Scientific Projects Exploitation
2 settimane fa
We’re looking for a Scientific Projects Exploitation to reinforce the team in our Italy office
We look forward to meeting you
Main ResponsibilitiesAs a Scientific Projects Exploitation, you will be responsible
Within the ESA Sensors Performance, Products and Algorithms (SPPA) Section the post-holder will be included in the Swarm Data Innovation and Science Cluster (DISC) contractual framework.
The post-holder will be supporting the data quality assessment of the Swarm different instruments, taken from a subset of: magnetic field instruments, composed by an Absolute Scalar Magnetometer (ASM) and a Vector Field Magnetometer (VFM) and Electric Field Instrument (EFI), composed by a Thermal Ion Imager (TII) and two Langmuir Probes (LP) and of Swarm higher level products, e.g., Swarm Level 2 Cat-2 products.
The required expertise shall be related to :
- Knowledge of Swarm algorithms and theory underneath the processing of data.
The main activities will be :
1) Performing product quality monitoring activities and provide Mission sensors technical support:
- Operations of the Quality Control (QC) tools for systematic and on-request product quality analysis and reporting.
- Define improvements of the QC tools as needed.
- Support in the QC tools software verification and validation.
- Support the Swarm Instruments Performance and Product Quality Expert on data anomaly investigations and resolution.
- Weekly/Cyclic Reports compilation.
- Support to data reprocessing campaigns: dataset definition, analysis of reprocessed data.
- Development of ad-hoc data analysis routines if needed.
2) Support to Instrument Processing Facilities (IPF) operations, including:
- Software maintenance and evolutions verification (plan definition, execution and reporting),
- Anomaly investigation
- Support to IPF integration into reference and operational platforms
- Software configuration tuning
- Participate to technical coordination meetings (PDGS, DISC)
3) If needed, support interfacing with:
- External entities and other ESA interfaces (PDGS, PLSO, FOS), to other entities inside DISC, for general end users requests via ESA Earth Observation Help Desk.
4) Prepare scientific documentation / posters for workshops or conferences as agreed within the DISC and with ESA.
5) Support the preparation of periodic service reports on the activities performed
Successful CandidateYour skills:
Mandatory requisites are:
- Strong teaming attitude
- Very good interfacing capabilities towards external interfaces: customer, scientific and technical
- Proactive approach to problem identification and resolution.
- Ability to plan and report on proposed problem solutions and to work to deadline.
- Candidates should be fluent in English and have good writing and communication skills.
- Availability to travel to attend meetings.
- Programming skills: Phyton or Mat Lab preferentially, other programming languages and scripting (Linux) for data manipulation / analysis automation purposes.
In addition, the candidate shall have:
- Attitude to follow guidelines and to require minimum supervision, proactively requesting help when needed
- Ability to plan and report and to work to deadline.
- Ability to follow different concurrent activities
- Attitude to be propositive in suggesting new opportunities of research or solutions leading to scientific improvements of satellite data quality
Knowledge and Experience
- Applicants should have a high level of self-motivation, the capability to work effectively in a team and autonomously, and have excellent organisation skills.
- A strong proactive attitude is required in identifying problems and proposing solutions.
Mandatory knowledge and experience requisites are:
- University degree, or equivalent, in physics or engineering or a related discipline.
- Basic knowledge of Earth's ionosphere, magnetosphere, geomagnetic field
- Experience in satellite data processing & handling;
- Development of utilities for supporting the analysis of large set of data and data visualization
Other skills/ knowledge and experience
- Previous experience with Swarm mission and/or data is considered an important asset
- Exposure to AI/Machine Learning considered a valuable asset
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We believe in equity so we strongly encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job are encouraged to apply and demonstrate their abilities in an interview. We also welcome a conversation about any adjustments that would make the interview process more accessible for you. Wherever possible we are open to discussions around flexible working and we operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas.
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