Internship (m/f) Galileo Satellite Navigation Algorithms, Ottobrunn

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.

Tasks

• Work in an integrated team on the ongoing deployment and exploitation of Galileo, the European satellite navigation system and concepts for future system evolutions
• Support the assessment of new navigation concepts and algorithms at system and user level
• Implementation of and experimentation with navigation concepts in close cooperation with the navigation system team
• Support the development of navigation analyses toolsets and participate to concept experimentations and trade-off analyses
• Get an inside in the development of large systems
• Trade-off analyses for different solutions and system implementation options
• Some example areas to support are: orbit determination, time synchronization, user error modelling, Precise Point Positioning, Advanced Receiver Integrity Monitoring, data dissemination algorithms in ground and space
• Software adaptations to support data evaluation and algorithm testing as well as optimization and verification
• The activity might be carried into a final thesis work
• This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Required skills

• Student of an engineering discipline, such as Applied Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, Geoinformatics, Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar
• Interest to deepen knowledge on satellite navigation systems
• Detailed experience in data evaluation and understanding of processing algorithms
• Experience in programming with Matlab, C or Python
• Experience in software design processes
• Interest to gain experience in rapid coding by applying an efficient development process by maximum utilization of development tools such as development environments, version control systems, debugging, testing, and documentation.
• Experience with software development and build process on Linux
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new topics
• Ambition to work in an international environment
• Interest to experiment with new and innovative ideas
• Good level in English and German languages