Mission
Sustainability of the space ecosystem is jeopardized by a growing population of space debris. If the current trend continues the risk of losing access to Earth’s orbit will increase dramatically.
One particular EPFL project, funded by the SNSF BRIDGE Discovery, is making breakthrough contributions to the analysis of both ground-based and in-orbit images so as to facilitate generic debris disposal, thus broadening the applicability of the technology developed for the ClearSpace-1 mission and increasing its impact on the space debris monitoring and removal market. Specifically, this project is investigating improving space debris knowledge databases; and extending our ability to determine the 6DoF pose of space objects. This project is a collaboration among three entities at EPFL: CVLab, LASTRO and eSpace at the EPFL Space Center.
We aim to share the products and technologies we have developed over the past three years with the space community; specifically, in the deployment of our Orbital Debris Lightcurve Inventory (ODLI). The software engineer will work alongside our team to organize ODLI to be user-friendly and containing user-oriented features.
More information is available here and here
Main duties and responsibilities
- Familiarization with the structure of the Orbital Debris Lightcurve Inventory (ODLI)
- Maintenance and expansion of ODLI
- Development of web based applications and APIs to access the data
- Quality control of the repository code-base
Your profile
- You are enrolled in/have graduated from a data science, software engineering or related field
- You are highly proficient in Python and SQL
- You have experience in
- working with large data sets
- database management systems
- designing web based user interfaces and APIs
- You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- You speak fluent English
- You are eligible to work in Switzerland
We offer
- A young, dynamic, interdisciplinary and international working environment
- A high level of independence in your work
- The possibility to be part of an initiative to make Space more sustainable!
- A competitive internship salary
More info
- Start date: Flexible; July/August ideal
- Work rate: 100%
- Duration: 6-12 minths
Contact
For further information you can contact: [email protected] (Postdoc), [email protected] (Executive Manager) or [email protected] (for administrative questions).