Knowledge-Centric EO Engineering Intern

European Space Agency; Nederland; Hybrid; EUR 12,000 - 17,000; Part time

Job summary

European Space Agency in Noordwijk, NL, is offering an internship in the Future Missions and Architecture Department focused on knowledge-centric engineering for future Earth Observation missions.

You will explore how engineering knowledge can be structured and interconnected, promoting a single source of truth while preserving governance, review processes and traceability. The role involves practical prototyping and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Must be a university student, preferably in final or penultimate year of Master's degree.
• Proven ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and communicate in English.

Responsibilities

• Analyse information flows and artefacts in mission preparation and system engineering.
• Identify and classify key engineering knowledge objects like requirements, decisions, risks and interfaces.
• Develop a lightweight engineering knowledge model describing relationships between artefacts.
• Investigate how SharePoint, Lists, Power Automate, Power BI and AI assistants can support knowledge management.
• Design and implement a prototype engineering knowledge portal demonstrating traceability, baselines, decision tracking and verification management.
• Create visualization concepts to show dependencies across a complex mission architecture.
• Assess benefits and challenges of knowledge-centric engineering for future EO programmes.

Skills

Systems engineering

Knowledge management

Data analytics

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft 365

Education

Master's student

Tools

SharePoint

Microsoft Lists

Power Platform

Power BI

Job description

European Space Agency in Noordwijk, NL, is offering an internship in the Future Missions and Architecture Department focused on knowledge-centric engineering for future Earth Observation missions.

You will explore how engineering knowledge can be structured and interconnected, promoting a single source of truth while preserving governance, review processes and traceability. The role involves practical prototyping and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.