experience A University degree or equivalent in computer science or related fields Large DBMS, distributed processing, numerical and statistical techniques 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 Large Databasesdata processing 1TB The selected person must be willing operate in a team environment and to travel. The person should be comfortable in an international working environment and be fluent in English, one of the official languages of ESA. The candidate should be aware of required documentation for a large project. Desirable Skills The following knowledge and expirience would be regarded as an asset Experience working with large data volumes, ICDs, data dictionaries LaTeX Basic educational or workacquired knowledge of astronomyphysics and standard numerical methods and techniques Experience in interacting with the science community Good interpersonal and communication skills Additional Information The candidate must have a valid Spanish work and residence permit or be an EU Citizen Start date is 01 March 2013 To guarantee that your application is processed, please apply via our website httpwww.scisys.co.ukdewowirarbeitenspacekarrierespacejobs.html
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