# Engineering Internship

Duration 5 to 6 months. Starting Date Any time in 2027 (please state within your application your approximate preferred start date). Internship Details ESO's engineering internships provide hands-on experience in an international scientific and technological environment and offer exposure to the activities of one of the world's leading astronomical organisations. Interns have the opportunity to support active research and development projects within the directorate, gaining practical skills at the forefront of ground-based astronomy and technology. We offer a range of subjects to choose from, in different engineering fields: Data analysis of telemetry logs coming from our telescopes: VLT turbulent environment characterisation Local Large Language Models for engineering workflows Real Time Computing (RTC) for Adaptive Optics: LLM-assisted porting of VLT legacy code (SPARTA) towards the RTC toolkit for the ELT Modernisation of RTC data recording technologies A neural-network inference core for adaptive optics computers: latency and jitter benchmark Using AI (agents) to develop soft-RTC software based on the RTC toolkit The RTC toolkit control and monitor engine

- **Id**: 4064810
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/eso-engineering-internship>
- **Role**: Early Careers
- **Role family**: Early Careers
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Garching bei München, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T10:47:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T17:23:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5881
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- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Ammunition, Data Entry & Processing, Research Institutes, Website Monitoring

## Company

- **Id**: 35797
- **Name**: ESO
- **Domain**: eso.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/eso>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career sitemap

## Technologies

- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: yes

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T10:47:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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