Passive Microwave Specialist - Darmstadt, Deutschland - HE Space

HE Space

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Darmstadt, Deutschland

vor 2 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

Company Description HE Space** is a successful international space company. For 40 years, we have been supporting our customers with qualified experts in the field of engineering, science and administration.

As part of the Remote Sensing and Products (RSP) Division, you will have the following responsibilities on the microwave and sub-mm wave missions in the EPS-SG ground segment and for future missions at EUMETSAT:

Scientific and technical support to Level 1 and Level 2 product processing functions;
Level 1 and Level 2 Cal/Val support & quality monitoring;
Scientific and technical support for algorithms implementation, refinement and evolution (Level 1 and Level 2).

Qualifications
You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience:

University degree in physical remote sensing, meteorology, oceanography, physics, IT/Computational Science, or equivalent;
At least three years of experience in the field of physical remote sensing in one or more of the areas listed above, including involvement in processing of satellite data up to level 1 (calibrated / geolocated radiances) and/or level 2 (geophysical parameters), satellite data monitoring;
Good written communication skills. These are essential for the fulfilment of the tasks;
Skills in writing scientific/technical documents;
Very good skills in a highlevel programming language, such as Fortran, C/C++, Java, Python;
Fluency in commandline use on Linux/Unix platforms;
Very good experience in scientific software development;
Experience with the development of modular, clearly readable and adaptable scientific software is required, including the configuration control of the developed codes;
Verification of operational product processing systems;
Configuration control of software and data;
Production monitoring and reporting;
Quality control of satellite data and products;
Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.

The following experience would be advantageous:

Experience with the specification, development and validation of satellite data processing chains;
Utilization of products from meteorological satellites;
Experience with calibration and product validation methods;
Experience with source code management processes (in particular branchbased development workflows, and peer code reviews) and tools (git, subversion);
Experience in software unit, acceptance, system and integration testing;
Familiarity with programming platform tools like Matlab;
Knowledge in radiative transfer;
Experience in the use of image processing software such as IDL or ENVI in a UNIX/Linux environment;
Experience in the use of Scripting Languages (e.g., Perl, Python, shell);
Experience in scientific computing using NumPy and SciPy;
Familiarity in manipulating analysis and forecast data from NWP models;
Experience in understanding and specifying requirements;
Experience in writing software documentation.

Additional Information
This job is located in
Darmstadt.

If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send us your CV together with a letter of motivation (both in English and in Word) to Viktoria Panicharova, clicking on the button "I ́m interested", quoting job
DE-HP-24100.

An exciting and dynamic international working environment awaits you