Data Processing Engineer

You will support operations related to Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS) maintenance in the area of data processing systems from instrument source packet level through to level-2.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing and providing the support of the day to day operations and maintenance;
• Analysis and testing of the facilities (including the handling of anomalies);
• Anomaly investigation and resolution;
• Design of upgrades and enhancements;
• Act as focal point for integrating the individual software components into the related data processing systems;
• Setting-up and implementing maintenance policies and procedures as well as the co-ordination with external providers of maintenance services
• Development of system monitoring and performance evaluation tools.

Skills and experience

• University Degree in a related Subject;
• Maintenance and engineering of large scale software systems, in particular mission/instrument data processing related;
• Software development lifecycles;
• Software testing, unit test suite maintenance, automated testing, verification and validation;
• Software debugging and profiling, source code control systems;
• EO front-end processors and LO processing within a framework based solution;
• ESA generic Instrument Processing Facility (IPF) interface specification;
• Networking technologies and tools (e.g. CCSDS protocols, Space Data Link protocols, FTP, PGM, TCP/IP, UDP multicasting, and tools such as Wireshark);
• C/C++/Java programming language experience in a UNIX/Linux based environment;
• Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.