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Flight Dynamics System Software Engineer 1621045
2016-03-09 15:07:16| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Solenix is specialized in the provision of highquality software engineering, technical consulting and operations services in the aerospace domain. This vacancy note concerns an onsite consulting position at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany. Flight Dynamics System Software Engineer 1621045 Job Description You will work as Flight Dynamics System Software Engineer as a member of the Mission Control Applications and Tools Team. 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 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. Your role will be to provide prime support to the Mission Control Applications and Tools Team and this will include the evolution and maintenance of the EUMETSAT Flight Dynamics Systems for LEO missions the requirements specification, design, implementation, integration and verification of Flight Dynamics 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 Flight Dynamics Systems for LEO missions. Your tasks will typically include Maintenance and Evolution Activities Support to new Missions PhaseB activities such as Requirements engineering and System Architectural design Support to new Missions PhaseCD activities including Support to Flight Dynamics System implementation and Support to IV V and Acceptance Technical coordination of the parallel activities involving the EUMETSAT Flight Dynamics Systems for LEO missions Required Skills and Experience Knowledge of the analytical principles for orbit determination and control of LEO spacecraft. Experience minimum 5 years in the definition of software requirements, architectural design, implementation and maintenance of Satellite Flight Dynamics Experience minimum 5 years in the full cycle of development and maintenance of application software, preferably for Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems, following Experience minimum 3 years in IV V integration, verification and validation activities for Flight Dynamics Systems following formal engineering processes. This Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software components and applications using Object Oriented 00 approach including design patterns. Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software applications using Java and related technologies. Desirable Skills and Experience Experience with software development and maintenance of Tools using the Orekit space dynamics library. Experience in integration of Flight Dynamics Systems with Mission Control Systems based on MICONYS software suite from ESAIESOC. Experience in integration of Flight Dynamics Systems with Mission Planning Systems. Experience with support to operations for Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems. Experience in being the technical point of contact for contractors working at offsite premises and responsible for application software evolution and maintenance. IBM DOORS requirement management Tool. Experience in the usage of software CASE design tools e.g. Enterprise Architect andor MagicDraw. Experience in developing software applications using interfaces to relational database management systems RDBMS and experience with data model design for RDBMS. Unified Modelling Language UML for software design. Linux Operating System. XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSLT andXPath. 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. Work Location Darmstadt, Germany Dates Application Deadline 04 April 2016 Start of Work May 2016 Important Notes Before applying to this position, please read the page Notes to Applicants on the Solenix website under Career. Applicants must be EU citizens or have a valid work and residence permit in Germany. Security, identity and reference checks on the candidates are part of the recruitment process. Job Application Please send your applications electronically to careersolenix.ch before the application deadline 04 April 2016 Learn more about us in Facebook
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Flight Dynamics System Software Engineer mf
2016-03-09 10:07:21| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
The tasks of the key person will typically include 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 Flight Dynamics Systems for LEO Missions. the requirements specification, design, implementation, integration and verification of Flight Dynamics 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 Flight Dynamics Systems for LEO missions. The tasks of the key person will typically include Maintenance and Evolution Activities o 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. o 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. o 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. o Maintenance test procedures generation and updates of maintenance test procedures at software facility level and at system level. o Support and development of the verification infrastructure development andor procurement of scripts I 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. o Coordination of the production of new software releases or patches, deliverv 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. o 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. o Software support software support to the endusers of the application software. o Ensure operations continuity by provision of oncall services and software support to operations. o Documentation generation and updates of technical documents. o 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 o Participation in the functional analysis and decomposition of the Ground Segment requirements in the domain of Flight Dynamics System. o Support the definition of Ground Segment requirements in the area of the Flight Dynamics System. Participation in workshops and review meetings. Interfacing with Operations to consolidate the operational concept in the Flight Dynamics System requirements. o Support the identification of the verification method and initial test cases for the Flight Dynamics System requirements. o Incorporate the reuse of the EUMETSA T Flight Dynamics System kernel products in the Ground Segment requirements. o Interfacing with the Flight Dynamics System kernel product experts in the MCA Team to coordinate their contributions to the requirements definition. System Architectural design o Support the generation of the architectural system level design of the Flight Dynamics System as part of the Ground Segment. o Support the production of design models using Systems Engineering and CASE tools. o Support the definition and documentation of all interfaces IRDsICDs between the elements of the Flight Dynamics System and other Ground Segment or external elements. o Incorporate the reuse of the EUMETSAT Flight Dynamics System kernel products in the Ground Segment design. Support to new Missions PhaseCD activities Support to Flight Dynamics System implementation o Support to the requirement and design engineering activities as part of the applications development. o Participation and contribution in requirements, design and implementation reviews both internal and with external contractors. o Follow the software development by external contractors of the Flight Dynamics System. Support to IV V and Acceptance o Participation in verification readiness reviews and verification testing campaigns both internal and with external contractors. Technical coordination of the parallel activities involving the EUMETSAT Flight Dynamics Systems for LEO missions o Support to the technical coordination of all the activities in the team where the EUMETSAT LEO Flight Dynamics 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 Flight Dynamics System in new Programmes. Requirements 1. Domain Skills o Knowledge of the analytical principles for orbit determination and control of LEO spacecraft. o Experience in the definition of software requirements, architectural design, implementation and maintenance of Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems in the context of LEO missions based on the ESAIESOC NAPEOS Navigation Package for Earth Observation Satellite. 2. Software Development, Verification Maintenance Skills o Experience in the full cycle of development and maintenance of application software, preferably for Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems, following formal software engineering processes. This includes user and system requirement analysis, software requirement engineering, software design, implementation, corrective and evolutive maintenance activities. o Experience in IV V integration, verification and validation activities for Flight Dynamics 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 o Experience in designing and developing software components and applications using Object Oriented 00 approach including design patterns. o Experience in designing and developing software applications using Java and related technologies. It would be a distinct advantage for the key person to have knowledge andor experience with some of the following 4. Domain Skills o Experience with software development and maintenance of Tools using the Orekit space dynamics library. o Experience in integration of Flight Dynamics Systems with Mission Control Systems based on MICONYS software suite from ESAIESOC. o Experience in integration of Flight Dynamics Systems with Mission Planning Systems. o Experience with support to operations for Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems. 5. System Maintenance Skills o 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 o IBM DOORS requirement management Tool. o Experience in the usage of software CASE design tools e.g. Enterprise Architect andor MagicDraw. o Experience in developing software applications using interfaces to relational database management systems RDBMS and experience with data model design for RDBMS. o Unified Modelling Language UML for software design. o Linux Operating System. o XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSLT andXPath. o Experience in designing, developing and maintaining software client applications using Eclipse as HMI framework Rich Client Platform. o Experience in designing and developing component based software applications using formal techniques e.g. OSGi. o 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 key person must be able to work effectively in this language. Academic and work related requirements A University degree in engineering, physics, or software domains is required. Perfect command of English, verbal and written. Knowledge of French would be an asset. Location of work EUMETSAT in DarmstadtGermany. Benefits A permanent employment contract. Competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package. Career path. Security In line with Asylum Immigration Legislation, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the EU. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process. Furthermore, in view of the nature of the work the company is in, all potential employees will undergo stringent reference and identity checks. You are looking for a challenging position in a very interesting, international environment? Then send your application preferably online to andree.scherschellsespace.com not later than 1st April 2016.
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Flight Dynamics Engineer
2016-01-19 16:06:36| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus Group formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military. The new division is Europes number one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. It employs some 40,000 employees generating revenues of approximately 14 billion per year. A vacancy for a Flight Dynamics Engineer has arisen within Airbus Defence Space in Hawthorn. You will perform flight dynamics activities as directed by the Flight Dynamics Manager for the constellation of spacecraft controlled by Airbus Defence and Space. The successful candidate will be subject to UK National Security Clearance in order to undertake related work in accordance with business needs. Your main tasks and responsibilities will include Orbit determination, including Analysis of required ranging campaigns, Scheduling of ranging activities, Analysis of orbit determination performance, Formulation of recommendation for orbit determination improvement. Manoeuvre planning, including Planning of manoeuvres and management of manoeuvre schedule taking into account operational constraints, Generation of manoeuvre products, Manoeuvre assessment including propellant accounting and thruster performance, Generation of drift orbit entry and station acquisition manoeuvres with associated predictions products for spacecraft relocation, Generation of graveyard manoeuvres with associated predictions products for retirement of inservice spacecraft that have reached end of life. Plan platform specific flight dynamics operations. Generation of routine onstation predictions. Propellant Estimation. Space situational awareness activities Conjunction analysis, Interference analysis, Space weather. Provide oncall support to Spacecraft Operations for SKYNET 5 ESR recovery and SCU reset. Oncall support is provided on a roster basis, only one member of the Flight Dynamics Team will be oncall at any time. Liaise with external agencies with regard to collocation of spacecraft including coordination of manoeuvres, generation of separation predications, and data exchange. Maintain operational documentation. Dissemination of ephemeris data. Production of master daily schedule and associated task sheets. Production of weekly schedule. Routine inspection of spacecraft status and log books. Produce reports required by the Space Directorate and customer including Weekly spacecraft report, Quarterly spacecraft report SKYNET 4 only, Equinox report SKYNET 4 only, Flight dynamics inputs for SKYNET 5 annual report. The Flight Dynamics Engineer may also be asked to perform the following functions as and when the opportunity arises Participate on the Launch and Early Orbit Phase LEOP of new Paradigm spacecraft. Flight Dynamics software development. We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience Degree or higher in Physics, Maths or related subject with working background in the Space Industry including Satellite Flight Dynamics or AOCS. Previous experience of SKYNET 4 or E3000 Flight Dynamics would be desirable. Previous LEOP experience would be appreciated. Experience of Matlab and Simulink, Mathematical modelling. Good computer programming skills, Software development in C or C. Good verbal and written communication skills. Excellent analytical skills. Good presentation skills. Please apply for this vacancy on line at our careers site www.jobs.airbusgroup.com with your CV attached. To apply click here
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Flight Dynamics Engineer
2015-12-23 16:03:30| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus Group formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military. The new division is Europes number one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. It employs some 40,000 employees generating revenues of approximately 14 billion per year. A vacancy for a Flight Dynamics Engineer has arisen within Airbus Defence Space in Hawthorn. You will perform flight dynamics activities as directed by the Flight Dynamics Manager for the constellation of spacecraft controlled by Airbus Defence and Space. The successful candidate will be subject to UK National Security Clearance in order to undertake related work in accordance with business needs. Your main tasks and responsibilities will include Orbit determination, including Analysis of required ranging campaigns, Scheduling of ranging activities, Analysis of orbit determination performance, Formulation of recommendation for orbit determination improvement. Manoeuvre planning, including Planning of manoeuvres and management of manoeuvre schedule taking into account operational constraints, Generation of manoeuvre products, Manoeuvre assessment including propellant accounting and thruster performance, Generation of drift orbit entry and station acquisition manoeuvres with associated predictions products for spacecraft relocation, Generation of graveyard manoeuvres with associated predictions products for retirement of inservice spacecraft that have reached end of life. Plan platform specific flight dynamics operations. Generation of routine onstation predictions. Propellant Estimation. Space situational awareness activities Conjunction analysis, Interference analysis, Space weather. Provide oncall support to Spacecraft Operations for SKYNET 5 ESR recovery and SCU reset. Oncall support is provided on a roster basis, only one member of the Flight Dynamics Team will be oncall at any time. Liaise with external agencies with regard to collocation of spacecraft including coordination of manoeuvres, generation of separation predications, and data exchange. Maintain operational documentation. Dissemination of ephemeris data. Production of master daily schedule and associated task sheets. Production of weekly schedule. Routine inspection of spacecraft status and log books. Produce reports required by the Space Directorate and customer including Weekly spacecraft report, Quarterly spacecraft report SKYNET 4 only, Equinox report SKYNET 4 only, Flight dynamics inputs for SKYNET 5 annual report. The Flight Dynamics Engineer may also be asked to perform the following functions as and when the opportunity arises Participate on the Launch and Early Orbit Phase LEOP of new Paradigm spacecraft. Flight Dynamics software development. We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience Degree or higher in Physics, Maths or related subject with working background in the Space Industry including Satellite Flight Dynamics or AOCS. Previous experience of SKYNET 4 or E3000 Flight Dynamics would be desirable. Previous LEOP experience would be appreciated. Experience of Matlab and Simulink, Mathematical modelling. Good computer programming skills, Software development in C or C. Good verbal and written communication skills. Excellent analytical skills. Good presentation skills. Please apply for this vacancy on line at our careers site www.jobs.airbusgroup.com with your CV attached. To apply click here
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Mission Analysis Flight Dynamics Studies Engineer mf
2015-12-17 11:05:20| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus Group formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military. The new division is Europes number one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. It employs some 40,000 employees generating revenues of approximately 14 billion per year. A vacancy for a Mission Analysis Flight Dynamics Studies Engineer mf has arisen within Airbus Defence Space in Toulouse. The successful applicant will join the AOCSGNC Flight Dynamics Development department. As the study engineer, you will be involved in Mission Analysis and Flight Dynamics studies for satellite and space projects in the development phase, for various applicative domains like Earth Observation e.g. Spot 67 and Perusat programmes, etc., Geostationary satellites or constellations e.g. Measat 3B, DTV15, Eutelsat 172B, etc.. You will conduct Mission Analysis and Flight Dynamic activities for programmes in the development phase and will therefore be in charge of the following activities Orbit dynamic analysis analysing and selecting orbits according to mission needs, predicting trajectories, strategizing injections and transfers and trading off and optimising manoeuvers, Flight dynamics ground software development participating with the continuous improvement of inhouse flight dynamic tools, manoeuver computation and orbit restitution modules, defining the customisation and automation framework for Graphical User Interfaces and interfacing with satellite control centre operations, As the Flight Dynamics specialist, participating with the Launch and Early Operation phases and providing functional expertise support for satellite endoflife reorbit operations. This role will involve some travel for business twice a year in Europe and as such you must be able to travel accordingly. We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience Educated to a Masters degree level or equivalent, 1st experience in flight dynamics andor AOCS andor GNC andor Flight Control systems engineering, Good knowledge of Space orbital mechanics, Ideally, knowledge of automatic control, Matlab Simulink and software development, Team spirit, Sense of commitment, Well organised, A negotiation level of French and English is expected. Please apply online. Airbus Group is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. Airbus Group Recruitment Centre To apply click here
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