Beschreibung
Work Description:
Development and Maintenance of VLT Pipelines.
(full description on request)
Education:
University degree in Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
Mandatory:
The ideal consultant is a software engineer with:
minimum 3 years experience in developing scientific data processing applications in ANSI-C and C++
good knowledge of processing and statistical handling of scientific data
experience in a Unix/Linux environment.
ability to participate in any of the maintenance and development
efforts in support of the clients team, contributing to the entire
software life cycle, from analysis to design, coding,
documentation and testing, to deployment and maintenance
experience in software development tools (version control, development environments, debuggers, profilers)
excellent command of the English language, very good communication skills.
ability to interact with the instrument scientists at the operational sites for the specification of
data reduction procedures
ability to operate, in collaboration with clients team and the
responsible of the activity. independently and meet the agreed deadlines.
Desirable:
Excellent knowledge of image and signal processing methods;
Excellent knowledge of Web technologies and frameworks;
Good knowledge of the Python programming language;
Knowledge of astronomical instrumentation and observational techniques in astrophysics
(imaging, adaptive optics, spectroscopy) and the related data reduction methods
Experience with multi-threaded programming