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Mission Control Applications Software Engineer
2014-04-15 18:35:25| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Mission Control Applications Software Engineer, based at EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany 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. All members of our recruitment team have extensive space experience, so have the insight necessary to support you through the application process. For our activities at EUMETSAT, we are looking for a Mission Control Applications Software Engineer for the Sentinel3 mission. Sentinel3 is a Low Earth Orbiting mission to support services relating to the marine and global land environment, with capability to serve further atmospheric and cryosphericbased application areas. The objectives of the Sentinel3 mission encompass the commitment to consistent, longterm collection of remotely sensed marine and land data, of uniform quality, for operational ocean state analysis, forecasting and service provision, in the context of the Copernicus Services as set up by the European Commission. Tasks The Mission Control Applications Software Engineer MCASE shall provide prime support to the evolution and maintenance of the EUMETSAT Copernicus Sentinel3 Flight Operations System FOS, Mission Planning System and the TMPropagator Tool. The Flight Operations System is composed of the Mission Control System, the Flight Dynamics System and OpsPrep Tools. The TMPropagator Tool is used for the distribution over the Internet to the endusers of spacecraft and ground telemetry in realtime and also playback. Qualifications and Requirements A University degree or equivalent plus 8 to 10 years of experience A minimum of 5 year experience in the following mandatory areas Design and maintenance of Satellite Mission Control Systems, Flight Dynamics Systems and Mission Planning Systems Full development lifecycle of application software, including integration, verification testing and maintenance phases, following formal software engineering processes Software engineering applied to design and development of software components and applications using Object Oriented OO approach Space related standards ECSS and CCSDS concerning spacetoground interfaces and applicable to Satellite Mission Control Systems Development of software applications using C under UNIX operating systems. Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Germany or be EU nationals. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply by either clicking on, or copying into your browser, the URL below. httpswww.amris.comsercorequirementdisplay.php?refSearchrequirementid51629 If you have any question regarding this position please email space.careersserco.com Position Mission Control Applications Software Engineer Reference G014088EUM Application closing date 300414 Start date Beginning 2015 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 EUMETSAT, please consult httpwww.eumetsat.int
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