Software Engineer, Python

Job Responsibilities

Prototyping and software development of the telescope operational software (all stages of the full software development life cycle may be encountered).

Provide hands‑on technical support in the system administration of the hardware platforms, deployment environments, and processing, which may include site visits to the Karoo.

Collaborate with departmental stakeholders to support engineering, commissioning, operations, and early science activities.

Assist in maturing software development and quality assurance processes towards greater standardization and improved long‑term maintainability and robustness.

Facilitate coding standard compliance and code reviews, which include mentoring junior engineers.

Provide project management and progress reporting input as required by the Functional Manager and for team communication.

• B.Tech/B.Sc. (Comp Sci) with 5+ years
• B.Eng./B.Sc. Hons (Comp Sci) with 4+ years
• M.Eng/M.Eng/M.Sc. (Comp Sci) with 3+ years
• PhD with 2+ years
• Engineering (with a software focus) or related field>

• Experience in a software engineering environment, preferably in an engineering development project environment with a strong software focus.
• Python or C/C++ programming language and experience in development, testing, deployment, commissioning, release, and support of large‑scale projects in Python or C/C++.
• Technical knowledge of development in Linux operating systems (experience in system administration of such will be beneficial).
• Technical experience in architecture design and development of large software projects (experience with control and monitoring will be beneficial).
• Experience in programming in the Python programming language.
• Experience in prototyping and development, including testing, deployment, commissioning, release, and support of large‑scale projects.
• Experience with test‑driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies, and frameworks; and supporting systems like revision control and build systems.
• Experience with quality assurance processes and software development processes and willingness to participate in improving software development processes and software quality procedures.
• Experience in the implementation of project management and system engineering principles.

• Modern software collaboration tools such as Git Hub, Containers, Google Drive, JIRA, etc.
• Python programming language

Software Engineer
• Cape Town, Western Cape