Junior Grad Spacecraft SW Engineer - Real time, C, ADA OOD - Bristol
- Location:
- Bristol jobs
,
Avon jobs
- Salary:
- £21K to c £30K+ pension, life,health,+relocation
- Company:
- Emponics
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 20/11/2009 17:26
- Job id:
- 46001740
- Contact:
- Tony Hockey
- Ref:
- Totaljobs/0712
Our client based in in the South West with offices in Bristol is a leading developer of ICT services, e-Business and advanced technology solutions. The company operates in a broad spectrum of market sectors. They are currently looking to recruit a number of technical staff based in the UK. We are committed to the recruitment and continued career development of high quality staff and offer competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package which demonstrates the value we attach to our staff. We also assist with relocation.
These include private healthcare, a company pension scheme, life insurance, a company share purchase scheme and an income protection scheme.
We operate under flexible working arrangements, where appropriate and will provide relocation assistance when required.
Salaries reflect capability and experience and you will find them to be highly competitive.
It is essential that any candidates submitted for this sofware engineer role can demonstrate that they are pro-active self starters who will be able to able to get up to speed straight away with the minimum of supervision. Please note you need to be able to get Security Clearance for these roles ie be a British Citizen or have worked here for 5 years or more.
Tasks:
The OBSW group require a hardworking and enthusiastic engineer who will be responsible for developing spacecraft on-board software across a number of ESA missions.This will generally involve: -
·On-board software development and validation support, including analysis, design, test, validation and maintenance of satellite flight software embedded in spacecraft platform and payload systems.
·Development of software validation facilities to support test and validation of on-board software in flight representative simulated environment.
Essential skills:
The ideal candidate must have a good ( 2.1 or above ) engineering, computer science or scientific degree. You really need some sort of Space background or bias .
Specific knowledge is required in:
- Real-time software systems and software engineering
- Modern software engineering methods and tools
Significant work experience is required in:
- Programming languages C, ADA and potentially Java
- Object Oriented design methods
- Embedded systems and development
- Real-time operating systems
Desirable skills:
·SPARC microprocessors
·UNIX based systems
·Communication systems protocols
·ESA space programmes and applications
·Simulation of spacecraft systems
·Software development standards (preferably ESA ECSS-E40)
·Military standard MIL-BUS 1553
Any other information e.g. dual location, special security clearance, foreign languages:
·Eligible to work in the UK
·Able to obtain security clearance
Site
·Bristol
Grade
·1-5 (£21-£35K)
Proposed Start Date
