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Support to Gaia Science Software Development, RTCSRE067
2014-05-07 13:40:03| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Support to Gaia Science Software Development, based at European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain 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 in the European Space Astronomy Centre we are currently seeking to employ a Software Engineer to provide a number of specialised services to support ESA in developing Gaias Astrometric Global Iterative Solution AGIS software Main Service Tasks Responsibilities To provided as part of the Gaia SOC AGIS team in close coordination the scientific community to develop the Global Iterative Solution into an operational system Development and integration of scientific algorithms Service support must be provided for Coding scientific algorithms in Java following detailed mathematical descriptions Integrating these algorithms into the AGIS framework Testing and validating new implemented functionality unit integration tests using simulation data optimize new code in terms of memory CPU usage All activities will be supported by SOC personnel and collaborating external scientists. Maintenance of existing code modules, support must be provided for maintenance of existing code. In particular Analyse and resolve known deficiencies and inadequacies Issues of existing AGIS software modules Verify and validate that issues have been resolved usually in the form of extending existing tests andor conduction of new largescale tests System verification and scientific validation Aid in the definition, conduction and analysis of largescale testing campaigns including a first assessment of the scientific quality of results Documenting results of test campaigns in the form of validation test reports Aid in the creation of the first astrometric solution L22m, support the SOC personnel in all activities needed to generate the first astrometric solution with real flight data, such as Populating the operational AGIS processing DB with IDT and all needed auxiliary data Starting the AGIS run Monitoring the execution of the run from a technical and scientific viewpoint In case of problems, diagnose their cause and implement rectifying actions All activities will be supported by SOC personnel and collaborating external scientists. In addition to AGIS the Gaia SOC is responsible for operating and maintaining a number of other key systems like the Initial Data Treatment IDT or the central Gaia Tools Java Library. You may be asked to support maintaining these systems in phases of manpower shortage. Qualifications and Requirements Applicants require a University degree, minimum of a Masters, and background in a scientific or technical subject together with relevant professional experience of at least 5 years in software development. Essential Skills Experience and proficiency in the following fields is required Development andor maintenance of complex scientific data processing systems, preferably in Java Strong background in mathematics and numerical modelling of data Standard Software development techniques and associated tools Eclipse, Subversion, JUnit, ant, continuous integration, automated testing Scripting with Python and SciPy NumPy, Matplotlib UNIX, Linux, operating system Product assurance processes and techniques Working with ESA Standards, Frameworks and Tools e.g. ECSS LaTeX You shall have Good communications skills Excellent documentation skills Willingness to travel to meetings with the scientific community andor working visits Be comfortable in an international working environment The working language is English, you shall be fluent in written and spoken English Please note that Serco reserves the right of changing the advertisement closing date or to close vacancy at any time. We therefore strongly advise you to apply for the role promptly in order to avoid any disappointment in such exceptional circumstances. Applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Spain or be EU nationals. If you think you have the skills and experience required for this post please make your application via our eRecruitment site httpswww.amris.comsercorequirementdisplay.php?refSearchrequirementid52433 If you have any questions regarding this opportunity please address them to our recruitment team at space.careersserco.com Position Software Engineer Reference RTCSRE067 Application closing date 25 May 2014 Start date 1st July 2014 Duration 2 years Important Please be aware that security clearance may be part of the selection process Register with Serco eRecruitment for automatic email alerts for new opportunities 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
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