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Senior Software Engineer Science Operations
2014-12-31 11:06:06| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
The 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 Garching Germany we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer Science Operations Tasks The work involves maintenance and development of ETC applications for the VLT and VLT Interferometer VLTI within an existing CGI clientserver web application framework, in which the backend model and numerical calculation engine is implemented in C and the frontend mostly based on static HTML templates and some JavaScript. The activity will also include refurbishment and enhancements in particular in the C backend framework, towards establishing a dynamic interface to a new interactive singlepage web application frontend. The work will eventually include efforts in conversion and migration of the existing ETC applications to the new refurbished framework. Essential requirements The ideal Candidate is a software engineer with experience in developing numerical scientific applications in C and handling of scientific data and heshe should be used to work in a Unix Linux environment. Following skills are required University Degree in Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent Experience with web technologies, at least basic HTML and Ja vaScript Experience with software engineering practices and development tools, including version control, development environments and debuggers Desirable requirements Knowledge about observational astronomy, interferometry and astronomical instrumentation Working experience with web technologies, in particular HTML, CSS, JavaScript and related toolkits Experience with work on an existing software codebase in an international environment Some knowledge of scripting languages and Python Experience in code validation, unitregression testing Other Information Fluency in English is mandatory Start date July 2015
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