About this job

We are recruiting a Software PA Support Engineer for Sapienza to work on our Customers Site (ESA-ESTEC) reporting to the Head of the Software Product Assurance within the TEC Directorate.

Responsibilities

Support tasks including the following:

• Contribute to the establishing of the programmatic and technical software PA requirements within the framework of the ESA Software policy
• Evaluate Contractors’ plans, technical specifications and efforts proposed for the execution of the S/W PA programme
• Monitor and evaluate S/W PA analyses, reports and technical notes
• Participate to project reviews, meetings, Configuration Control Boards, Non-conformance Review Boards and Software Review Boards
• Prepare design trade-offs, analyses and reports using metrics to support project decisions
• Participate to software product evaluations and process assessments
• Establish and maintain databases to track NCRs, RFWs, action items etc. as required

Profile

• Master’s degree in software engineering or computer science with background on space engineering
• Relevant professional work experience
• Familiarity with space product assurance practices together with a good working knowledge of appropriate working tools
• Practical experience in applying ECSS S/W standards
• Knowledge and proven experience in the following areas:
  • Configuration management of complex systems
  • Software engineering and PA in critical applications
• Experience on (or knowledge of) the following areas would be considered as an asset for this position:
  • Agile practices (e.g. Scrum Master / Product Owner, other Agile frameworks as SAFE, Lean or Kanban)
  • Quality assurance for Machine Learning models
  • Big Data software architectures and life-cycles
  • Data quality assurance
  • Cyber-security assurance, security evaluation and certification, ISO-27001
  • Hands-on experience with static code analysis and tools
  • Alternative software development life-cycles, continuous integration and tools
• Fluent in English; knowledge of another ESA member-state language is an asset

Contact:

Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU

Please send your CV (in English) as soon as possible, but no later than 23/10/2020 to jobs@sapienzaconsulting.com

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