Andreas.Rathke@esa.int
2004-Oct-06 01:25 UTC
ESA Research Fellowship in Collaborative Open Design (Postdoctoral Position)
The European Space Agency's Advanced Concepts Team is looking for highly motivated young researchers, with good analytical and communication skills and excellent aptitude for team work. The candidate should have obtained a PhD or be about to. Free software development has led to impressive programs of high quality. First attempts to transfer the collaborative methods of open source development to problems outside the software domain were recently conducted with remarkable success. Establishing a collaborative development environment within ESA seems to promise great synergies. The research fellow should have sound knowledge in collaborative, open source developments. He/She should have experience in both technical and organisational aspects of free software design. The candidate should preferably have experience in the maintenance/administration of a free software project. His/her experience of the working methods, cooperation schemes, planning and implementation techniques specific to distributed, collaborative software development will help identifying ways to transfer these methods and techniques to processes relevant for ESA General Studies Programme and the Advanced Concepts Team. The general conditions of eligibility of the ESA Research (Internal) Fellowship Program should be fulfilled; these can be found at http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Careers_at_ESA/SEM19DXO4HD_0.html Applicants should send their CV and covering letter, stating their research interests to: ACT@esa.int Deadline for application submission is 15/11/2004. However please note that applications will be given consideration until the position is filled, so early applications are encouraged. To learn more about the Advanced Concepts Team take a look at http://www.esa.int/act -- Andreas Rathke ESA Advanced Concepts Team ESTEC (DG-X), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk ZH, The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)71 565 4497, Fax: +31 (0)71 565 8018 http://www.esa.int/act