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System and Software Engineer for Herschel Science Operations fm
2013-08-02 12:35:10| 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 System and Software Engineer for Herschel Science Operations fm at ESAC. Tasks The objective of the service support to be provided is to continue development of the Herschel Science Data Processing system by designing, implementing, maintaining, testing and documenting data analysis modules written in Java and Jython on a Linux platform. This software is developed jointly between ESA, the three Herschel instrument teams and the NASA Herschel Science Center, with ESA coordinating the overall development and providing the framework within which the instrument teams can develop and optimise instrumentspecific data reduction algorithms. The Herschel Data Processing System serves both as the basis to generate standard pipeline products and as tool to analyse Herschel data interactively. The Herschel Data Processing System is distributed to the astronomical community. Specific tasks beyond generalpurpose software development include Development and maintenance of the Herschel standard product generation and quality control framework. This framework is used for pipeline data processing for all Herschel data Graphical user interface GUI development and maintenance Development and maintenance of the Herschel Interactive Analysis system. This system is used by the astronomical community to exploit Herschel data in detail Development and maintenance of data structures, including accessing them locally and from object oriented and relational databases Development and maintenance of numerical libraries Setting up and providing access to webservices working in the VO context Writing and maintenance of documentation Provision and maintenance of test harnesses Support of the data processing technical assistants when running the operational environment to generate Herschel standard products Essential Requirements The service to be provided requires the following qualification, knowledge and experience A university degree in computer science, physics, electronic engineering, or equivalent At least five years relevant experience in professional software development and software engineering coding Java applications Very good and broad knowledge of Java Good knowledge of GUI development Unix based systems Linux Configuration control system CVS Object Oriented design methods Experience interacting with instrument and calibration scientists and the scientific community would be an advantage. The selected contractor must operate in a team environment and occasionally travel. Good interpersonal and communication skills are an advantage. The contractor should be used to working independently in a focussed way against tight deadlines. The contractor should be comfortable in an international working environment Desirable Skills The following knowledge and expirience would be regarded as an asset Knowledge of Jython Experience in HTTP and HTTPS protocols Experience in socket oriented multiclientserver applications Experience within a parallel multiprocessing environment Knowledge of the distributed resource management application API DRMAA Knowledge of bash scripting Knowledge of the FITS file format Experience with numerical and astronomical data reduction systems and algorithms Experience writing user documentation Knowledge of Windows XP and 7 and Macintosh based systems Eagerness to embrace new concepts and methods Knowledge of data structures Knowledge of design patterns Knowledge of XML and DocBook Experience with Virtual Observatory concepts and software Experience in scientificastronomical data reduction systems Additional Information Fluency in English is mandatory The candidate must have a valid Spanish work and residence permit or be an EU Citizen Planned start date is as soon as possible Interviews are scheduled to take place at ESAC on 9 September 2013 To guarantee that your application is processed, please apply via our website httpwww.scisys.dewhereweworkspacecareersspacejobs.html
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