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

Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world’s most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13.800 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Airbus has achieved more than 8,000 deliveries since the first Airbus aircraft entered into service. Headquartered in Toulouse, France.

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