Emplois user experience researcher (Louvain)

Remote Sensing Scientist– Atmosphere Products

EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency - monitoring the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The Remote Sensing and Products (RSP) Division is tasked with providing the scientific expertise required to develop, implement, validate, maintain and evolve the operational observational products for all EUMETSAT satellites and agreed third party missions, as well as establishing the user requirements for future EUMETSAT and Copernicus satellite programmes.

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission is a European satellite designed for the monitoring of the Earth's oceans, lands, ice, and atmosphere. EUMETSAT operates these satellites on behalf of the European Commission, in close cooperation with ESA. EUMETSAT is also responsible for processing and distributing the marine data and near-real-time (NRT) atmosphere products, including two operational NRT aerosols and fires products. New products such as cloud mask, cloud properties, dust, aerosol layer height, or water vapour content, are also being developed and will be implemented operationally in the next years.

Within the Clouds and Aerosols Competence Area (ClA-CA) of the Remote Sensing and Products Division (RSP), the Remote Sensing Scientist –Atmosphere Products will work on the retrieval of atmospheric parameters from Sentinel-3 optical observations.

What you’ll be doing

· Acquire and maintain an in depth understanding of the atmosphere products, as well as their performances, derived from the Sentinel-3 instruments;

· Support the definition, development, prototyping and validation of new or enhanced atmosphere NRT operational products from OLCI and SLSTR instruments, including in a synergistic approach;

· Provide scientific and technical expertise on the processing and analysis of Sentinel-3 atmosphere product and inversion of atmospheric physical parameters in support of environment monitoring, forecasting applications, and climate applications;

· Contribute to the validation and monitoring of Sentinel-3 atmosphere products in collaboration with mission partners as well as the scientific and user communities;

· Based on interactions with the scientific and user communities, contribute to the advancement of the understanding of innovative measurements of atmosphere products and to the preparation and development of their NRT applications;

· Support interactions with mission and international partners such as Copernicus Atmospheric, Climate, and Emergency services, as well as the atmospheric sciences communities.

What we offer

· Excellent salary, of up to Euro 7,500 / month NET (after tax) based on skills and experience

· Flexible working time including additional flexi-leave

· Private medical coverage for employee and family

· Attractive final salary pension

· 30 days of annual leave + 14.5 days public holidays

· Training and development support

· Relocation allowance and support (if applicable)

Requirements

Qualifications

Advanced university degree (or equivalent experience) in remote sensing, physics or other related degree.

Skills and Experience:

· Knowledge of the most relevant optical imagery missions for the observation of aerosol, cloud, water vapour and fire, their products, applications and user communities;

· Demonstrated expertise in the physics of optical remote sensing of atmosphere products from the EUMETSAT and/or Copernicus portolio, and their validation;

· Understanding of the functioning, operation, and data processing of products derived from optical imagery missions. Experience with NRT processing or Level-2 retrieval would be an asset;

· Demonstrable experience in developing scientific applications software in Python and C in UNIX environment. Experience with operational data processing software would be an advantage;

· Demonstrable experience with scientific development projects and working with user communities and researchers;

· Strengths in analysis, synthesis and presentation;

· Good interpersonal skills with a proven ability to apply these to the interactions within a team and between teams.

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH. WE WILL BE UNABLE TO CONSIDER APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED IN OTHER LANGUAGES.

EUMETSAT is an international organisation employing staff from across all 30 member states and this role is being advertised on multiple international job boards, but please note that this role would be based in Darmstadt, Germany and would require international applicants to relocate if successful.

More about us

EUMETSAT’s role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.

EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.

As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT can recruit nationals only from the 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom).

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to €7.500,00 per month

Work Location: On the road