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Engineering Internship

Standort Garching
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  • Veröffentlicht am 19.12.2025
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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 .

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    European Southern Observatory, Garching

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