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ALTIUS Mission Performance Engineer

2017-10-12 14:12:07| 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 in the domain of Earth Observation. Happiness of our employees has proven key to obtaining excellent results and a client who also regards us highly for excellent service. Overview The ALTIUS mission aims at the development of an Earth limb soundermission based on a small satellite. Its main objective is the monitoring ofthe distribution and evolution of stratospheric ozone at high verticalresolution in support of long term monitoring and operational services.Measurements of concentration profiles of other atmospheric species aswell as of aerosol extinction vertical profiles are also envisaged in theframe of monitoring and scientific activities. The holder of this post will contribute to all aspects project internalactivities, monitoringreview of the relevant industrial activities, interactionwith Mission Users and Scientists relevant to the mission performance of the ALTIUS mission up to Level 2. The post holder will report to the ALTIUS System and EngineeringManager. The principle tasks and responsibilities include Support the definition and maintenance of mission and system level requirements in the following areas Mission observation requirements and mission data productsrequirements ALTIUS EndtoEnd simulator and Ground Processor Prototype GPP Internal and External characterisation and calibration of the instrument Develop and maintain mission performance mathematical models andtools to support the assessment of the relevant industrial developmentactivities and of the compliance of the system design to the mission performance requirements Maintain mission level performance and error budgets, in coordinationwith the other ALTIUS project team members. Analyse the compliance ofthe mission performance budgets with the endtoend mission performance requirements and propose corrective actions in case of deviation Monitor and critically analyse the mission level performance requirement allocation, their flow down to the relevant contributors, the associated margins, their evolution and their verification Monitor and review the definition and implementation of the ALTIUS characterisation, calibration and validation plans and follow up the specification, procurement and verificationvalidation of the relevant equipment and activities Support the payload team for aspects relevant to instrument performance requirements flowdown and instrument performance verification, including relevant models and tools Follow up the End to End Simulator and GPP specification, procurement, verificationvalidation and acceptance activities Acquire working knowledge of the tools for test data generation purposes and internal mission level verification activities Support the preparation, execution and analysis of the relevant inflight calval operations during the commissioning phase Support Payload Data Ground Segment PDGS Requirement definition and reviews for what concern the Ground processor aspects Support crossverification activities of the PDGS operational ground processor against the Ground Processor Prototype Support the establishment, maintenance and running of the ALTIUS Mission Advisory Group MAG for what concerns mission instrument performance aspects, including endtoend mission performance verification and compliance status Interact with the ALTIUS Mission Users Community and Scientific Community for what concerns Mission definition, Products definition and mission instrument performance aspects. Support the System and Engineering Manager and the other ALTIUS project team members in all aspects related to mission performance, as necessary for the effective execution of the ALTIUS project. The Mission Performance Engineer will cooperate closely with theALTIUS payload team in the execution of the relevant tasks. Furthermore shehe will be supported by and is expected to closely cooperate with specialist engineers from the ALTIUS team, from the Earth Observation Projects Department and from the Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality DTEC as appropriate. Extra information on ALTIUS can be found here. Specific qualification requirements Applicants for this post should have a university degree at least Masters degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant physical science or engineering subject. Demonstrated background and experience in systems for Earth Atmospheric Composition monitoring and science studies in a space project environment. Knowledge of aerosols and ozone observational data. Experience working with atmospheric composition in EarthSystem models and data assimilation. Background and experience on the specific issues relevant to bright limb, solar and stellar occultation observing systems are assets. The candidate must possess solid analytical skills and the command of the physics and techniques of Earth limb observation systems bright limb, solarstellar occultation, together with the capability to critically analyse the work performed by industry in the relevant areas, identify problems and proposeinstigate corrective actions. The candidate shall demonstrate to be proficient with programming tools and languages relevant to the implementation and maintenance of the system performance models e.g. MATLAB. Proficient in the English Language Spoken and Written. 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 6November 2017 a summary of why you are a good candidate for the position together with a complete and detailedCandidate Proposal Formor CV and Motivation Letter toMr. Davide Starnone, at emaildavide.starnoneaurora.nlquoting reference EOP84. Aurora will agree conditional employment terms and conditions with candidates before presenting them to ESA by 9 November 2017, 13.00 hours.

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Ingnieur technique mission satellite de recherchesauvetage HF

2017-10-10 17:11:14| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

CS est un acteur majeur de la conception, de lintgration et de lexploitation de systmes critiques. Au sein de la Business Unit Espace, le dpartement FMO Flight Mission Operations se focalise sur les thmatiques de centres de contrle satellite, mcanique spatiale, programmation mission et navigation. Nous recherchons un Ingnieur technique mission satellite de recherchesauvetage HF. Vous viendrez renforcer une quipe existante assurant, pour le compte de notre donneur dordre, le support dingnierie dune mission europenne daide la recherche et au sauvetage. Sous la responsabilit dun Chef de projet, vous participerez quelquesunes des activits suivantes Suivi des volutions du segment sol et coordination des tests associs, Ralisation des tests techniques et support au dveloppement des outils dexpertise et de posttraitement, Prparation aux runions de travail, Support technique li aux performances du Service, Support aux responsables techniques sur la comprhension globale de larchitecture du Service, Support Expertise Transverse. Ingnieur de formation ou quivalent universitaire avec une spcialisation en radiofrquences, communication par satellite ou traitement du signal, vous bnficiez dau moins deux ans dexprience. Le contexte de travail est SAR Search And RescueGALILEO. De bonnes connaissances du domaine Spatial et de larchitecture de Systmes spatiaux stations sols, antennes, centre de missions sont demandes. Une exprience dans le contexte SAR est un plus. Au niveau technique, vous maitrisez Les techniques radiofrquences, Les techniques de localisation, La communication par satellite et le traitement du signal, Llaboration de bilan de liaison. Vous avez ainsi un attrait pour les activits pratique calibration, mtrologie Au niveau informatique, vous utilisez Matlab, CC et si possible Visual Basic, Scilab. La mission se droulant dans un contexte europen, vous savez communiquer en anglais, tant loral qu lcrit. Rigoureux et organis, vous avez un esprit danalyse et de synthse dvelopp, ainsi quune bonne capacit de rdaction, de prsentation et de reporting. Postuler ICI

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Generic Mission Control Applications Engineer

2017-10-06 15:12:17| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

We are looking to further enhance our team by adding a Generic Mission Control Applications Engineer You will be based initially for 1 year at our clients headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Extension of a further 3 years may be possible. In this large European Agency you will find an excellent and modern working environment with challenging tasks and responsibilities. Your Tasks Routine Corrective Maintenance Tasks Within the scope of the corrective and routine maintenance processes andor other maintenance activities, involving monitoring of the systems and taking appropriate actions to ensure or restore nominal performance, the Contractor shall perform the following tasks Support corrective maintenance, involving investigations into approved anomalies AR and enhancements ECP, implementation and testing of corrections Update and maintain a set of standard documents with each software delivery reflecting changes and improvements made if any with particular attention to the verification test plan, architectural design, interface control documents, user guides and any other identifiedaffected relevant document Takeover responsibility for routine delivery verification, in particular for coordinating the production of the release note, verification procedures, verification test report and, in overall, support conduction and execution of verification tests Review, update and maintain Operational baseline documentation covered by the maintenance activity Overall consultancy for the Operational endusers of the maintained applications software Contribute to the preparation and provision of training material covering usage and maintenance aspects of the application software. Engineering Evolution Tasks Within the scope of the continuous evolution of the Competence Area CA services and configuration management tools and maintenance processes, the Contractor shall perform to the following tasks Actively contribute to the 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 Generation andor analysis of userdriven and maintenancedriven software requirements, generation of the corresponding engineering change proposals, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes Development andor Enhancement of the verification infrastructure covering the development andor procurement of scriptstools 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 Actively contribute to the evolution of the Service and Configuration Management tools used at Competence Area CA level to support, planning and tracking of performed teams activities Facilitate as much as possible, the handover of acquired responsibilities to other team members in accordance and as regulated by the Team Leader Actively contribute to the definition, implementations and configuration of the MCAT Continuous Integration and Configuration Management tools and applications Your Profile In addition to having a university degree, or equivalent, in related disciplines, the individual skills of the key personnel shall together satisfy the criteria reported in the sections below. Mandatory Skills System Development Maintenance Skills Experience in software development and maintenance following formal software lifecycle processes resulting in multiple customer deliveries covering production of requirements, design engineering artefacts and implementation reflecting corrective and evolution software maintenance activities as well as new applications definition Experience in verification and validation process and expertise of supporting testing campaigns and related activities test procedure generation, nonregression testing, requirements verification and validation. Software, Technologies and Engineering skills Extensive experience minimum 5 years in designing and developing software components and applications using Object Oriented 00 approach including design patterns Extensive experience minimum 5 years designing and developing software components and applications using C, Java and scripting languages under both Windows and Linux platforms Experience with formal software development environments like Eclipse IDE and Microsoft Visual Studio. Documentation and Configuration Management Skills Experience in using Configuration Management and Anomaly Reporting and Tracking tools. Optional Skills It would be a distinct advantage for the proposed candidate to show experience with some of the following optional skills Domain Skills Expertise in the definition, development and maintenance of Mission Control Functions software applications with focus on development whole life cycle for typical MC applications covering aspects like TMTC, Automation schedule and procedure execution, Operations Preparation, etc. Knowledge and understanding with working experience evidence of space related standards ECSS and CCSDS related to spacetoground interfaces Knowledge of ESA mission control software products, such as MICONYS suite e.g. SCOS2000, NIS, EDDS, GFTS, etc. Spacecraft andor TTC GSt simulation environmentssystems e.g SIMSAT, TEVALIS Experience with MC systems and related user requirementsneeds for GEO missions. System Development Maintenance Skills Software support to users and in general to Flight Control Teams Work experience in a 247 operational environment characterised by high availability needs. This includes experience with oncall support to operational systems. Software, Technologies and Engineering skills Experience developing interacting middleware components and applications using CORBA Experience with scripting languages e.g. Python, PHP, Unix Shell scripts, etc ... Experience developing software components and applications making use of Web Applications technologies client and server side Tomcat, Javascript, HTML5 Interpersonal Skills Due to the variety of the tasks and the scope of the systems to be supported, the key person shall be able to Quickly adapt to changes in assignments Manage his tasks in an efficient way demonstrating high degree of independence and autonomy Excellent analytical skills, effectiveness within a small team, good presentation and communication skills Conduct all activities in an orderly and disciplined manner, encouraging a friendly and cooperative working environment, demonstrating capabilities in applying principles, accept criticism and being open to discussing and share solutions with other Fluency in English. REFERENCE 17940276 LOCATION Darmstadt, Germany CONTACT recruitmoltek.net CLOSING DATE 16th October 2017 MOLTEK has been serving the space and aerospace industries since 1995, providing international consultancy services for a wide variety of clients from private and public corporations to national and international authorities and agencies. For more detailed information about MOLTEK go to httpwww.moltek.com We are looking to further enhance our team by adding a Generic Mission Control Applications Engineer You will be based initially for 1 year at our clients headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Extension of a further 3 years may be possible. In this large European Agency you will find an excellent and modern working environment with challenging tasks and responsibilities. Your Tasks Routine Corrective Maintenance Tasks Within the scope of the corrective and routine maintenance processes andor other maintenance activities, involving monitoring of the systems and taking appropriate actions to ensure or restore nominal performance, the Contractor shall perform the following tasks Support corrective maintenance, involving investigations into approved anomalies AR and enhancements ECP, implementation and testing of corrections Update and maintain a set of standard documents with each software delivery reflecting changes and improvements made if any with particular attention to the verification test plan, architectural design, interface control documents, user guides and any other identifiedaffected relevant document Takeover responsibility for routine delivery verification, in particular for coordinating the production of the release note, verification procedures, verification test report and, in overall, support conduction and execution of verification tests Review, update and maintain Operational baseline documentation covered by the maintenance activity Overall consultancy for the Operational endusers of the maintained applications software Contribute to the preparation and provision of training material covering usage and maintenance aspects of the application software. Engineering Evolution Tasks Within the scope of the continuous evolution of the Competence Area CA services and configuration management tools and maintenance processes, the Contractor shall perform to the following tasks Actively contribute to the 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 Generation andor analysis of userdriven and maintenancedriven software requirements, generation of the corresponding engineering change proposals, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes Development andor Enhancement of the verification infrastructure covering the development andor procurement of scriptstools 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 Actively contribute to the evolution of the Service and Configuration Management tools used at Competence Area CA level to support, planning and tracking of performed teams activities Facilitate as much as possible, the handover of acquired responsibilities to other team members in accordance and as regulated by the Team Leader Actively contribute to the definition, implementations and configuration of the MCAT Continuous Integration and Configuration Management tools and applications. Your Profile In addition to having a university degree, or equivalent, in related disciplines, the individual skills of the key personnel shall together satisfy the criteria reported in the sections below. Mandatory Skills System Development Maintenance Skills Experience in software development and maintenance following formal software lifecycle processes resulting in multiple customer deliveries covering production of requirements, design engineering artefacts and implementation reflecting corrective and evolution software maintenance activities as well as new applications definition Experience in verification and validation process and expertise of supporting testing campaigns and related activities test procedure generation, nonregression testing, requirements verification and validation. Software, Technologies and Engineering skills Extensive experience minimum 5 years in designing and developing software components and applications using Object Oriented 00 approach including design patterns Extensive experience minimum 5 years designing and developing software components and applications using C, Java and scripting languages under both Windows and Linux platforms Experience with formal software development environments like Eclipse IDE and Microsoft Visual Studio. Documentation and Configuration Management Skills Experience in using Configuration Management and Anomaly Reporting and Tracking tools. Optional Skills It would be a distinct advantage for the proposed candidate to show experience with some of the following optional skills Domain Skills Expertise in the definition, development and maintenance of Mission Control Functions software applications with focus on development whole life cycle for typical MC applications covering aspects like TMTC, Automation schedule and procedure execution, Operations Preparation, etc. Knowledge and understanding with working experience evidence of space related standards ECSS and CCSDS related to spacetoground interfaces Knowledge of ESA mission control software products, such as MICONYS suite e.g. SCOS2000, NIS, EDDS, GFTS, etc. Spacecraft andor TTC GSt simulation environmentssystems e.g SIMSAT, TEVALIS Experience with MC systems and related user requirementsneeds for GEO missions. System Development Maintenance Skills Software support to users and in general to Flight Control Teams Work experience in a 247 operational environment characterised by high availability needs. This includes experience with oncall support to operational systems. Software, Technologies and Engineering skills Experience developing interacting middleware components and applications using CORBA Experience with scripting languages e.g. Python, PHP, Unix Shell scripts, etc ... Experience developing software components and applications making use of Web Applications technologies client and server side Tomcat, Javascript, HTML5 Interpersonal Skills Due to the variety of the tasks and the scope of the systems to be supported, the key person shall be able to Quickly adapt to changes in assignments Manage his tasks in an efficient way demonstrating high degree of independence and autonomy Excellent analytical skills, effectiveness within a small team, good presentation and communication skills Conduct all activities in an orderly and disciplined manner, encouraging a friendly and cooperative working environment, demonstrating capabilities in applying principles, accept criticism and being open to discussing and share solutions with other Fluency in English. REFERENCE 17940276 LOCATION Darmstadt, Germany CONTACT recruitmoltek.net CLOSING DATE 16th October 2017 MOLTEK has been serving the space and aerospace industries since 1995, providing international consultancy services for a wide variety of clients from private and public corporations to national and international authorities and agencies. For more detailed information about MOLTEK go to httpwww.moltek.com

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Software Engineer for Mission Planning Software Development MF

2017-10-02 16:11:43| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

About us Space Applications Services NVSA performs system and software engineering for the European Space Agency ESA, National Space Agencies and the aerospace industry. We are involved in international manned unmanned spacecraft programmes, earth observation, science, exploration, communications and related technology development. We have a vacancy for a person wishing to join the Control and Data Centres team Team in Software Engineer for Mission Planning Software Development MF SESYSCDC201709HQ001 Tasks and Responsibilities The successful candidate will join the Control and Data Centres team, whose activities cover the development of ground control systems, controlling the experiments done on board of the International Space Station, and different future space crafts, as well as the development of space weather related systems. The initial assignment is the development of mission planning software for the European Space Agency and NASA Missions in the International Space Station have to be designed carefully, taking into account the specific constraints of the mission and the availability of resources and astronauts In addition, ESA and NASA have to coordinate their plans constantly to avoid conflicts In this activity, the software will be developed using an agile method. Qualifications and Experience For this position, you must have a university degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent 2 to 5 years of experience in design development of software implemented in Java andor Python Experience with the software development lifecycle Fluent with relational databases and SQL Competent in writing highquality software project documentation in English Good knowledge of Linux systems as a user and administrator o Good understanding of IP networks, firewalls, VPN, PKI, routing o Open Source Server environment OpenLDAP, FTP, Samba. The following capabilities will be considered as an advantage for the position Experience with Python and Django framework, development of enterprise software Experience with modern frontend programming, especially ES6 and React Competent with system deployment and orchestration tools Docker, Ansible Knowledge and experience with ECSS E40 standard. Candidates will have the following skills Fluency in English written and oral Able to deal with confidential matters correctly Ability to work in multicultural teams Problemsolving attitude. What Do We Offer? Working in a growing company, with offices located in Belgium, the Netherlands and the USA A professional, pleasant atmosphere with motivated staff and where autonomy and initiatives are encouraged and with various career growth opportunities An interesting remuneration package A full time employment position. Preference will be given to candidates eligible to work in the European Union or in possession of a European Blue Card for two or more years. The work may require international travel for meetings. We are looking for someone to start as soon as possible. How To Apply? By clicking on the Apply link next to this position on our website httpcareers.spaceapplications.com. Make sure to include your CV and Motivation Letter both in English to the attention of Mr. Rani Pinchuk. The application deadline is 30th November 2017. Leuvensesteenweg 325 1932 Sint StevensWoluwe Brussels area, Belgium Tel 32 02 721.54.84 www.spaceapplications.com

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