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Ground Stations Operations Engineering Support

2016-08-03 17:07:29| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Since 1979, Italian ACS has been a Software System Integrator. As a Payload Data Ground Segment specialist, ACS develops componentssubsystemsground stations for satellite data acquisition, processing and dissemination. The company is active in geospatial multisource applications development for planning and management of environmental risks infrastructures and realtime handling of large data streams. ACS offer to their customers the complete range of services from the collection of user requirements to operational activities support. Our German subsidiary ACSD provides consultancy service at EUMETSAT Darmstadt. Selected candidate will sign permanent full time contract and work at EUM premises. Besides an opportunity to work in international environment, ACS can offer competitive salary, attractive benefits package tailored to specific needs, training and career growth within ACS group, support for relocation to Darmstadt. For our activities in Germany, we are looking for a person to provide Ground Stations Operations Engineering Support. TASKS Longterm planning and shortterm scheduling of the operational usage of the ground stations to support both the needs of the Flight Operations Division FLO and Ground Stations engineering team Interface with project teams for the implementation of system upgrades to support major operations projects and major activities described in the Operational System MidTerm Evolution Plan. This will include ground station changes required to support major space segment evolutions Interfacing with the ground stations maintenance teams and industry representatives to ensure optimized performance by the ground stations, including participating in the definition, specification and implementation of any changes Planning and coordination of upgrades, repairs and evolutions with the engineering teams and FLO division Organizing the validation of these upgrades, repairs and evolutions with the Controller Teams Definition and maintenance of ground station operations procedures and operations guides Maintaining operational ground stations databases Investigation into anomalies, their documentation, classification and correctionmitigation, participation in associated Anomaly Review Boards Provision of training, through production and presentation of written materials, practical demonstrations and presentations, to other members of the Operations Department Mandatory Skills University degree in a relevant technical discipline or the equivalent ground stations experience At least 5 years experience in ground stations TTC operations in support of multiple Geostationary GEO andor Low Earth Orbit LEO spacecraft At least 5 years experience in a realtime 247 spacecraft operations environment, ideally in an earth observation environment Excellent interpersonal and coordination skills Able to work effectively in English EU national or valid work permit for Germany CV in Europass format Distinct advantage Major upgrades or evolutions of operational ground stations Defining and implementing the verification and validation of ground stations interfaces between ground stations and ground segments Firstline hardware and software failure diagnosis and correction Baseband operation and configuration

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Atmospheric Motion Vector Product Software Engineering Consultancy Support

2016-07-22 10:06:55| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

With 1.800 employees worldwide, the CS Group is a leading IT company in France and in Germany, and a prime contractor in designing, integrating and operating mission critical systems. It has now been over 30 years that comprehensive CS solutions for space systems and applications, both on the ground and in space, have been part and parcel of this odyssey. Our German activities grow at fast pace and to face our costumers high level expectations and needs, we are looking for talented profiles having relevant experience in Space systems. Within RSP Remote Sensing and Products Division, the key person will support the team of the Atmospheric and Imaging Applications AIA in the group responsible for the scientific AMV product development and implementation. The tasks of the Key person will typically include Algorithm software anomaly investigation and correction Design and implementation of algorithm enhancements or improvements Software feasibility analyses of proposed new product algorithms, or major algorithm upgrades Development of tools in support of product monitoring and product analysis, for example as part of EPS PPF product validation testing Preparation of technical documents on product implementation issues Preparation of technical notes and reports as required Attendance at technical and RSPAIA team meetings as required The focus of these tasks will primarily be on the AMV products extracted from both geostationary and polar orbit systems however, there may tasks related to other products for which the work of the key person may be partially allocated. PROFILE In addition to having a University degree or comparable qualifications in Meteorology, Atmospheric Physics or related subjects, the Key person shall have a minimum of four years experience of processing satellite or meteorological data. Specifically the Key person shall have Proven experience in the design, implementation, and testing of complex scientific algorithm software Proven experience of software development in C, C and Fortran in a UNIX environment Proven experience in software development using data visualisation and analysis tools e.g. PYTHON, IDL Experience in configuration control of software and data Sound knowledge and experience in the area of Atmospheric Motion Vectors extraction from satellite imagery, or experience with image processing algorithms in the area of feature identification and tracking, or experience with optical flow methods would be a distinct advantage. Another distinct advantage would be experience in operational data processing. The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore the Engineer must be able to work effectively in this language and have knowledge of the other. How to apply Please consider the following points before applying Please submit your complete application documents in English. An attached cover letter should mention your availability and salary expectations. Interested applicants should submit their CV to pierre.lenahediccssytems.de and copy to francoisxavier.laffontcs.fr with the job title. Due to new work permit restrictions for this position, please apply only if you are citizen of a European Union state or if you hold all appropriate documentation and permits to work in Europe. Closing date 5th September 2016 Starting Date 1st of January 2017 Interviews week 3839 2016

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Copernicus Monitoring Applications Software Engineering Support

2016-07-22 10:06:55| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

With 1.800 employees worldwide, the CS Group is a leading IT company in France and in Germany, and a prime contractor in designing, integrating and operating mission critical systems. It has now been over 30 years that comprehensive CS solutions for space systems and applications, both on the ground and in space, have been part and parcel of this odyssey. Our German activities grow at fast pace and to face our costumers high level expectations and needs, we are looking for talented profiles having relevant experience in Space systems. The key person will support the TSS Technical and Scientific Support Department as a member of the Mission Control Applications and Tools Team, which is part of the GSI Generic Systems and Infrastructure Division. The key person will provide hisher prime support to the Mission Control Applications and Tools Team and heshe will support Maintenance of the EUMETSAT CopernicusSentinel3 Mission Control Applications and MMEMon tools instantiation for Sentinel3 Requirements specification, design, development implementation, integration and verification of extensions including future obsolesces reengineering of Sentinel3 mission control applications and tools and MME. Support to users in investigation andor handling in the operational usage of the Sentinel3 mission control applications and tools and MME. Provide MCAT with strong software technologies expertise in the area of web applications The tasks of the key person will typically include Maintenance and Evolution Activities Preventive and corrective maintenance including the investigation and correction or following the corrections implemented by external contractors of anomalies in the software facilities and verification testing of the fixes. Engineering activities analysis of the porting of some subsystems to stateoftheart technologies, tradeoff studies of various technologies, software design of the technical solutions as following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Maintenance of test plan and test procedures generation and updates of maintenance test plan and related test procedures at software level and at level. Support and development of the verification infrastructure development andor procurement of scripts tools to perform installation checks, nonregression, functional and performance testing. Analysis and implementation of mechanisms or tools allowing the automatic or semiautomatic verification testing of the application software. Coordination of the production of new software releases or patches, delivery acceptance and installation onsite. This activity includes the technical coordination of the production by an external contractor of new releases or patches of the application software, liaison with the EUMETSAT operational users, participation in technical reviews, participation in factory at contractor premises acceptance testing campaigns and coordination of the installation of the releases or patches onsite at EUMETSAT. Execution and coordination of software verification and nonregression testing campaigns. This activity includes preparation of test data, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports, analysis of results and troubleshooting of problems. Documentation generation and updates of technical documents. Technical Assessment and Review acting as technical experts heshe will support the coordination, assessment and review process for engineering artefacts and technical documentation produced in the scope of maintenance activities. User Support Software support software support to the endusers of the application software. Ensure if specifically required operations continuity during critical periods by provision of oncall services and software support to operations. PROFILE In addition to having a University degree in a relevant engineering discipline, the key person shall demonstrate significant knowledge and experience in the area of software applications requirements definition, design, implementation, verification and maintenance. The key person shall have skills and experience in the following mandatory areas Software Engineering Maintenance Skills Experience minimum 5 years in the full cycle of development and maintenance of software application following formal software engineering processes Experience minimum 5 years definition of software requirements, architectural design, implementation and maintenance of 247 applications based on java technologies within web based deployment Experience minimum 3 years in IVV integration, verification and validation activities following formal engineering processes. This includes requirement verification, system and subsystem integration, generation of test plan and test procedures, nonregression testing, generation of test data, generation of test tools, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports and anomaly tracking. Software Technologies Skills Experience minimum 3 years in designing and implementing backend software applications using Servlet containers e.g. Tomcat, JBoss and Java programming languages for UNIXLinux operating systems Experience minimum 3 years in designing and implement web client applications using GWT and HTML 5 technologies javascript, CSS, HTML and javascript frameworks Experience minimum 2 years in designing and implementing applications based on Messaging Oriented Middleware and using ActiveMQ andor ZeroMQ as message brokers Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software applications using interfaces to relational database management systems RDBMS and experience with data model design for RDBMS. It would be a distinct advantage for the key person to have knowledge andor experience with some of the following Maintenance Technical Management Skills Experience in being the technical point of contact for contractors working at offsite premises and responsible for application software evolution and maintenance. XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSLT and XPath. Experience using tools for the automation of software testing. Software Technology Skills Experience in using Unified Modelling Language UML for software design. The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore the Engineer must be able to work effectively in this language and have knowledge of the other. How to apply Please consider the following points before applying Please submit your complete application documents in English. An attached cover letter should mention your availability and salary expectations. Interested applicants should submit their CV to pierre.lenahediccssytems.de and copy to francoisxavier.laffontcs.fr with the job title. Due to new work permit restrictions for this position, please apply only if you are citizen of a European Union state or if you hold all appropriate documentation and permits to work in Europe. Closing date 29th August 2016 Starting Date SeptemberOctober 2016 Interviews To be determined

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Space Structures Engineering Support

2016-07-20 14:05:59| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

We are currently looking for candidates to work in the Directorate of Technical and Quality Management onsite at ESTEC in the Mechanisms Engineering Department. You will lend support to the Agencys projects, technology research activities and evaluations of industrial contractors documentation and test verifications. Tasks and Responsibilities Fluid Structures, Vibroacoustic and Shock Modelling and Analysis You shall be responsible for the generation and setup of dynamic mathematical models for fluidstructure interaction effects, vibroacoustic and shock response for spacecraft, launchers and instruments of Agency funded projects using the Finite Element, the Boundary Element, and the Statistical Energy Analysis method where applicable, taking into account the specific objectives of such analyses for incompressible and compressible fluids. The above shall include but not be limited to tanks with without membranes, solar arrays, spacecraft subsystem and system models. Shall further perform the dynamic analysis modes, frequency transient acoustic responses shock responses, evaluate critically the results and issue relevant documentation covering all analysis steps Shall take into account the specific objectives of such analyses and where necessary nonlinear approaches shall be considered and specific solution sequences shall be developed Shall support the Agency in the definition and implementation of technology developments in this area aiming at enhancing relevant tools and methodologies Dynamic Test Data Analysis and Correlation You shall be responsible for the support to the Agency in operating analysis tools for the analysis of dynamic test data modal survey, frequency transient responses, shock responses for spacecraft launchers of Agency funded projects and comparison with analytical predictions Shall further perform where relevant modal identification of the test data, evaluate critically the results and make usage of these results for updating structural finite element models Shall perform where relevant, assessment of shock response data Shall take into account the specific objectives of such analyses and where necessary nonlinear approaches shall be considered and specific solution sequences shall be developed Shall issue relevant documentation covering all analysis steps. Where applicable you shall produce advanced reduced dynamic mathematical models Generation of Load Cases for Static and Dynamic Structural Dimensioning You shall be responsible for the generation and setup of load cases for static and dynamic structural analysis design and tests for Agency funded projects. Heshe shall make use of mathematical model responses, Launcher Coupled Analysis results, MultiBody Dynamics analysis tools, as well as test flight data and be familiar with spacecraft design practices. Heshe shall also evaluate critically the results and the loads and issue relevant documentation. Other tasks Support the activities of development contracts regarding the above areas, including direct interfaces with the prime contractors, participate in progress meetings and reviews, as requested, and provide appropriate feedback on the achieved progress and discussions Interfacing with the prime contractors, participate in progress meetings and reviews, as requested by project work, and provide appropriate feedback on the achieved progress and discussions Experience and Education Masters in mechanical or aeronautical engineering plus a minimum of 4 year working experience in the Space industry Several years of experience in the field of light structures dynamic behaviour and modelling, fluid structure interaction and vibroacoustic modelling You should have adequate knowledge in the relevant software, such as Nastran, Patran, Rayon, AutSEA, DynaWorks, SIMPACK, DCAP, FABE. Some experience with CAD software such as Catia5 would be an advantage. Additionally, some experience on fracture control and, in particular on fracture crack growth and fatigue analyses using ESACRACK and ESAFATIGUE would be an asset

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Atmospheric Motion Vector Product Software Engineering Consultancy Support

2016-07-19 18:05:36| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

POSITION ID OT2856 ROLE FUNCTION Atmospheric Motion Vector Product Software Engineering Consultancy Support in Darmstadt Germany GENERAL CONDITIONS START January 2017 LOCATION Darmstadt TYPE OF BUSINESS Aerospace CONTRACT fulltime employment WORKING LANGUAGE English, French is considered an advantage DEADLINE 05. September 2016 MUSTHAVE SKILLS MANDATORY In addition to having a University degree or comparable qualifications in Meteorology, Atmospheric Physics or related subjects, the Key person shall have a minimum of four years experience of processing satellite or meteorological data. Specifically the Key person shall have Proven experience in the design, implementation, and testing of complex scientific algorithm software Proven experience of software development in C, C and Fortran in a UNIX environment Proven experience in software development using data visualisation and analysis tools e.g. PYTHON, IDL Experience in configuration control of software and data NICETOHAVE SKILLS CONSIDERED AS AN ADVANTAGE It would be a distinct advantage for the key person to have knowledge andor experience with some of the following Sound knowledge and experience in the area of Atmospheric Motion Vectors extraction from satellite imagery or experience with image processing algorithms in the area of feature identification and tracking or experience with optical flow methods experience in operational data processing The Key person shall be able to conduct all activities in an orderly and disciplined manner, shall be able to work calmly and correctly under stress, and must be able to work with the minimum of supervision. The Key person shall possess good interpersonal skills. Tasks Within RSP, the key person will support the team of the Atmospheric and Imaging Applications AIA in the group responsible for the scientific AMV product development and implementation. The tasks of the key person will typically include Algorithm software anomaly investigation and correction Design and implementation of algorithm enhancements or improvements Software feasibility analyses of proposed new product algorithms, or major algorithm upgrades Development of tools in support of product monitoring and product analysis, for example as part of EPS PPF product validation testing Preparation of technical documents on product implementation issues Preparation of technical notes and reports as required Attendance at technical and RSPAIA team meetings as required

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