Copernicus Data Processing & Maintenance Engineer (Earth Observation)

Location: Darmstadt, Germany

Company

CS GROUP, together with HE Space and Sopra Steria, provides digital end-to-end systems and engineering services for space and defence organisations, with a focus on information technology and space data engineering.

What you will do

• Develop, implement, and maintain operational scientific data algorithms and product-processing software for deriving geophysical parameters from remote-sensing data.
• Develop product-quality monitoring software, automated monitoring pipelines, dashboards, and web-based monitoring solutions.
• Investigate and resolve anomalies in science data processing, including bug fixing, processor validation, and operational monitoring.
• Support instrument navigation, registration, calibration, and Calibration and Validation activities for Level 1 and Level 2 products.
• Apply satellite data to meteorology, oceanography, and atmospheric composition use cases.
• Produce scientific documentation, validation reports, software release documentation, and project documentation.

Requirements

• Experience with Sentinel-3 Level 2 Atmospheric Products, especially Clouds, Aerosols, and Water Vapour processing.
• Practical knowledge of atmospheric retrieval validation, including Aerosol Optical Depth and Total Column Water Vapour products.
• Experience maintaining operational Copernicus near-real-time atmospheric processors and investigating processing anomalies.
• Strong scientific software development background with Python and/or C in a Linux environment.
• Experience handling satellite and in-situ datasets, statistical analysis, data validation, and validation reporting.
• Background in remote sensing, Earth observation, atmospheric science, physics, environmental science, or a related discipline.

Nice to have

• Experience with match-up generation, validation datasets, and performance assessment.
• Knowledge of Git/GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, and RPM-based deployments.
• Experience with Docker, HTCondor, Bash scripting, and API-based data processing systems.
• Experience maintaining technical documentation in GitLab or Confluence.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position in an international working environment.
• Work within a group with more than 2,000 employees and over 40 years of engineering experience.
• Opportunity to contribute to operational systems supporting space and defence organisations.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV in English in Word or PDF format.
• Quote job reference 26135 in the application.
• Applications are accepted until 31 August 2026.