Overview
Thales Alenia Space in Italy is a leader in the specification, design, development, validation and delivery of the On-board Software (OBSW) for various spacecraft (low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit, geostationary, science/exploration).
The OBSW product provides part of the Spacecraft on-board functions: operational mode management, thermal control, electrical power, units and subsystems management, standard Packet Utilization Services (PUS), basic HW resources management and satellite mass memory management.
Key duties
- Support to the production of the OBSW Requirements Baseline (RB).
- Production of the OBSW Technical Specification (TS).
- Design of the OBSW.
- Unit/integration test of the OBSW.
- Validation test against TS with the support of proper test equipment facilities and simulation models.
- Support to validation against RB
You will interface the customer and suppliers and you will cooperate with other Thales departments including project managers, industrial engineering, manufacturing and marketing & sales.
Skills, experience and qualifications required
- Master degree in Computer Science or equivalent background.
- Knowledge of the ECSS-E-ST-40C and ECSS-Q-ST-80C standards from ESA.
- Knowledge of multi-core processors and hypervisors (preferably PikeOS, XtratuM).
- Experience in designing, developing and debugging hard real-time software applications is preferred.
- Experience in programming with the C and/or Ada 95 language.
- Experience in the software requirements management.
- Knowledge of Unified Modeling Language (UML) for the software design management, preferably usage of Rhapsody for C/Ada
- Knowledge of software quality metrics monitoring, with experience in using Logiscope and Understand for C/Ada (or equivalent tools)
- Organized and methodical approach to the work, with strong communication skills.
- Ability to work both autonomously and in a team.
- Strong attitude to achieve results within time and cost constraints.
- Problem solving attitude.
- Good knowledge of English in writing and speaking.
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