About this job

Space Applications Services is a company based in the Brussels area (BE) that provides products and services for the space sector in many areas from Avionics, Robotics, Human Exploration, Science and Earth Observation.

The successful intern will be based in our R&D office in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.The position is in the International Commercial Experiment Cubes (ICE Cubes) Service to support its Engineering Team.The ICE Cubes Service promotes and sells flight opportunities to research organisations, industries, space agencies, academia and educational organisations.

The intern will be supervised by the ICE Cubes Chief Engineer.

We are looking for someone to be available for a 4 to 6 months’ internship.

Responsibilities

Duties for technical internships include support to the Team in a selection of the following:

• Surveying and identifying:
• State-of-the-art scientific diagnostics (i.e. Raman spectroscopy, hyperspectral imagery, holographic microscopy) to be setup in a potential new in-orbit facility, based on end-use interest and potential
• Biological/fluidic containment systems (i.e. microfluidics devices, lgb-on-a-chip) to be setup in a potential new in-orbit facility, based on end-use interest and potential
• System engineering for the Phase A design of a new in-orbit facility (e.g. on the ISS): system and subsystem trade-offs, design and optimisation
• Contacting potential partner organisations and end users
• Supporting payload systems engineering tasks and conduction of Concurrent Design sessions
• Creating visualisation of concepts in 2D, 3D.

Profile

• Enrolment in the third year (or higher) in Engineering or Science: Aerospace, Mechanical, Optical, Biology, Fluids, Physics, Raman or general Spectroscopy, Microscopy, or similar

Depending on the Thesis’/Internship’s scope of work, a selection of the following is desirable:

• Hands-on experience (university/professional projects/DIY) in prototyping
• Experience with fluidic systems and/or biological experiments with in-situ diagnostics
• CAD design skills, 3D renderings (i.e. Blender, FreeCAD, SolidWorks) and conceptual illustration, 3D printing
• Basic knowledge of international spaceflight programmes
•  At ease with and interested in technical, scientific and space engineering aspects.
• Strength to cope with schedules and deadlines
• Ability to:
  • Adhere to strict standards of confidentiality
  • Synthesise, summarise and draw conclusions
  • Work in distributed international teams
• Excellent organisational and communication skills
• Excellent written and spoken English.

What Do We Offer?

• An experience in a growing company with Staff located in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands
• A professional, pleasant atmosphere with motivated and passionate Staff, where autonomy and initiatives are encouraged
• Under certain conditions, a monthly lump sum allowance.

The candidate shall be eligible to work in the European Union or in possession of a European Blue Card for two or more years.