Space Exploration Data Infrastructure Intern

European Space Agency - ESA; Noordwijk; On-site; EUR 6,700 - 11,000; Full time

Job summary

European Space Agency - ESA in Noordwijk, Netherlands, invites applications for an internship in the Exploration Science Office - Data Infrastructure. You will contribute to building a common data infrastructure by analyzing sources, modeling data, and implementing relational databases connected to user-facing applications.

You will gain hands-on experience in data architecture, data pipelines, APIs, data quality measures, and maintainable software within a multidisciplinary ESA team.

Qualifications

• You must be a university student enrolled for the entire duration of the internship.

Responsibilities

• Analyze existing data sources and translate requirements into a structured data model.
• Design and implement a relational database with data-integrity rules.
• Build repeatable processes to migrate, clean and transform data.
• Develop data pipelines and interfaces for retrieving information from external sources.
• Implement data-quality methods for validation, provenance and deduplication.
• Create reusable data services for applications and reporting tools.
• Test and document the data infrastructure for long-term maintenance.

Skills

Python

Data pipelines

Data modeling

API usage

Education

Master's student in relevant field

Tools

SQL

Git

Docker

Job description

European Space Agency - ESA in Noordwijk, Netherlands, invites applications for an internship in the Exploration Science Office - Data Infrastructure. You will contribute to building a common data infrastructure by analyzing sources, modeling data, and implementing relational databases connected to user-facing applications.

You will gain hands-on experience in data architecture, data pipelines, APIs, data quality measures, and maintainable software within a multidisciplinary ESA team.