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SalaryAcknowledgement of CountryCSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.Child safetyCSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs. View our .The opportunityCSIRO's space and astronomy research enables humanity to better understand the Earth and Universe. It contributes to solving the greatest challenges and building future industry.Our Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) is Australia's largest single astronomy institution and conducts 90 per cent of Australian radio astronomy research. It is used to investigate a broad range of subjects - from the evolution of galaxies, magnetic fields and black holes to using pulsars, rapidly spinning neutron stars, to look for gravitational waves.As part of the Radio Space Situational Awareness (SSA) project team, this role will contribute to astrodynamics understanding and calculations relating to SSA data processing from radio astronomy instruments. The radio SSA project team are developing operational SSA modes for a selection of ATNF instruments. As the Space Engineer, your role will be determining orbital parameters from data collected on radio telescopes for transmitting space objects or objects illuminated by a transmitter.Your duties will include:
- Software development in python for forward modelling of orbital parameters effect on signals incident on array elements.
- Signal to noise modelling.
- Generating synthetic testing datasets for validating and quantifying performance of various processing approaches.
- Optimal orbit determination based on measurements.
- Proposing and conducting experiments with array-based and single dish radio-telescopes.
- Familiarity with relevant radio-astronomy binary data storage formats.
- Communicating and documenting approaches to broader team members.
- Under limited supervision, designing and performing straightforward experiments and routine laboratory analyses, designing new processes or apparatus by adapting existing techniques and components to meet special circumstances or undertake modifications to methods requiring some innovation.
- Conducting literature reviews, investigations and inspections in the field or laboratory including associated analysis possibly involving statistical or graphics software.
- Developing, testing and modifying new software applications as required.
- Working with discretion to decide on the timing of operations within the work team's plan and planning ahead to meet experimental and/or project demands.
- Independently testing possible solutions to resolve identified problems.
- Responding courteously and efficiently to client requests, maintaining clear communication regarding mutual expectations and monitoring client satisfaction.
- Other duties as required.
- Relevant bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience in Space Engineering.
- Demonstrated experience in software development in Python.
- An understanding of the concepts of interferometry.
- An understanding of radio astronomy.
- Understanding of or previous experience in space situational awareness.
- Understanding direction of arrival determination methods.
- Experience in dealing with real data with noise and system artifacts.
