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Reprocessing Engineering Support
2015-04-14 12:05:33| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
ACS is looking for the reprocessing implementation engineer consultancy. ACS has more than 30 years experience in delivering solutions for Earth Observation satellites Ground Segments. Based in Rome, Italy and in Darmstadt, Germany, we delivered systems currently in operation in 20 countries worldwide and have a long record of successful projects carried out for ESA, EUMETSAT, EMSA and many other Space Agencies and Research Centres. ACS recently established German subsidiary ACSD aims at better serving our customers based in Darmstadt area. ACS offers pleasant, international working environment at customer site very competitive salary attractive benefit package tailored on specific exigencies training and personal growth within ACS group, full support from a high technology company for relocation to Darmstadt. TASKS Development and implementation of relevant operational product reprocessing including algorithm processors in the reprocessing environment Software development and implementation of operational functional and product quality monitoring procedures for the data set generation monitoring and validation system Acquisition of relevant data from internal and external sources to support product quality monitoring in the reprocessing environment Initialisation, control and execution of operations with respect to both data set generation and evaluation activities Preparation of data sets for ingestion into the EUMETSAT Data Centre Support of the validation of products employing the quality monitoring procedures and other validation techniques as appropriate Support to the development and maintenance of operational procedures for the data set generation Compilation of technical notes on data set generation issues and relevant data set documentation including validation reports, user guides and format descriptions Support to compilation of results into presentations Attendance at scientific and technical meetings Support to international projects and coordinating organisations SKILLS Mandatory Experience A University degree or equivalent in Meteorology or similar relevant discipline with the experience and skills specified hereafter Basic knowledge in satellite meteorology andor oceanography related to climate Basic knowledge in satellite instrument calibration and intercalibration Demonstrated experience in measurement uncertainty analysis metrology andor validation of satellite products including climate data records At least 5 years demonstrated experiencein developing scientific software using higher programming languages, such as CC, FORTRAN, and IDL inclusive of object oriented software design Demonstrated experience in using scripting languages to organize data processing, such as Python, Perl, and Shellscript on operational Unix environments Demonstrated experience in software build environments and source code control systems e.g. Subversion, Rational ClearCase, CVS Experience in the usage of EUMETSAT native and community data formats NetCDF 3 and 4, GRIB, HDF5, and BUFR Experience in large data volume processing in operational processing environments Demonstrated experience in active participation in international projects. Strengths in analysis, synthesis and presentation, good interpersonal skills and a proven ability to apply these to the interactions within a team and between teams in international environment Able to work calmly and correctly under stress and must be able to work with the minimum of supervision. The working language for the position is English and therefore the Key Person must be able to work effectively in this language. Complementary ExperienceQualifications Expertise in inversion methods for the retrieval of geophysical parameters Demonstrable experience in designing, developing, implementing and maintaining database management systems such as MySQL or others Experience in development of web applications using GWT serverclient framework, Java, JavaScript, HTML and CSS Expertise in formalised software testing such as unit and regression testing. ADDITIONALLY EU national or valid work permit for Germany CV in Europass editable format
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