Space Debris Software Engineer Job in Darmstadt , Germany

Telespazio VEGA Deutschland is a well-established consulting, technology and engineering services business. Over the past 30 years, we have built up a first-class reputation in high-technology markets, where quality and reliability are essential. Our roots are in the Space market and the experience we have developed there brings benefits to our other core markets of Aviation and Defence.

Telespazio VEGA Deutschland was created in early September 2012 when Telespazio Deutschland and VEGA Space GmbH merged into one company. These changes were made in order to serve the needs of our markets better and provide more integrated services to our clients worldwide.

Space Debris Software Engineer Job Description

This is an opportunity for 1 experienced engineer to work in the domain of the ESA Space Debris Office
(SDO). The position is based in ESOC, in Darmstadt with a start from 01.01.2017. Deadline for
submission is 15 th of November 2016.

ESA’s commitment to Space Debris Mitigation includes, among others, the software tool suite to
validate adherence to mitigation requirements DRAMA (Debris Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Analysis), a database in support of space situational awareness and collision avoidance DISCOS
(Database and Information System Characterising Objects in Space), and various websites serving as
interfaces to the above mentioned software services.

Responsibilities/Duties

• Unit and accepting testing of new and existing software
• Integration and verification of software services, both in development and operationally
• Implementing quality assurance and maintenance of the existing and future software services
• Data management and processing for existing and future software services.
• Acting as an interface for the SDO and ESA internal and external customers vis-à-vis software issues
• Design and implementation of roadmaps for the software services under its quality assurance and maintenance responsibility based on feedback from the end-users and taking into account separate developments and research within the SDO 
• Work in international teams

Space Debris Software Engineer Job Requirements

Qualifications/Experience

• Completed university degree in mathematics, physics, engineering or equivalent with high grades
• Fluency in English, both in speech and writing

• Space debris, celestial mechanics, and related data processing
• Testing, integration and validation of large software systems and services
• Software engineering aspects (agile development, from scratch development, maintenance, testing, redundancy concepts, version control)
• Requirements engineering as well as documentation skills
• The PC/Linux and PC/Windows environment, network services and protocols
• Web-based database front-ends
• Shell scripting languages, Python, Fortran, and (non-)relational databases (Postgresql)
• Quality assurance

• Familiarity with the ESOC environment
• Familiarity/experience with Space Debris engineering tasks, including user experience for DISCOS and DRAMA
• Version control systems (git)
• Issue trackers (redmine).
• Apple/MAC environment, network services and protocols
• C and/or C++, Perl, Oracle-DB, Java, and JavaScript

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