Do you want to be part of the space future? As support to a European space organisation we are looking for a LEO 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:

• Maintenance and evolution of low earth orbiting satellite data processing SW,
• Support the installation, configuration and testing of externally developed software,
• Contribution to software system design and re-engineering,
• Support to the development and implementation of tools
• System definition, interface design and system integration and testing,
• Setting-up and implementation of maintenance policies and procedures
• Anomaly investigation, documentation, classification and resolution.

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,
• Operating and maintaining software systems under UNIX (LINUX and AIX), C/C++
• Software build environments and tools (e.g. make, imake, debuggers, insure++),
• Source code control system, preferably Subversion or CVS,
• MMI design and build, Web-based programming, Ajax, XML, XPATH, SVG,
• Database backed content management systems, Oracle 10/11,
• Fluency in English is mandatory, some knowledge of French would be an asset.

Starting date: January 2011

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.