Job Description

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. HE Space has joined forces with CS Group to lead the engineering and digital space market in Europe and to provide highly skilled consulting.



Job Description

As part of the Satellite Image Navigation, Registration and Calibration team, you will have the following responsibilities:



Monitor the medium-term to long-term performance of Level 1 products; Improvement of Level 1 algorithms and the development of new ones; Support the procurement of space segment simulators and processors; Contribute to INRC developments, in particular the preparation of the PIQMICS/MICMICS Monitoring Systems, MTG INR Reference Processor, and Commissioning support; Contribute to the CO2M mission development; Product Quality monitoring of the operational Level 1 products (MSG SEVIRI Level 1.5, Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level 1B, Sentinel-3 OLCI Level 1B, and EPS AVHRR L1B products); Algorithm maintenance of the operational Level 1 Processors (MSG SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Processing Facility, Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level 1B Instrument Processing Facility, Sentinel-3 OLCI Level 1B Instrument Processing Facility, and EPS AVHRR L1B Product Processing Facility) Contribute to the procurement of the Data Processing packages for MTG-S mission (PDG-S, IQT-S, SCCDB-S) and to the processes and operational documentation for usage of these tools.


Qualifications

You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience:

University degree in remote sensing or a related subject Understanding of optical remote sensing techniques from space A thorough understanding of the interaction between instrument/platform characteristics and processing impact, including product quality Remote sensing methodologies and techniques, including calibration and Level 1 processing Development of Level 1 data processing systems for large (multi-instrument) operational space programmes Validation of Level 1 data processing systems Standards for data formats, in particular NetCDF-4 or HDF-5 Software engineering, requirements specification, design, testing and integration, ideally to ECSS/ISO standards Software development in C/C++, Python, under UNIX/Linux, build environments, e.g. make, automake, autoconf, RPM Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.


Additional Information

This job is located in

Darmstadt, Germany

If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send your CV (in English and in Word or PDF) to Andrés Izquierdo, by clicking on the button “Apply for this job” quoting job NL-HP- 25156


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