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2018-08-15 17:27:56| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
HE Space is a successful international space company. For over 35 years, we have been supporting our customers with qualified experts in the field of engineering, science and administration. We are currently looking for a Operations Support Scientist to support our customer in Spain. Operations Support Scientist Key Tasks and Responsibilities The Operations Support Scientist works within the XMMNewton Team at ESAESAC with responsibilities that will include Participation to the systematic processing of all scientific mission data as they become available Provision of scientific requirements of the pipeline products Participation in the production and regular updating of the XMMNewton source catalogues Contribute to instrument calibration or scientific performance monitoring within team activities Possibly, development of new algorithms or shared scripts for scientific analysis. Skills Experience You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience PhD in astronomy, astrophysics or similar Expertise in astronomical observations, preferably Xray astronomy, to understand the needs and requirements of the XMMNewton community for the planning and implementation of requested observations and to competently deal with community questions on these observations Command of commonly used generic analysis software, like IDL, or Python, and of Xray astronomical data analysis software in particular, with preference to the XMMNewton SAS, FTOOLs and XSPEC or similar, in order to competently interact with and support the community in their use of XMMNewton data Understanding of the tasks in scientific operations support for an international space or ground based observatory. Knowledge of the specifics of astronomical Xray detectors, preferably those of XMMNewton Ability to interact with and provide support to users from a worldwide community and crossing multiple disciplines Fluency in English is mandatory knowledge of another European language is an advantage. This job is located in Madrid. We welcome applicants who are available from November 2018 or as soon as possible thereafter. If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send us your CV together with a letter of motivation both in English and in Word to Ms Elisa Manfreda at jobshespace.com, quoting job NLHP3888 before 15Sep18. An exciting and dynamic international working environment awaits you! Apply for this job
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