Intern in the Quality Department - Resilience, Navigation & Communication Product Assurance Section

Intern in the Quality Department - Resilience, Navigation & Communication Product Assurance Section

The Resilience, Navigation and Communication Product Assurance Section provides Product Assurance and Safety support to all missions of the Resilience, Navigation and Communication Directorate where AI technologies are starting to be used and developed.

• Location: ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands.
• Type of appointment: Intern.

Field(s) of activity for the internship

Your work will consist of the analysis of the state of the art of product assurance and/or quality, as well as verification and validation techniques and activities applied to the development of AI systems for space and other critical system areas such as aircraft, automotive, train and nuclear industry.

The aim of your project is to derive and propose Product Assurance or quality assurance techniques and verification and validation techniques to be used in the space domain. Identification of possible techniques to improve the security assurance of such systems is considered a plus.

Additionally, you will work with the PA team to assess the feasibility of using an AI tool (Xcert) for developing the requirement baseline and recording the verification artefacts.

Behavioural competencies

• Result Orientation
• Operational Efficiency
• Fostering Cooperation
• Relationship Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Forward Thinking

Education

You must be a university student, preferably in your final or second-to-last year of university course at Master's level. In addition, you must be able to prove that you will be enrolled at your university for the entire duration of the internship.

Additional requirements

The working languages of the Agency are English and French. A good knowledge of one of these is required. Knowledge of another ESA Member State language is an asset.

You should also have:

• software engineering background;
• knowledge of SW testing processes and tools;
• basic knowledge of software quality assurance practices and techniques;
• knowledge of AI Technologies and qualification of AI;
• basic knowledge of Security is an asset.

Nationality

Applications are only considered from nationals of one of the following States: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Applicants must be eligible to access information, technology, and hardware which is subject to European or US export control and sanctions regulations.