Do you want to be part of the space future? As support to a European space organisation we are looking for a LEO Data & Product Processing SW Engineer

Activities

Our customer is a European organisation providing weather and climate-related satellite data, images and products for its users. You will be working on-site as a member of the Operations Department - Maintenance and Engineering Team. Tasks will include:

• Development and maintenance of low earth orbiting satellite data processing SW,
• Support the installation, configuration and testing of externally developed software,
• Contribute towards the building and distribution of software releases,
• Perform system integration and validation activities, identify and correct anomalies,
• Provide on-call support to the operational systems.

Skills

You ideally have the following qualifications and significant professional experience:

• University degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline,
• At least three years professional experience in UNIX application development and support,
• Meteorological satellite data product processing,
• Quality control/calibration and validation of meteorological satellite data products,
• Large, operational, real-time data processing systems,
• UNIX (LINUX & AIX), C, C++, Java and FORTRAN,
• Configuration control with Subversion or CVS,
• Build environments make, imake, debuggers, insure++,
• XML, XPATH, SVG,
• Design and implementation of MMI using different toolkits and languages,
• Fluency in English is mandatory, some knowledge of French would be an asset.

Starting date: November 2010

An exciting international working environment in a highly innovative team awaits you. You will benefit from focused training and personal development bundled with a competitive salary.

Please note: Due to work permit restrictions for this position, please apply only if you are citizen of a European Union state or if you already hold a work permit for Germany.

HE Space Operations is a growing international space company. For over 25 years we have provided our customers with consultancy services in Engineering and Business Administration. We open the door to working directly on-site with our principal customers in the space sector who rank amongst the top 25 engineering employers in Europe: EADS and the European Space Agency.