Vacancy-ID:  4836 
Place of work:  Oberpfaffenhofen 
Starting date:  01.07.2026 
Career level:  Student employment 
Type of employment:  Part time 
Duration of contract:  3-6 Monate 
Remuneration:  Remuneration is in accordance with the Collective Agreement for the Public Sector - Federal Government (TVöD-Bund)

The Galileo Competence Center is dedicated to the further development of the European satellite navigation system Galileo. Together with the scientific institutes and facilities of the DLR, the performance of Galileo and other existing systems is analysed, new ideas and promising technologies are developed, tested and validated and brought to operational maturity in close cooperation with industry.

The Space and Ground Segment Technologies department is dedicated to analysing existing systems in detail and deriving specifications for new technologies in the area of ground systems and satellite elements. The scenarios are driven by user requirements, technological developments and the needs defined by the EU, EUSPA or ESA. 

As part of this work, you will deal with modern methods of machine and deep learning in the field of space applications. The focus is on analysing complex technical time series data and on developing, evaluating and integrating suitable methods for practical problems.
You will work on the implementation of applicable machine learning pipelines for existing simulation environments or hardware-related systems as well as on the scientific investigation of sophisticated ML methods and architectures. A particular focus is on unsupervised and semi-supervised learning methods, especially for the analysis, modelling and evaluation of time series data.

Your tasks

• Evaluation and validation of selected machine and deep learning methods using available data sets and benchmarks
• Design, implementation and further development of applicable ML pipelines for time series data
• Integration and deployment of developed solutions in existing simulation environments and/or hardware-related systems
• Scientific analysis and evaluation of advanced ML concepts, methods and architectures with regard to their applicability in the space domain
• Independent familiarisation with new scientific issues and development of relevant literature and methods
• Preparation, documentation and presentation of results
• Collaboration on scientific publications

What you bring with you

• Enrolment in a scientific Master's degree programme, preferably in computer science, mathematics, statistics, data science, aerospace or a comparable scientific and technical degree programme
• Good knowledge of at least one programming language, preferably Python
• Experience in dealing with version control and modern development processes, ideally with Git and CI/CD
• Good written and spoken English skills
• Solid knowledge of statistics as well as machine learning and deep learning
• Ideally initial experience with advanced topics such as federated learning, explainable AI, anomaly detection in time series or self-supervised learning
• Ideally knowledge or practical experience in analysing time series data
• Ideally initial experience in scientific work, for example through seminar papers, project work or theses as well as in writing scientific texts
• Ideally submit code examples, a Git repository or other evidence of practical programming experience with your application

Remuneration will be paid up to pay group 3/5 TVÖD, depending on qualifications and tasks assigned.

We offer
DLR stands for diversity, appreciation and equality for all people. We promote independent work and the individual development of our employees both personally and professionally. To this end, we offer numerous training and development opportunities. Equal opportunities are of particular importance to us, which is why we want to increase the proportion of women in science and management in particular. Applicants with severe disabilities will be given preference if they are qualified.

We look forward to getting to know you!

If you have any questions about this position (Vacancy-ID 4836) please contact:

Nils-Holger Kaul 
Tel.: 08153 28 3448