Job Description

Welcome to SSC Space (formerly Swedish Space Corporation), the perfect workplace for those passionate about technology in general and space in particular.

With space organizations, research institutes, institutional and commercial actors as customers, we offer specialist expertise in satellite communications, space consulting services, rocket and balloon systems, flight test services, satellite propulsion systems, and much more.

SSC Space also has one of the world’s largest global networks of ground stations for satellite communications. We own and operate the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, northern Sweden, with the aim of launching satellites in the near future.

Are you fueled by a passion for people and the ambition to create an awesome workplace? Are you ready to embark on an exciting journey with us to help earth benefit from space?

If you answer yes to these questions, we invite you to seize the opportunity to make a significant impact. We are looking for a dedicated professional who shares our core values of Customer passion, Care, Collaboration, Curiosity, and Courage.

Ariel is the first space mission dedicated to measuring the chemical composition and thermal structures of a large well constructed sample of transiting and eclipsing exoplanets, enabling planetary science far beyond the boundaries of the Solar System.

The Ariel science operations center has recently completed a requirements review and is in the phase of designing and prototyping the software subsystems and understanding how to integrate software from the scientific consortium.

Responsibilities

The Gaia DPAC Software Engineer will provide a service to support the following main activities:

• Work within the group with responsibility for overall system architecture and main database in Gaia.
• Maintain and support the integration of software changes from consortium scientists and engineers.
• Maintain front-end UIs used to support data, data model management and other activities in the consortium.
• Maintain and update software used in the main database, including that used to integrate and consolidate the scientific data products.
• Interact with members of the SOC and scientific consortium to identify requirements and software change requests.
• Specify testing and operations activities and support the operations engineer in software validation, optimisation and operations.

For Ariel, a future mission, which is anticipated to utilise Java:

• Contribute to the design of the software architecture in the Ariel SOC.
• Support the development and integration of the uplink subsystems.
• Interact with technical developers in the consortium to support the successful integration of consortium-provided scientific software.
• Provide support for the definition of the subsystem use cases and software requirements.

Requirements

• Master's degree in relevant disciplines.

• Experience working with large volumes of data (100s of TB).

• Experience working with complex scientific pipelines

• Experience in defining software requirements and test cases

• Knowledge of and practical experience with managing relational database management systems serving TB-scale datasets, specifically knowledge of PostgreSQL

• Experience in working with large astronomical data sets

• Experience working in an international environment

• You must be able to work in English

• Excellent communication skills - notably in interfacing with different stakeholders with diverse backgrounds (for example Scientists).

• Knowledge and software engineering experience in Python would also be useful.

• Knowledge of ESA missions is an advantage.

• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS and Javascript and toolkits such as Angular, for development of the data mining front-end, is an asset.

• Knowledge of Jupyter Notebook, Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Hub frameworks, their APIs and kernels.

Legal and Security Requirements

• All applicants must be legally allowed to work in Spain without the need to obtain a work visa. Only European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) and SWISS citizens can be employed by SSC Space in Netherland.
• Applicants are required to provide a copy of their passport and degree certificate. SSC Space Netherlands B.V. will validate the Degree with the issuing University and provide evidence to ESA.
• In line with ESA’s security requirements, prior to issuing a letter of employment the applicant shall provide to SSC Space Netherlands B.V. a recent official document declaring that they are of good conduct from the country where currently resident, and SSC Space Netherlands B.V. will validate your employment history.

Benefits

• The selected candidate will receive a competitive remuneration.
• When autonomous then teleworking can often be utilised.
• Will be registered for both social security and tax in Spain.
• The standard working hours are 40 per week.
• There are 12 public holidays and an additional 30 annual days holiday.
• Training to improve efficiency and provide strength for future career are of course included.

To be considered for this Position
Prior to 2026-09-11, please apply via our Job Application form
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Outro

SSC Space is a leading global provider of advanced space services, with more than 50 years of experience. We help space organizations, research institutes, commercial and institutional actors from all over the world to get access to space.

With local presence on all continents and about 750 committed employees, we offer specialist expertise in satellite communications and satellite control services, spacecraft operations, rocket and balloon systems, launch services and flight test services, as well as engineering, operations and consultancy services for space missions.

We help Earth benefit from space. Learn more at sscspace.com