Video Archive Intern: AI-Enhanced Data Management

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; Frascati; On-site; EUR 10,000 - 17,000; Part time

Job summary

European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy invites a university student to join the Communication Department’s Video Team for an internship in Audio-Visual Archiving. You will help implement a new video storage system and support ongoing archiving activities across media assets.

The role offers hands-on experience in metadata, storage architecture, and collaboration with editors, with potential involvement in AI-assisted data management initiatives.

Qualifications

• Must be a university student, preferably in final or second-to-last year of a Master’s degree.
• Must be enrolled at your university for the entire duration of the internship.
• Knowledge of video editing and data management is an asset.
• Working languages are English or French; knowledge of another ESA language is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Test the server: read/write speed, upload/download speed, network utilization, latency.
• Ensure metadata system is linked to media and update as needed.
• Develop a storage architecture with folder structures and transcoding where needed.
• Follow metadata system and thesaurus; coordinate with editors on indexing.
• Transfer video files from archived drives to ESA server (XMAM/NAS).
• Ingest video files from shoots to the ESA server.

Skills

University student

Education

Master's level student

Tools

Video editing software

Job description

European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy invites a university student to join the Communication Department’s Video Team for an internship in Audio-Visual Archiving. You will help implement a new video storage system and support ongoing archiving activities across media assets.

The role offers hands-on experience in metadata, storage architecture, and collaboration with editors, with potential involvement in AI-assisted data management initiatives.