Senior Simulation Engineer
| Job Type | Contract |
| Area | Oxfordshire, London and the Home Counties |
| Sector | Space |
| Start Date | |
| Telephone | 01959 562 572 |
| Job Ref | 34765 |
| Job Views | 212 |
- Description
Senior Simulation Engineer
Alexander Associates are working with an innovative, rapidly growing company within the space sector who are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Simulation Engineer to join their team in Oxfordshire.
The successful candidate will simulate satellites in the toughest conditions.
Responsibilities of the Senior Simulation Engineer:
- Design, development, integration, validation, deployment and ongoing maintenance of spacecraft simulation software
- Provide technical expertise as Subject Matter Expert regarding simulator development
- Develop and integrate spacecraft simulation software based on client’s requirements
- Validate, configure, and deploy simulation software
- Develop scripts based on the client’s operational scenarios
- Perform maintenance activities on simulators to ensure highest availability to users
- Support in writing standard Operational procedures to the Operations team
- Write start-up scripts to configure the simulators as required for the different operational configurations
Senior Simulation Engineer essential skills:
- University degree in Computer Science, Electronics, or other STEM discipline
- Minimum 5+ years of space industry experience in modelling and simulation of digital electronics (processors, memory, FPGA) and interfaces/buses (CANBus, RS422, RS485, SpaceWire)
- Minimum 5+ years of industry experience in software development using C/C++ , real-time software development, preferably using modelling and simulation technologies
- Experience with SMP2 and SIMULUS Suite and/or other spacecraft simulation frameworks
- Experience with an emulation suite, preferably ESOC Emulator Suite or TEMU
- Experience in debugging and validating spacecraft onboard data handling subsystem
- Experience in debugging, profiling on Linux
- Sound knowledge of modern C++ (C++14)
- Object oriented design using UML, design patterns
- Experience with unit testing
Are you a dedicated Senior Simulation Engineer seeking your next mission? Apply today!
