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Next - Ingegneria dei Sistemi S.p.A. is seeking for a Flight Dynamics System Engineer.

Job location
The position is based in Rome. The availability to make occasional National and International travels is required. Short-stays at our customers’ premises, based in Italy, may be required only during specific project phases.

Tasks
The Flight Dynamics System Engineer shall work on multiple projects and assignments, leading all the internal technical activities with an high degree of autonomy during all the subsystem lifecycle, from the specification up to the operations phase. He/She shall support proposal preparation and sales activities, leading, preparing and delivering all the required contributions inherent to the job position.
The applicant shall be able to coordinate or directly execute the following tasks:

• define the Flight Dynamics S/S specification and review upper level requirement allocation and traceability;
• define and update the Flight Dynamics S/S architecture (functional, software and physical), internal and external S/S interfaces, and technical performance;
• prepare the Flight Dynamics S/S development plans, test plans, test procedures;
• design, implement and maintain the Flight Dynamics S/S software;
• define the Flight Dynamics S/S hardware specification;
• execute the Flight Dynamics S/S software installation and configuration on hardware platforms;
• participate in the Flight Dynamics S/S test campaigns;
• execute test and validation activities of the Flight Dynamics S/S;
• provide support to the Flight Dynamics S/S integration in the Ground Segment;
• prepare the documentation of the Flight Dynamics S/S during all the project phases;
• participate and prepare the Flight Dynamics S/S milestones, and provide all the relevant contribution to upper level reviews.

• extensive knowledge in space flight mechanics
• professional experience on Flight Dynamics engineering / operations (no less than 3 years long)
• professional experience on Flight Dynamics software development, test procedures preparation, execution and reporting;

• professional experience with Flight Dynamics software, as FreeFlyer® and Orekit library

• professional experience on Mission Analysis, preferably in Earth Observation domain
• professional experience on Ground Segment system engineering
• professional experience on SAR and Optical Earth Observation missions
• JAVA programming skills, knowledge of Linux OS
• Ph.D. on Space Flight Dynamics topics, preferably in Earth Observation domain

• The applicant shall also possess:
• very good analytical skills
• very good communications and presentation skills
• very good technical writing (generating and delivering) skills
• high level of written and spoken English
• high level of written and spoken Italian is desirable

Activity Description: NEXT is looking for young graduated people with few job experience who will be part of international projects with the aim of developing complex systems in the Defence and Transportation Area:

• Real time Software design and development on embedded systems;
• Software verification activities;
• Provide project’s documentation.

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering;
• Experience in real time software design and development also on embedded systems (RTOS, Linux);
• Solid programming experience in C and C++ Languages, Object Oriented programming and UML formalism;
• Solid knowledge of nets’ protocols;
• Good knowledge of Configuration Management and Configuration Management tools (SVN, GIT);
• Good knowledge of Software lifecycle (Requirements management, Engineering, Development, Verification and Validation);
• Microcontrollers;
• Good knowledge of written and spoken English language.

• C++ Standard Libraries, OO Patterns, Qt framework;
• Requirements management and engineering tools (DOORS, Rhapsody);
• Tests’ tools (Parasoft, Vectorcast);
• Radar technologies;
• Naval Systems;
• Railway Systems (Signalling, switch, etc.);
• MIL-STD-498, DO-178C Standards;
• ARINC 653, ARINC 661 Protocols.

Activity Description: NEXT wants to employ young graduated personnel with few job experience in Rome offices. They will be part of projects leading to complex systems development in the Defence Area. Main Activities:

• Software analysis, engineering and development;
• Software Verification engineering;
• Provide project’s documentation.

• FPGA architectural design;
• Implementation and simulation of complex digital circuits in vhdl and/or verilog;
• Testbench skills for regression test;
• Knowledge of axi aurora PCI express protocols;
• Knowledge of Xilinx ISE, Xilinx ultrascale, Vivado, Chipscope tools;
• Timing clousure analysis;
• FPGS and external devices interfacing.