Junior Atmospheric Remote Sensing Scientist - Frascati, Italia - Serco Europe

Serco Europe

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Frascati, Italia

3 settimane fa

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Piero Bianchi

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Job Introduction
At Serco, we strive to promote and enable the diversity, development, wellbeing and safety of our people.

We understand that healthier, happier employees go hand-in-hand with strong business performance, enhanced productivity and better outcomes for those we serve.

We want everybody who works for Serco to have a positive experience and access to opportunities to develop in their chosen careers.

Dedicated to the European Space Agency's Earth-observing activities, ESA-ESRIN is the European centre of excellence for exploitation of Earth observation missions.

The mission and payload operations of ESA's Earth observation satellites are managed here, and ESRIN is the primary source for the acquisition, distribution, and exploitation of data from these and other non-ESA satellites.

Serco Italy has a long history of providing Earth Observation operations, maintenance and front-end services to ESA.

To provide continual service improvement, Serco has recently introduced a special focus on evolution and innovation, with the aim of supporting ESA in further evolving the services and products.

Does working in a Serco environment sound appealing to you?

We would love to hear from you and your interest in the new opportunity of
Junior Atmospheric Remote Sensing Scientist in Frascati

We are seeking a bright, post-doc-like scientist with some experience to join the Quality Control Ecosystem team supporting the activities in the frame of the Quality Assurance for Earth Observation (QA4EO) ESA project and other national and international Earth Observation Quality Control and R&D projects.

The post-holder will develop new tools and methods for the quality assessment of satellite-based atmospheric products and maintain the existing ones.

The post-holder will perform calibration/validation activities on satellite-based atmospheric products by exploiting ground
- and satellite-based concurrent products.

Main Responsibilities
Are you looking to secure a career in a public sector environment? We would love to hear from you

As
Junior Atmospheric Remote Sensing Scientist you will be responsible for:

The Scientist will perform the following activities under the direction and guidance of the Work Package leader and Area Manager:
Develop new tools and maintain the already existing ones for the handling of current and past atmospheric satellite mission data;
Develop tools and methods for the quality assessment of satellite products against collocated ground

- and satellite-based products of similar type;

Perform data Quality Control and Cal/Val activities for national and international space agencies in the atmospheric chemistry and physics domain;
Support data reprocessing of atmospheric missions from national and international space agencies in the atmospheric chemistry and physics domain;
Contribute to the writing of scientific papers and technical reports and preparation of scientific presentations at international conferences/workshops;
Attendance at project progress meetings or workshops/conferences.

In return, we offer a friendly, supportive and professional environment that respects your work/life balance and ultimately contributes to the delivery of public services in Italy and around the world.

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES:

Mandatory requisites are:

Good experience in handling and analysing EO data;
Good scientific programming skills (e.g. Python, IDL, R, Fortran);
Good oral and written communication;
Experience in scientific publication and reporting (including oral presentations) of results;
Good working proficiency in English.
Attitude to follow guidelines and to require minimum supervision, proactively requesting help when needed
Ability to plan and report activities and to work to deadlines.
Availability to travel to attend meetings.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Applicants should have high self-motivation, the capability to work effectively in a team and autonomously, and excellent organizational skills. A solid, proactive attitude is required in identifying problems and proposing solutions.

Mandatory knowledge and experience requisites are:

University degree, or equivalent, in physics, chemistry, engineering or mathematics.
Sound knowledge of retrieval algorithms and their implementation
Sound knowledge of methods for quality control and calibration/validation of satellitebased atmospheric products
Sound knowledge of atmospheric dynamics and physics
Capability to develop tools for the handling and analysis of large sets of data

Additional assets:

Experience with past or current Atmospheric Earth Observation Satellite mission data;
Experience in the field of atmospheric physics and remote sensing (list of publications);
Experience in Calibration/Validation projects or activities.
Experience in atmospheric dynamics and chemistry modelling
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