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Science Application Developer, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
The Cluster Active Archive (CAA), located at ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, seeks candidates for a Science Application Developer position. The initial contract covers a period of three years starting as soon as possible.
The CAA (http://caa.estec.esa.int/) contains processed and validated high-resolution scientific data, as well as raw data, processing software, calibration data and documentation from all eleven Cluster instruments (http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=8). All the data will be accessed via a WWW-based mechanism. A small team, led by a CAA Project Scientist and a Technical Manager will conduct the programme.
The contractor will be involved in the ongoing development of the CAA software with particular emphasis on the development of value-added capabilities of the system to provide specialised data search, manipulation and visualisation capabilities. The contractor will be responsible for the design, development and/or update of these tools, in particular
- Data visualisation: The Cluster data consist of time series and other products ranging in complexity from simple scalar parameters, through vectors to complex multi dimensional arrays and tensors. Both pre- generated and on-demanding plotting capabilities will need to be developed in order to allow users to visualise and select periods of interest prior to download of the data.
- Data manipulation and search: Various science data manipulation tools (coordinate transformation, time series join, and arbitrary arithmetic) will need to be developed and incorporated into the WWW front end. A related activity is the development of advanced search capabilities that allow users to make requests based on the contents of the data.
- CAAtools: Maintenance and ongoing development of the existing set of tools (written in C) developed for data verification, sub-setting and concatenation.
Ideally, the encumbent should have a good working knowledge of English and have experience working in a small development team - a science background, particularly in a space physics related field and some knowledge of the Cluster mission, would be valuable. S/He should have experience of science application and data manipulation tool development in C and Perl within a Linux environment and be conversant with other scientific programming languages such as Fortran. Experience with development of data visualisation applications using the Interactive Data Language (IDL) would be an advantage.
The contractor will be hired through a local company, and competitive salary will be commensurate with experience. Interested individuals should contact the CAA Project Scientist, Dr. Harri Laakso, e-mail: Harri.Laakso@esa.int.
-- Revised 30 Nov 2005 by emery@ucar.edu
