Our team and mission

This position is based at the EGNOS Project Office – Toulouse CST

The GNSS Regional Augmentation System Division is responsible for the development of the EGNOS system and its qualification, in its role as Design and Procurement Agent, under the program management of the European Commission (EC). Version 3 of the system is currently under procurement under Phase CD.

The Division is also managing a number of research & development activities under the European GNSS Evolutions, H2020 Infrastructure, Horizon Europe and NAVISP programmes.

Candidates interested are encouraged to visit the ESA website: http://www.esa.int

Field(s) of activity for the internship

Topic of the internship: EGNOS System Performance Analysis Environment – Evolutions on SBAS performance analysis results publication and data management module

The EGNOS V3.1 System is composed of 39 Remote reference stations, 2 Main Control Centers (hosting in particular the central processing Facilities) and 6 Uplink Stations to connect to 3 EGNOS Geostationary satellites -  All sites being interconnected by a dedicated Real-time Wide Area Network.
The System is currently under deployment and the individual performance of each component as well as the  end-to-end performance shall be continuously monitored during this phase to confirm the configuration of the system algorithms.

The EGNOS System analysis environment is composed of a set of performance tools, processing huge volume of data and producing near-real time analysis and Off line analysis. 

With the objective to support the EGNOS performance engineering and demonstrations and during the deployment and on site qualification phases, the development of a specific module has been initialised to provide near real time capability, to interface with existing analysis environment, to select and process existing analysis results, to display, in near real time, dedicated web pages for internal publication with an appropriate security and access control. 

The objective of this internship is twofold: To further improve the functions already implemented in the first version of the module and to complement the functionalities, the integration level and the operability of the module to further support the EGNOS V3 deployment and performance qualification phase as follows:

• To collect the user needs for the specification of the tool for an internal publication inside the Division/Department;
• To operate the analysis and comparison tools to get familiarized with the analysis outputs and their Interfaces Control Documents;
• To define the development approach;
• To implement and test the internal publication using real data from the EGNOS System Performance Analysis environment;
• To support the entry into operations.

Behavioural competencies

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

For more information, please refer to ESA Core Behavioural Competencies guidebook

Education

You must be a university student, preferably in your final or second-to-last year of a university course at Master’s level and you need to remain 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 Member State language would be an asset.

Educational knowledge is required in areas such as:

• Computer science;
• Linux;
• Web site development;
• Databases;
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS);
• Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) and more specifically the European one: EGNOS.