ESA Graduate Trainee in LLM Applications for Technical Management in Sentinel-2 Next Generation
European Space Agency - ESA
Noordwijk, Netherlands
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Contribute to feasibility and preliminary definition activities for Earth observation projects. You will contribute to feasibility and preliminary definition activities for an Earth observation development project within Copernicus, focused on Sentinel-2 Next Generation. The work will concentrate on the definition and early implementation of large language model applications that enhance the technical management of a space project by improving traceability, consistency, and timeliness of engineering information. Activities will include gathering and structuring user needs and use case scenarios; supporting requirements capture, decomposition and bidirectional traceability; and preparing technical material to enable efficient project reviews and decision making. You will perform early trade off analyses for candidate architectures and workflows, including options for centralised technical knowledge bases, automated technical reporting, and analysis of project data to identify patterns, outliers and emerging risks. You will develop and evaluate proof of concept prototypes, define an initial verification and validation approach for model outputs, and propose metrics and test datasets aligned with project management use cases. You will also contribute to infrastructure concept definition and security considerations for deployment environments, support meeting preparation and action tracking, and maintain concise technical notes to capture decisions and rationale. The overall objective is to provide review ready, evidence based inputs that accelerate feasibility assessment and preliminary definition while establishing a robust foundation for later implementation and operational use.
