Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Are you looking for a new opportunity to take your career to a higher orbit 🛸? To join an international group with a successful track record in Space Engineering? A job adapted to your career ambitions and in which you could have an impact for the years to come?

We are looking for an Artificial Intelligence Engineer to work at ESTEC’s premises in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

📍 About the client and location

The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) is the European Space Agency’s (ESA) base in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. As ESA’s largest test centre, it is responsible for the majority of space technology and spacecraft development through varying phases of production.

💼 Tasks and activities

The scope of work will include:

• Supporting the definition and development of AI systems, from concept to implementation.
• Contributing to the analysis and trade-off of AI techniques and technologies, helping identify the most effective approaches for each project.
• Assisting in the integration and deployment of AI solutions within existing systems and operational workflows.
• Managing and pre-processing data used for training AI models, ensuring high standards of quality, consistency, and availability.
• Supporting the verification and validation of AI systems to ensure reliability and compliance with mission objectives.
• Training and fine-tuning AI models, continuously optimizing their performance, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Monitoring and maintaining AI systems in operation, adjusting and updating them as needed to ensure ongoing effectiveness.
• Contributing to the definition of standards and best practices for the development and deployment of AI technologies.

💡 Skills and experience

The following skills and experience are mandatory:

• Master’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science is required.
• At least 4/5 years of relevant work experience.
• Knowledge and experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, data science methodologies, etc.
• Familiarity with AI and Data Science approaches for engineering analysis, mission optimisation, decision support.
• Desire to work both autonomously and as part of a team, in an international multicultural environment.
• Solution oriented mindset, with a customer focused communication skill.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Candidates must be eligible for a security personal clearance from an EU Member State national security administration.

🌟 Why should you apply?

• You will have the opportunity to work within leading space organisations across Europe.
• We encourage everyone to think outside the box and to push the boundaries of traditional knowledge. This role is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking company and allows for a deeper understanding of the industry.
• To be part of a company that values integrity, inspiration, care and collaboration.
• Benefits include: competitive remuneration packages; unique career opportunities, including working in other countries; access to training and development programmes; flexible relocation support.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, all genders, LGBTQ+ individuals and ex-service personnel.

🚀 About Starion 🚀

Starion is one of two new legal entities rebranded from the RHEA Group, focused on space consultancy and space engineering services and solutions. Starion provides engineering expertise and solutions for space, defence and other critical infrastructures across Europe, pushing the boundaries of innovation. Our teams work on world-leading space projects that deliver the pioneering missions that provide us with the information and technologies we use today.

Starion offers over three decades of expertise in professional engineering services, developing and operating systems and solutions tailored to our clients’ needs. By combining space and system engineering with established and emerging technologies, such as AI and quantum, we produce innovative solutions that make a fundamental difference for our clients and for society.

Starion employees are located across Europe, close to our clients’ offices, enabling us to be responsive and agile. Our engineers and researchers are among the most trusted and respected in the industry, helping build space-based solutions that address major challenges on Earth such as civil security, climate change and deforestation.