Scientific Software Engineer

Your Mission/Field of Work

You are a Software Engineer with an academic background in natural/technical sciences and want to contribute through your work to

• support global geophysical monitoring systems in an international context
• help geoscientists evolving their data analysis tools
• assure the quality of Earth observation data for climate monitoring

Your Skills and Experience

As our preferred candidate you have professional experience in the following areas:

• A university degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or a related scientific/technical subject
• Strong experience in object-oriented development with Python and C/C++
• Relational databases, SQL and database programming
• Software development under Linux with large codebases
• Demonstrated technical presentation and communication skills
• Sound communication skills in written and spoken English

Beneficial skills are also:

• Experience in scientific GUI development with PyQt and Matplotlib
• Knowledge of or interest in Angular, React, Java, C#
• GitLab and continuous integration and testing pipelines
• Experience with software containerisation using Docker or Podman
• Agile development frameworks, preferably Scrum with Jira or other issue tracking tools

Our Offer

At AWST, we are a small and independent Vienna based team providing software development and software engineering services to international organisations.

We offer flexible work times, remote and local work options, free public transport in Vienna and the opportunity to help shaping our company. We have an international and culturally diverse focus and welcome applications from both German and non-German speaking candidates.

Salary

We offer a starting salary between 45,000 EUR und 62,000 EUR gross per year (on a 40-hour basis) which will be adjusted based on your qualification and experience. The salary is paid 14 times per year.