Beschreibung
TASKS:
The Pipeline Systems Department of our clients Software Development Division is developing the VLT and VLTI data reduction pipelines for the operational instruments at La Silla Paranal observatory. The data reduction pipelines are used in two operational environments, by the Clients Data Flow Operations at Garching, and by the Paranal Science Operations (PSO), for the quick-look assessment of data, the health-monitoring of instruments and detectors, the generation of master calibration data, the reduction of scientific exposures, and data quality control. The work involves the preparation of data reduction procedures for the Clients VLT pipelines, and the implementation of these parts in ANSI-C with the Clients-CPL library, as well as the development of Reflex scientific workflows
NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE:
Education
University degree in Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
The ideal consultant is a software engineer with minimum 3 years experience in developing astronomical data reduction applications in ANSI-C, as well as a good working knowledge of the Scripting languages Python and Perl
The consultant shall be familiar with modern software engineering practices and tools, including CVS, SVN, GNU autotools, as well as unit and regression testing
He or she will be able to support in any maintenance and development effort, contributing to the entire software life cycle, from analysis to design, coding, documentation and testing, to deployment and maintenance
The consultant will be given responsibility over data reduction pipelines and interact with the instrument scientists at the operational sites for the specification of data reduction procedures; in collaboration with the head of department and with the Clients SDD team
he or she will be able to operate independently and meet the agreed deadlines
The consultant is required to have a good knowledge of image and signal processing methods in astronomy, as well as statistical handling of scientific data; knowledge of observational techniques in astrophysics (imaging, adaptive optics, spectroscopy) will be an asset
He or she has excellent command of the English language, very good oral and written communication skills and flexibility; customer orientation, familiarity with international projects and a strong sense for quality development are also essential
ATTENTION:
START - DATE IS 1st JUNE 2012