Software Systems Engineer

Software Systems Engineer
Location: Bristol
Salary: Negotiable dependant on experience

The company provides professional engineering and consultancy services to spacecraft operators and spacecraft primes. Our team is composed of university graduates and experienced professionals, comprising some of the most knowledgeable, dedicated and talented engineers across Europe. Our services cover the whole life cycle of space programmes from early concepts to operations.

Our Space Division provides a dynamic, supportive and friendly atmosphere in which you are encouraged to lead with initiative. We support new ideas from our colleagues and are focused on supporting space programmes and missions. We have a strong presence at ESOC and EUMETSAT, as well as serving other ESA sites, the German Space Operations Centre and the Galileo Control Centre. Moreover, we actively manage your professional development, training and career progression.

Tasks:
The Space Division seeks a versatile, knowledgeable and experienced senior software or systems engineer for its spacecraft ground segment activities. The successful candidate will become part of our successful Ground Segment operations group with the responsibility for supporting the overall specification, design, deployment and acceptance of spacecraft ground software systems. The first assignment involves performing a customer facing onsite role for the Galileo mission and will interface with all levels of the project from the end customers, users and sub-contractors. The role is strategically important for the company' business and will allow the successful candidate to progress their career within the company.

The role involves:

* Taking responsibility for key elements of the system, implemented and delivered by a sub-contractor
* Maintaining the requirements baseline for those elements
* Ensuring design and implementation meet the requirements
* Analysis/preparation of change requests and processing of sub-contractor change responses
* Review of documentation (datapacks) including, design, test plans, test reports, user manuals etc.
* Attendance of acceptance campaigns both at the sub-contractor site and end user sites
* Analysis and disposition of Software Problem Reports
* Technical support to provide input to customer documentation/datapacks
* Interfacing with the customer and users to discuss problems and changes as needed
* Travel to the customer site or other company offices as required to assist with workshops, testing or providing support.
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Essential skills:

* The successful candidate will have a software engineering background and be able to demonstrate a thorough systems engineering approach from requirements through design and verification of delivered and accepted systems.

* The project standards must be adhered to and therefore an understanding of good software standards are required and an ability to work within project guidelines.

* The role will be customer facing, so the candidate must be fluent in English and confident in their role representing the company and interfacing with the customer and operators.

Desirable skills:

* Software engineering background on large scale/complex projects
* Experienced in software/system design including architecture and interface design
* Experience in requirements specification and management
* Experience with formal verification processes
* Understanding of Product Assurance and adherence to project standards
* Linux systems

Having prior experience of the Galileo mission is not a pre-requisite for this position but can be an advantage.

Any other information e.g. special security clearance, foreign languages:

* Eligible to work in the UK
* Security Clearance may be required
* Willing to travel to site

Base office - Bristol

When applying for this role, your details will be entered into a database for sole use by the company.

The company offers a comprehensive range of benefits including pension, life assurance and private healthcare.

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