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Mission Control Applications Engineer

2014-09-22 14:42:16| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

About us The SCISYS Space Division offers integrated system solutions in the business segments Space, Security and Earth observation. We are open to new ideas and focused on the future. If you would like to work in a constructive and friendly atmosphere in which you are encouraged to ask questions, please send us your application. Well be delighted to hear from you. For the location in Darmstadt Germany we are looking for a Mission Control Applications Engineer at EUMETSAT. Tasks The key person shall work 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 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 contribute to the requirements specification, design and development of Mission Control Applications for new Programmes PhaseBCD, including the setting up of the related maintenance arrangements and processes. The tasks of the key person will typically include Support to GSI MCA Activities Reference Architecture Participation to the definition and maintenance of the EUMETSAT TSS reference architecture for the Mission Control Applications part of the Ground Segment. Support to new Missions PhaseB activities Requirements engineering Participation to the functional analysis and decomposition of the Ground Segment requirements in the domain of Mission Control Applications. Support the definition of Ground Segment requirements in the area of the Mission Control Applications. Participation to workshops and review meetings. Interfacing with Operations to consolidate the operational concept in the Mission Control Applications requirements. Support the identification of the verification method and initial test cases for the Mission Control Applications requirements. Incorporate the reuse of the EUMETSAT Mission Control Application kernel products in the Ground Segment requirements. Interfacing with the Mission Control Applications 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 Control Applications 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 Control Applications and other Ground Segment or external elements. Incorporate the reuse of the EUMETSAT Mission Control Applications kernel products in the Ground Segment design. Support to New Mission PhaseCD activities Support to Applications 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 Control Applications. Support to IVV and Acceptance Participation in verification readiness reviews and verification testing campaigns both internal and with external contractors. Essential requirements 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 and maintenance of Mission Control Applications. The key person shall have skills and experience in the following mandatory areas Domain Skills Experience minimum 3 years in the definition of system requirements and production of system architectural design artefacts in the domain of the Mission Control Applications of a Ground Segment. Experience minimum 3 years in the definition of requirements and architectural design for the following individual subsystems Satellite Monitoring Control, Mission Planning and Flight Dynamics. Experience minimum 3 years in software maintenance and evolution of Satellite Monitoring Control Systems based on MICONYS software suite from ESAESOC. In particular experience in the telemetry and commanding chains, archive and automation components is considered mandatory. Knowledge and understanding with actual working experience of space related standards ECSS and CCSDS concerning spacetoground interfaces and applicable to Satellite Mission Control Systems such as ECSS Packet Utilisation Standard PUS, CCSDS Space Packet Protocol SPP and CCSDS Space Link Extension Protocol SLE. Software Development, Verification Maintenance Skills Extensive experience minimum 5 years in the full cycle of development of Mission Control Applications 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 for Mission Control Applications 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. Desirable requirements It would be a distinct advantage for the key person to have knowledge andor experience with some of the following Domain Skills Experience with Mission Control Applications for LEO spacecraft. Experience with Satellite Simulators. Technology Skills IBM DOORS requirement management Tool. Vitech CORE Systems Engineering Tool. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Tool. Linux Operating System. Data model design for RDBMS. XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSLT and XPath. Eclipse Rich Client Platform applications development and maintenance. Experience using tools for the automation of software testing. Other Information Fluency in English is mandatory Starte date is 1st December 2014 Candidates must be an EU citizen or hold a valid German work and residence visa To ensure your application reaches us please apply online at httpwww.scisys.despacejobs

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