EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency. Its role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.
EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.
As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT has 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.)
EUMETSAT is now inviting well qualified candidates from its Member States to apply for the following post:
We are looking for someone to join us as a Software and Data Formats Engineer.
This is an attractive opportunity offering variety and scope for development. In this role you will provide engineering support to data formatting services both for EUMETSAT’s satellite systems as well as satellites operated by other agencies and regional data retransmission services.
You will be responsible for developing and maintaining state of the art knowledge related to data formats and you will be the internal point of contact in this area for other departments within the organisation. You will have the opportunity to actively contribute in the evolution of community standard data formats, specifically netCDF and HDF, with occasional travel to the US to attend symposiums on the subject.
To be successful you should have a relevant degree (or equivalent) , as well as experience in each of the following areas:
Please apply with your CV and cover letter by the 'apply' button below
All applicants must be EUMETSAT member state nationals with a good working knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written. Knowledge of French would be considered advantageous.
Job ref VN 16/47
Education Backgrounds: |
Aerospace Engineering Physics Software Engineering |
Specialties: |
Aerospace Application Development Image processing Programming Testing |
Education Level: |
Undergraduate (Bachelors) Postgraduate (Masters) |
Experience: |
10 - 15 years 2 - 5 years 5 - 10 Years |
Languages spoken: |
English |
Job Location: | Darmstadt, Germany |
Keywords: | eumetsat, meteorology, meteorological, C, C++, UNIC, Software, data, engineer, formats, WMO formats, BUFR, GRIB, netCDF, HDF, UNIX, satalite, aerospace engineering, aerospace, physics, software engineer, |
Type: Job
Deadline: 24th December 2016
Job reference (ID): 11027
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