Intern, Innovation Services - Digital Tools & AI

European Space Agency; Noordwijk; On-site; EUR 12,000 - 17,000; Full time

Job summary

European Space Agency invites a university student to join the Innovation Services Section in Noordwijk for hands-on development of digital tools supporting ESA’s innovation activities. You will work on dashboards, knowledge discovery tools, and forecasting aids, applying Python, AI, NLP and data visualisation.

You will gain practical experience translating concepts into operational software while engaging with cutting-edge technology and a team focused on space-to-market transfer.

Qualifications

• You must be a university student, preferably in your final or second-to-last year of Master’s level.
• You must be enrolled at your university for the entire duration of the internship.
• Experience with AI, software development, data visualisation and stakeholder-oriented innovation is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop a dashboard for monitoring technology transfer activities.
• Create tools for discovering knowledge and technologies to solve problems using existing databases and AI capabilities.
• Prototype tools for expert forecasting on technical questions to inject collective intelligence into the design process.

Skills

Python

NLP

APIs

Data processing

GenAI

RAG

semantic search

AI fundamentals

data visualization

Education

Master's student in Computer Science / AI

Tools

Microsoft Power Platform

Job description

European Space Agency invites a university student to join the Innovation Services Section in Noordwijk for hands-on development of digital tools supporting ESA’s innovation activities. You will work on dashboards, knowledge discovery tools, and forecasting aids, applying Python, AI, NLP and data visualisation.

You will gain practical experience translating concepts into operational software while engaging with cutting-edge technology and a team focused on space-to-market transfer.