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Technology Development Engineering Support to the Future Missions

2016-09-02 13:05:21| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Aurora is an established supplier of skilled manpower to ESA and in particular at ESTEC and ESAC. Aurora has the opportunity to expand our support to ESA. Overview The work will be performed onsite at ESTEC within the Directorate of the Science SCI. The service is expected to deliver support to the Future Mission Preparation Office, which is responsible for the identification of technology requirements and the planning, coordination and management of the associated Technology Development Activities TDAs that are conducted by the European space industry. The candidate missions are regularly renewed, typically every 1 or 2 years through an open call for missions for the Cosmic Vision Programme and discussions with the Member States. The missions can address a large spectrum of technical competences. Examples are astrophysics observations in all wavelengths from GammaX rays to the far infrared, solar observatories, landers and mobile rovers for planetary or small body exploration, specific measurement techniques such as laser interferometry, aperture synthesis and spectroscopy, novel power systems using radioisotope nuclear decay, cryogenic coolers and cryostats, spacecraft subsystem specific developments such as high thrust propulsion engine and telecommunication elements. Main Service Tasks and Responsibilities will include Monitor the implementation of the activities contained in the Cosmic Visions Technology Plan, solicit the required inputs from the respective Interface Technical Officers, maintain the associated implementation database, produce implementation status reports and presentations Assist in the planning and coordination of the implementation of the activities contained in the Cosmic Visions Technology Plan Contribute to the implementation of TDAs Technology Development Activities Provide support to the development of the technologies required for the future ESA science missions as defined in the Cosmic Visions Programme TDAs documentation preparation Statement of Work, technical requirements and technical followup Provide support to the technology planning and the production of Technology Development Plans for future missions, themes and systems Assist in the coordination of technology developments and planning across ESA and with external parties Support future mission assessment and advanced studies in areas related to advanced technologies Participate in technical reviews and working groups. Specific qualification requirements Applicants should have a postgraduate Masters or PhD degree in Engineering or Physics. The nature of the support to be provided requires that the candidate possess a wide spectrum knowledge in engineering physics, with a natural inclination for understanding new technologies. The candidate should have several years of experience in the development of advanced technologies, preferably for space applications. Management experience with industrial contract exposure is an important asset. Knowledge of advanced optics, novel sensors and materials, power generation, thermal protection and cryogenics is required. The candidate will be expected to technically follow technology development contracts. The planning of the implementation of technology developments and the reporting on ongoing activities will form an important aspect. The candidate should have the demonstrated interest and ability of taking the initiative to get the job done when necessary. Effective communication skills are essential to the post in order to interface with colleagues within ESA and with external partners, in particular European industrial contractors. Experience working in the international and multicultural environment of ESA and knowledge of its working processes and procedures is considered an asset. Legal and Security Requirements All applicants must be legally allowed to work in The Netherlands Applicants are required to provide a copy of their passport and degree certificate. Aurora will validate the Degree with the issuing University and provide evidence to ESA. Prior to issuing a letter of employment the applicant shall provide to Aurora a recent official document declaring that they are of good conduct from the country where currently resident. Location The work will be performed at the European Space Technology and Research Centre ESTEC at Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Contract The selected candidate will receive good remuneration. Will be registered for both social security and tax in the Netherlands. The standard working hours are 40 per week. There are 12 public holidays and an additional 30 annual days holiday. Training to improve efficiency and provide strength for future career are of course included. Aurora assist with relocation both with support and financially. Aurora contributes to a company pension scheme. To be considered for this Position Provide prior to 23 September 2016 a summary of why you are a good candidate for the position together with a complete and detailed Recruitment Form or CV with Motivation Letter to Mr. Davide Starnone, at email davide.starnoneaurora.nl quoting reference SCI128. Aurora will agree conditional employment terms and conditions with candidates before presenting them to ESA by 30 September 2016, 13.00 hours.

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Mission Planning System Software Engineering Consultancy Support

2016-08-24 16:04:10| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Since 1979, Italian ACS has been a Software System Integrator. As a Payload Data Ground Segment specialist, ACS develops componentssubsystemsground stations for satellite data acquisition, processing and dissemination. The company is active in geospatial multisource applications development for planning and management of environmental risks infrastructures and realtime handling of large data streams. ACS offer to their customers the complete range of services from the collection of user requirements to operational activities support. Our German subsidiary ACSD provides consultancy service at EUMETSAT Darmstadt. Selected candidate will sign permanent full time contract and work at EUM premises. Besides an opportunity to work in international environment, ACS can offer competitive salary, attractive benefits package tailored to specific needs, training and career growth within ACS group, support for relocation to Darmstadt. For our activities in Germany, we are looking for a person to provide Mission Planning System Software Engineering Consultancy Support TASKS Maintenance and Evolution Activities Reengineering activities analysis of the porting of some subsystems to stateoftheart technologies, tradeoff studies of various technologies, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Evolutions and changes generation andor analysis of userdriven and maintenancedriven software requirements, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Preventive and corrective maintenance including the investigation and correction or following the corrections implemented by external contractors of anomalies in the software facilities and verification testing of the fixes. Maintenance test procedures generation and updates of maintenance test procedures at software facility level and at system level. Support and development of the verification infrastructure development andor procurement of scripts tools to perform installation checks, nonregression, functional and performance testing. Analysis and implementation of mechanisms or tools allowing the automatic or semiautomatic verification testing of the application software. Coordination of the production of new software releases or patches, delivery acceptance and installation onsite. This activity includes the technical coordination of the production by an external contractor of new releases or patches of the application software, liaison with the EUMETSAT operational users, participation in technical reviews, participation in factory at contractor premises acceptance testing campaigns and coordination of the installation of the releases or patches onsite at EUMETSAT. Execution and coordination of software verification and nonregression testing campaigns. This activity includes preparation of test data, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports, analysis of results and troubleshooting of problems. Software support software support to the endusers of the application software. Ensure operations continuity by provision of oncall services and software support to operations. Documentation generation and updates of technical documents. Technical point of contact for maintenance contractors acting as point of contact with the contractor for technical discussions, review of technical documentation from the contractor, organizing periodical technical meetings with the contractor. Support to new Missions PhaseB activities Requirements engineering System Architectural design Support to new Missions PhaseCD activities Mission Planning System implementation IVV and Acceptance Technical coordination of the parallel activities involving the EUMETSAT Mission Planning Systems for LEO missions MANDATORY University degree in a relevant engineering discipline Able to work effectively in English 1. Domain Skills Experience minimum 5 years in the definition of software requirements, architectural design, implementation and maintenance of Mission Planning Systems in the context of Low Earth Orbit LEO space missions. 2. Software Development, Verification Maintenance Skills Experience minimum 5 years in the full cycle of development and maintenance of application software, preferably for Mission Planning Systems, following formal software engineering processes. This includes user and system requirement analysis, software requirement engineering, software design, implementation, corrective and evolutive maintenance activities. Experience minimum 3 years in IVV integration, verification and validation activities, preferably for Mission Planning Systems, following formal engineering processes. This includes requirement verification, system and subsystem integration, generation of test plan and test procedures, nonregression testing, generation of test data, generation of test tools, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports and anomaly tracking. 3. Software Engineering Skills Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software applications using C and Java programming languages for UNIXLinux operating systems. Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software applications using interfaces to relational database management systems RDBMS and experience with data model design for RDBMS. Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software applications using JBoss Drools as business rule management system. EU national or valid work permit for Germany CV in Europass format ADVANTAGE 4. Domain Skills Experience in integration of Mission Planning Systems with Mission Control Systems based on MICONYS software suite from ESAESOC. Experience in integration of Mission Planning Systems with Flight Dynamics Systems. Experience in support to flight control operations teams for Mission Planning Systems. 5. System Maintenance Skills Experience in being the technical point of contact for contractors working at offsite premises and responsible for application software evolution and maintenance. 6. Software Technology Skills Experience in the usage of software CASE design tools e.g. Enterprise Architect andor MagicDraw. Experience in using Unified Modelling Language UML for software design. Experience in developing software applications interfacing with Oracle RDBMS. Experience with Oracle RDBMS administration. Experience with ILOG Views visualization library. XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSLT and XPath. Experience in designing, developing and maintaining software client applications using Eclipse as HMI framework Rich Client Platform. Experience in designing and developing component based software applications using formal techniques e.g. OSGi. Experience using tools for the automation of software testing.

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Mission Planning System Software Engineering Support

2016-08-23 20:03:55| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

With 1.800 employees worldwide, the CS Group is a leading IT company in France and in Germany, and a prime contractor in designing, integrating and operating mission critical systems. It has now been over 30 years that comprehensive CS solutions for space systems and applications, both on the ground and in space, have been part and parcel of this odyssey. Our German activities grow at fast pace and to face our costumers high level expectations and needs, we are looking for talented profiles having relevant experience in Space systems. The key person will work in the TSS Department supporting the Mission Control Applications and Tools Team, which is part of the GSI Division. The Mission Control Applications MCA and Tools Team is responsible for the maintenance and development of the following Mission Control Applications Spacecraft Monitoring Control, Local Applications Monitoring Control, Onboard software management, Flight Dynamics System, Mission Planning System, OpsPrep Tools, Data analysis and reporting tools, Spacecraft Simulator. The Mission Control Applications and Tools Team performs the following activities Software engineering and software maintenance of multimission and missionspecific Mission Control Applications and Tools for GEO and LEO missions. Software engineering for the reuse of Mission Control Applications and Tools with the separation between generic kernel and missionspecific extensions. Integration and verification at application and system level. User and software support to flight control teams. Support to the EUMETSAT Programme Preparation and Development PRD Department for the PhaseBCD of new missions in the domain of Mission Control Applications. The key person will provide hisher prime support to the Mission Control Applications and Tools Team and heshe will support the evolution and maintenance of the EUMETSAT Mission Planning Systems for LEO missions. the requirements specification, design, implementation, integration and verification of Mission Planning Systems for new EUMETSAT LEO Programmes PhaseBCD, including the setting up of the related maintenance arrangements and processes. the technical coordination in the team of the different parallel activities involving the EUMETSAT Mission Planning Systems for LEO missions. The tasks of the key person will typically include Maintenance and Evolution Activities Reengineering activities analysis of the porting of some subsystems to stateoftheart technologies, tradeoff studies of various technologies, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Evolutions and changes generation andor analysis of userdriven and maintenance driven software requirements, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Preventive and corrective maintenance including the investigation and correction or following the corrections implemented by external contractors of anomalies in the software facilities and verification testing of the fixes. Maintenance test procedures generation and updates of maintenance test procedures at software facility level and at system level. Support and development of the verification infrastructure development andor procurement of scripts tools to perform installation checks, nonregression, functional and performance testing. Analysis and implementation of mechanisms or tools allowing the automatic or semiautomatic verification testing of the application software. Coordination of the production of new software releases or patches, delivery acceptance and installation onsite. This activity includes the technical coordination of the production by an external contractor of new releases or patches of the application software, liaison with the EUMETSAT operational users, participation in technical reviews, participation in factory at contractor premises acceptance testing campaigns and coordination of the installation of the releases or patches onsite at EUMETSAT. Execution and coordination of software verification and nonregression testing campaigns. This activity includes preparation of test data, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports, analysis of results and troubleshooting of problems. Software support software support to the endusers of the application software. Ensure operations continuity by provision of oncall services and software support to operations. Documentation generation and updates of technical documents. Technical point of contact for maintenance contractors acting as point of contact with the contractor for technical discussions, review of technical documentation from the contractor, organizing periodical technical meetings with the contractor. Support to new Missions PhaseB activities Requirements engineering Participation in the functional analysis and decomposition of the Ground Segment requirements in the domain of Mission Planning System. Support the definition of Ground Segment requirements in the area of the Mission Planning System. Participation in workshops and review meetings. Interfacing with Operations to consolidate the operational concept in the Mission Planning System requirements. Support the identification of the verification method and initial test cases for the Mission Planning System requirements. Incorporate the reuse of the EUMETSAT Mission Planning System kernel products in the Ground Segment requirements. Interfacing with the Mission Planning System kernel product experts in the MCA Team to coordinate their contributions to the requirements definition. System Architectural design Support the generation of the architectural system level design of the Mission Planning System as part of the Ground Segment. Support the production of design models using Systems Engineering and CASE tools. Support the definition and documentation of all interfaces IRDsICDs between the elements of the Mission Planning System and other Ground Segment or external elements. Incorporate the reuse of the EUMETSAT Mission Planning System kernel products in the Ground Segment design. Support to new Missions PhaseCD activities Support to Mission Planning System implementation Support to the requirement and design engineering activities as part of the applications development. Participation and contribution in requirements, design and implementation reviews both internal and with external contractors. Follow the software development by external contractors of the Mission Planning System. Support to IVV and Acceptance Participation in verification readiness reviews and verification testing campaigns both internal and with external contractors. Technical coordination of the parallel activities involving the EUMETSAT Mission Planning Systems for LEO missions Support to the technical coordination of all the activities in the team where the EUMETSAT LEO Mission Planning Systems are involved. These activities comprise at the moment the maintenance and evolution for missions under routine operations, reengineering activities and the reuse of the EUMETSAT Mission Planning System in new Programmes. PROFILE In addition to having a University degree in a relevant engineering discipline, the key person shall demonstrate significant knowledge and experience in the area of specification, design, implementation, verification and maintenance of Mission Planning Systems. The key person shall have skills and experience in the following mandatory areas 1. Domain Skills Experience minimum 5 years in the definition of software requirements, architectural design, implementation and maintenance of Mission Planning Systems in the context of Low Earth Orbit LEO space missions. 2. Software Development, Verification Maintenance Skills Experience minimum 5 years in the full cycle of development and maintenance of application software, preferably for Mission Planning Systems, following formal software engineering processes. This includes user and system requirement analysis, software requirement engineering, software design, implementation, corrective and evolutive maintenance activities. Experience minimum 3 years in IVV integration, verification and validation activities, preferably for Mission Planning Systems, following formal engineering processes. This includes requirement verification, system and subsystem integration, generation of test plan and test procedures, nonregression testing, generation of test data, generation of test tools, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports and anomaly tracking. 3. Software Engineering Skills Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software applications using C and Java programming languages for UNIXLinux operating systems. Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software applications using interfaces to relational database management systems RDBMS and experience with data model design for RDBMS. Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software applications using JBoss Drools as business rule management system. It would be a distinct advantage for the key person to have knowledge andor experience with some of the following 4. Domain Skills Experience in integration of Mission Planning Systems with Mission Control Systems based on MICONYS software suite from ESAESOC. Experience in integration of Mission Planning Systems with Flight Dynamics Systems. Experience in support to flight control operations teams for Mission Planning Systems. 5. System Maintenance Skills Experience in being the technical point of contact for contractors working at offsite premises and responsible for application software evolution and maintenance. 6. Software Technology Skills Experience in the usage of software CASE design tools e.g. Enterprise Architect andor MagicDraw. Experience in using Unified Modelling Language UML for software design. Experience in developing software applications interfacing with Oracle RDBMS. Experience with Oracle RDBMS administration. Experience with ILOG Views visualization library. XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSLT and XPath. Experience in designing, developing and maintaining software client applications using Eclipse as HMI framework Rich Client Platform. Experience in designing and developing component based software applications using formal techniques e.g. OSGi. Experience using tools for the automation of software testing. The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore the Engineer must be able to work effectively in this language and have knowledge of the other. How to apply Please consider the following points before applying Please submit your complete application documents in English. An attached cover letter should mention your availability and salary expectations. Interested applicants should submit their CV to pierre.lenahediccssytems.de and copy to francoisxavier.laffontcs.fr with the job title. Due to new work permit restrictions for this position, please apply only if you are citizen of a European Union state or if you hold all appropriate documentation and permits to work in Europe. Closing date 4th October 2016 Starting Date 1st January 2017 Interviews week 4445 2016

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Mission Planning System Software Engineering Consultancy Support

2016-08-22 18:04:06| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

POSITION ID OT2879 ROLE FUNCTION Mission Planning System Software Engineering Consultancy Support in Darmstadt Germany GENERAL CONDITIONS START January 2017 LOCATION Darmstadt TYPE OF BUSINESS Aerospace CONTRACT fulltime employment WORKING LANGUAGE English, French is considered an advantage DEADLINE 04. Oktober 2016 MUSTHAVE SKILLS MANDATORY In addition to having a university degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline, the consultant shall have at least 5 years experience gained through the specification, procurement and operation of space mission planning systems. More precisely, the following experience is required At least 5 years practical experience of LEO mission planning system specification, development, procurement and routine operations At least 3 years experience of AIV related activities test procedure generation, requirements verification and validation, etc, preferably in the field of space mission planning systems At least 3 years experience in the production and maintenance of mission planning operational rules using a Javalike Business Rules Management System e.g. JBoss Drools or ILOG Rules At least 2 years of working with files in XML format At least 2 years experience with the LinuxUnix operating system user command level Experience with Software Version Control Systems e.g. CVS, SVN or Git and Software Configuration Management Systems e.g. Serena Dimensions. NICETOHAVE SKILLS CONSIDERED AS AN ADVANTAGE The following experience would be advantageous At least 2 years working with relational databases and sql, preferably involving Oracle database administration Knowledge of ECSS and CCSDS standards At least 1 year of software development in C, with knowledge of Oracle database access using ProC advantageous Knowledge of the principles of satellite monitoring and control Tasks The Consultant shall mainly perform tasks related to the development and procurement of the EPSSG Mission Planning System MPS. These tasks typically include Supporting the EPSSG ground segment team in the development and procurement of the MPS and any related tools Analysing and reviewing relevant EPSSG documentation, preparing technical notes and attending technical meetings Participating in reviews for the MPS and, when necessary, interfacing facilities and associated tools, throughout the procurement lifecycle Participating in MPS factory or onsite acceptance testing and related activities at facility and system level. If necessary, creating and executing test procedures to support this activity Analysing reporting on test results, in particular with respect to requirement verification and validation Proposing changes to the MPS or related tools for instance to modify some aspect of the software functionality, and contributing to the process for implementing such changes change justification, baseline requirements update, issuing the change request, liaison with external contractors, etc Raising, monitoring and steering the lifecycle of MPS related anomaly reports ARs and nonconformance reports NCRs. Supplying context and analysis to support the investigation of anomalies Participating in the installation of the MPS and related tools at EUMETSAT. Verifying the installation Defining the MPS operational implementation rules, database structures, etc and maintaining a detailed understanding of the space and ground segment operational needs that are met through mission planning Producing and maintaining MPS related documentation such as the Operational Implementation document and the MPS User Operations Guide Interacting with internal users, suppliers and partner organisations Providing procurement support to other future missions, notably JasonCS, if required

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Ground Segment System Engineering Support

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