System and Instrument Functional Chain Engineer

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

As a member of a team providing services to EUMETSAT you will be providing support, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Specification and validation of processing algorithms;
• Instrument characterisation & calibration;
• Coordination and Review of the processing specifications for the PDAP (payload and dat acquisition Processing) operational processors;
• Coordination and Review of the Satellite data formats;
• Generation of Test Data packages for End-to-End and Cross Verification of the processing chain;
• Support to IDS (Instrument Data Simulator) and GPP (Ground Processor Prototypes) development and reviews;
• Implications for and constraints by space and ground segment implementation;
• Investigation and review of instrument anomalies;
• Development of Python and C++ tools to facilitate reviews, investigations, analysis and data viewing;
• Providing technical documentation on L0 and L1 product specification, aux files specification, Test/Verification reports.

Requirements

Skills & Experience

You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Engineering, or relevant disciplines;
• Experience in the field of engineering of space and/or ground systems, in the area of Low-Earth Orbiting satellites including end-to-end data acquisition and processing;
• Experience in verifying instrument data processing systems;
• Experience in development of test data sets, test tools or instrument data processor
• prototypes;
• Experience in specification of operational products for earth observation missions;
• Experience in requirements-based design, development and verification process of polar satellite systems following the ECSS standards and using DOORS;
• Knowledge of relevant space-borne observation instruments (EPS-SG satellites will embark sounders and imagers from the ultraviolet to the microwave range, a scatterometer and a radio-occultation instrument).
• Experience with Linux, Bash scripting, Python, Matlab;
• Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of German is an advantage.

Advantage Qualification:

• Knowledge or experience of the EPS-SG Instruments, specification of Instrument Source Packets and algorithms to process L0 and L1 products;
• Proven experience in follow up preparation of algorithms processing specification and associated test data, including maintenance of the baseline;
• Knowledge of the EPS-SG Product content and specification;
• Knowledge of the EPS-SG processing algorithms and specification;
• Knowledge of the ESP-SG System and operational processors design;
• Familiarity with system change control and configuration management procedures;
• Data analysis software packages and programming/scripting skills in other coding languages such as Python / Java / Perl etc.;
• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering tools, specifically CORE 9 from Vitech.

Additional information

This job is located in Darmstadt,GERMANY

If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send your CV together with a letter of motivation (both in English and in Word) to Viktoria Panicharova by clicking on the button “Apply for this job” quoting job UK-HP-24036.

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