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Low Level Software Development Engineer
2015-08-31 18:03:49| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Serco is a FTSE 250 international service company that improves the quality and efficiency of essential services that matter to millions of people around the world. The work we do for national and local governments involves us in the most important areas of public services, including science and defence. Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. With over 1500 staff in the space business covering a wide spectrum of experience and skills, we convey best practice, expertise and innovation in our business. For our activities in ESTEC, we are currently looking for a Low Level Software Development Engineer. Tasks and Responsibilities The short term objective is twofold project laboratory with more importance given to handson project support activities and laboratory activities. For shortterm objectives, the key person is expected to perform the following task Support to the setup and exploitation for project support of a system software coengineering environment and demonstrator in the ESAEstec laboratory of the Software Engineering and Standardisation section, which includes various modeling tools Sirius, Acceleo, Taste editor, GeneAuto, SDL, Simulink, etc and associated autocode generators. The network of PC used to model and generate the software is connected to Leon Sparc boards where the installed middleware will receive the generated codes. The key person under the guidance of the sections team members, will support the development and integration of the demonstrator from elements developed in house or from industrial contracts. The result will be i a demonstrator that will be shown to ESA and industry projects, and ii an environment supported by a process and user manual for future project support, in terms of requirement modelling and verification, and software prototyping Support to project or project reviews such as micro gravity experiments, Exomars, Proba, Cheops, Telecom, Solo, Pride, Euclid, Galileo, MPCV review of selected documents or code against the review objectives Support the TASTE product of the section by replying to users needs, maintaining the product, adding functionalities on request, in view of supporting projects such as Galileo, SGEO, Proba, etc and prototyping the RD ideas of the section such as HWSW codesign, full model driven approach, implementation of the obsw reference architecture, etc. Support robotic laboratory prototyping activities. For longterm objectives, the key person is expected to perform the following task To contribute to the development of a realistic spacecraft software, based on all the sections technologies models, hard real time, reference architecture validated on the Avionics Test Bench of the Division laboratory. A next step could be in the future to fly it on a small spacecraftcubesatpayload. Practically, this activity includes maintenance of the TASTE toolchain Ocarina, PolyORBHIC, Taste Daemon, Taste GUI, verification of the continuous build process httptaste.tuxfamily.org prototype of architectural solutions to handle concepts such as SOIS, OnBoard Control Procedures, TSP, hardwaresoftware codesign, etc support to trainee support to the TECEC Control sections for the use of Taste to prototype various algorithms on Leon, multicore, etc potential operating system support support to RTEMS maintenance in particular 4.8Edisoft, verification of Edisoft output and of the discussions between Edisoft and OAR, use of RTEMS in projects such as Galileo and SOLO, RTEMS for multicore and coordination with CNES, RTEMS for partitioning kernel, potentially support to XtratuM support to model based avionics potential modeling of avionics architecture e.g. in AADL in support of e.g. Savoir, Gaia, Solo, etc open Source software potential support to the organisation and animation of the Summer Of Code In Space SOCIS httpsophia.estec.esa.intsocis2011 software engineering laboratory assets management, internal server management in relation with the informatics support team and within the Software and Avionics laboratory. Requirements University degree MSc in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent, together with good background of practical experience within realtime software systems and software engineering and minimum of 4 years of postgraduation professional experience. In particular experience with Modern software engineering methods and have hands on experience of software development and verification tools Experience within ESA space programmes and applications using the space qualified Knowledge of realtime embedded systems is necessary. Software practical experience, realtime software, design methods, cross compilers GNU, programming languages C and Ada, operating system e.g. RTEMS Knowledge of model based software engineering beyond UML,formal verification techniques and in particular model checking, is necessary. The following can be considered an asset Knowledge in space onboard software Knowledge of the TASTE tool httptaste.tuxfamily.org, or of the modeling language and tools, SDL, Simulink and ASN.1, autocode techniques Knowledge in software architecture, component model, communication middleware all for embedded Knowledge in avionics in general and of the space processors in particular Leon, i.e. sparc architecture, gcc. llvm, potentially multicore, and related communication busses SpaceWire, 1553 Experience in systemsoftware requirements, tradeoff, modelling of embedded systems Knowledge in software standards space ECSS, aircrafts, train, automotive Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for the Netherlands or be EU nationals. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply via the relevant link available in our corporate careers website httpwww.serco.comcareersindex.asp If you have any question regarding this position please email space.careersserco.com Position Low Level Software Development Engineer Reference RTCTECPCS00243 Application closing date 21.09.2015 Start date ASAP If you are not yet registered with Serco we advise you to register your details by adding your details and attaching your CV via httpswww.amris.comsercoalertssignupform.php For additional information about Serco Group please consult our website www.serco.com For additional information about Serco Europe please consult our website www.serco.comeurope For additional information about ESOC, please consult httpwww.esa.intAboutUsESOC
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