| Job offer: Cassini Saturn mission [message #2072] |
Fri, 20 May 1994 07:10 |
squyres
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Well, the strong consensus of the email I received was that it was okay to
post an IDL-specific job ad here, and a number of people asked to see it.
So here it is...
Greetings: Our department here at Cornell University is searching for a
software engineer to generate mission planning software for NASA's Cassini
mission to Saturn. A job description appears below. If interested in this
position, please send a resume and detailed description of past experience to
Steve Squyres, associate professor of Astronomy at Cornell:
Email: squyres@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu
Fax: 607-255-5907
Phone: 607-255-3508
Snail mail: Space Sciences Bldg.
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Design, write, test and document upgrades to software that will be used for
planning remote-sensing observations by UV, optical, IR, and radio instruments
on the joint NASA/ESA Cassini mission to Saturn, scheduled for launch in 1997.
The software will become the principle planning tool for scientists on at
least four instrument teams at several institutions, requiring considerable
flexibility and partability. Applications include the creation of observation
designs from single images to complex mosaics, corrections for target and
spacecraft motion, saving and retrieving previous designs, optimization of
observations, and providing interfaces for externally supplied routines. The
existing software is written in IDL, with subroutines in Fortran and C, and
runs on UNIX workstations. A software engineer with programming experience in
IDL (including widgets) and C, and familiarity with UNIX, X-windows, and color
graphics is required for an initial period of 12 months, starting in summer
1994. Work may continue beyond this period, contingent on continuation of
Cassini project funding. Work will include consultations with programmers and
engineers in Colorado and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
Location is the Cornell University campus in Ithaca New York, in the heart of
the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.
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