Engineering Internship

Garching

Veröffentlicht am 17.11.2025
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Engineering Internship

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The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere has as its primary mission to build and operate state-of-the-art facilities for the advancement of astronomical research. A strong Research & Development (R&D) programme is therefore at the core of ESO's activities.

What are we looking for?

Dynamic young individuals ready to take an active part in the ESO R&D projects with a good deal of team spirit, curiosity and eagerness to learn.

What are we offering?

Several possibilities to make an internship of 4 to 6 months in the frame of the last year of your graduate studies at ESO Garching in an engineering field;

An international, multi-disciplinary environment, situated on the Garching science campus close to Munich, Germany, next to the best German universities, world-renowned research centres and 3 recent Nobel prizes;

Working in collaboration with ESO's partner institutes and high-tech industries in the ESO member states;

Three observatories at the forefront of ground-based astronomy and of technology: La Silla, Paranal and ALMA. And one of the most challenging telescopes under construction: the Extremely Large Telescope;

A decent cost-of-living compensation including lodging in an ESO apartment if available.

Current ESO active R&D projects:

Advanced visible and infrared detectors for astronomical instrumentation (modelling, testing, development of CMOS fast detectors, curved detectors...);

Adaptive optics and related components including laser guide stars, deformable mirrors, wavefront sensing, tomographic techniques, interactions with segmented mirrors...;

System simulation and modelling including deformable mirrors, telescope seeing effects, exposure time calculators, instruments, model-based system engineering;

Optical metrology and photonics for (sub-)micrometric large structure characterisation, interferometry;

Astrophotonics and integrated optics;

Mechanics and cryogenics;

Real-time computing.

Machine learning applied to different fields.

For more details and the list of internship subjects please see the following .

Standort

European Southern Observatory, Garching

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