Earth Observation Intern: On-Board Processing for CHIME

European Space Agency - ESA; Noordwijk; On-site; EUR 12,000 - 19,000; Full time

Job summary

European Space Agency (ESA) is offering an internship in the Earth Observation Projects Department in Noordwijk, Netherlands. You will work on event-aware on-board processing for CHIME, turning research prototypes into a mission-level processing concept and integrating them into the satellite simulator.

Join a team of mission engineers and data-processing specialists to develop configurable processing modes, validate performance and produce reproducible validation packages for public

Qualifications

• Background in machine learning, computer vision, signal processing or remote sensing.
• Practical experience with Python and a deep-learning framework.
• Familiarity with hyperspectral data, transfer learning, model compression or uncertainty estimation is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Define configurable processing modes for land, ocean and night-time observations.
• Integrate existing detection methods into the end-to-end simulator.
• Connect detection masks with selective compression and data-prioritisation policies.
• Quantify detection performance, false alarms, data preservation and downlink savings.
• Assess robustness across geographic regions, seasons and illumination conditions.
• Define operating limits, verification criteria and traceability information.
• Deliver reproducible software, trained models, datasets and a technical report.

Skills

Machine learning

Computer vision

Signal processing

Education

Masters student

Tools

Python

Deep learning framework

Job description

European Space Agency (ESA) is offering an internship in the Earth Observation Projects Department in Noordwijk, Netherlands. You will work on event-aware on-board processing for CHIME, turning research prototypes into a mission-level processing concept and integrating them into the satellite simulator.

Join a team of mission engineers and data-processing specialists to develop configurable processing modes, validate performance and produce reproducible validation packages for public