AI & Systems Engineering Intern (Space)

EU Satellite Centre (SatCen); Noordwijk; On-site; EUR 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

ESA's ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands invites university students to its internship program across six topics, including knowledge-graph workflows, neural network interpretability, verified code generation, and quantum/classification research for satellite data. The program emphasizes agentic AI, formal methods and collaboration with engineering teams.

Applicants must be enrolled at university for the entire duration, with English or French proficiency.

Qualifications

• University student, in final or penultimate year of Master's level study
• Proven ability to enroll for entire duration of internship
• Good knowledge of English or French (working languages)

Responsibilities

• Explore Topic 1–6 internships and assess applications against criteria
• Develop and evaluate prototypes or frameworks for one selected topic
• Collaborate with teams to integrate AI/ML solutions in space domain
• Participate in verification and validation activities for engineering software

Skills

Knowledge of AI

Knowledge Graphs

ML/AI fundamentals

Python programming

Robotics/ROS2 familiarity

Formal methods awareness

Tools

LEAN proof assistant

Symbolic AI

Job description

ESA's ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands invites university students to its internship program across six topics, including knowledge-graph workflows, neural network interpretability, verified code generation, and quantum/classification research for satellite data. The program emphasizes agentic AI, formal methods and collaboration with engineering teams.

Applicants must be enrolled at university for the entire duration, with English or French proficiency.