ESA/VN-ESTEC(2010)025
Paris, 24 March 2010
(English only)
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
Vacancy in the Directorate of Technical and Quality Management
The European Space Agency is an equal opportunity employer
and encourages applications from women
POST
Software Engineer in the Software Systems Engineering Section of the
Software Systems Division, Systems, Software and Technology Department,
Directorate of Technical and Quality Management.
This post is classified in the A2/A4 grade band of the Coordinated
Organisations’ salary scale.
LOCATION
ESTEC, Noordwijk (The Netherlands).
DUTIES
The postholder will report to the Head of the Software Engineering and
Standardisation Section
The duties of this post will include:
providing specialised functional support to ESA projects within the real-
time software systems domain, including flight and ground software;
participating in the evaluation of industrial proposals and in project
reviews, regarding software aspects;
management of R&D contracts and, on behalf of ESA projects, technical
monitoring of software development contracts;
supporting the development of methodology for space system design with
complex software tasks, with emphasis on system-software co-engineering
and end-to-end aspects;
support to the Avionics System Group in the definition of onboard avionics
concepts and architectures, including highly integrated and reconfigurable
systems;
liaising with other ESA Divisions in order to ensure a consolidated,
coherent and effective approach to embedded software in all the affected
disciplines;
participating in the definition and execution of the research programmes of
the Division, in particular in the areas of modern tools and methods to
improve the development and qualification process of embedded software;
contributing to the standardisation effort in the software engineering
domain.
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