Space Tech Intern — Advanced Concepts Team

European Space Agency; Noordwijk; On-site; EUR 10,000 - 17,000; Full time

Job summary

European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, Netherlands, offers an internship in the Technology Department, Advanced Concepts Team. You will engage in research on KTSP, guidance/control networks, and deployment heuristics, contributing to framework development and experiments.

The programme emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, mentorship, and hands-on work with optimization and machine learning concepts, with English as a working language and a strong academic focus.

Qualifications

• Must be a university student enrolled for duration of the internship.
• Background in algorithms or ML is desirable.
• Strong communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to KTSP topic research and development.
• Develop modular representations for heuristic components (ACO, beam search, MCTS).
• Benchmark KTSP variants and compare with baselines.
• Collaborate with ESA Advanced Concepts Team on project outcomes.

Skills

Algorithm design

Metaheuristics

Machine learning

Education

University student (Master/PhD candidate)

Tools

Python

MATLAB

Job description

European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, Netherlands, offers an internship in the Technology Department, Advanced Concepts Team. You will engage in research on KTSP, guidance/control networks, and deployment heuristics, contributing to framework development and experiments.

The programme emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, mentorship, and hands-on work with optimization and machine learning concepts, with English as a working language and a strong academic focus.