AI/ML Engineering Intern: System 1 Models for Reactive Space Operations
Loft Orbital Solutions1 day ago
Toulouse, FranceIntern
Responsibilities
- Review System 1 and System 2 model research and compare partner models.
- Identify opportunities for System 1 models across satellite reactivity workflows from detection through tasking.
- Define benchmark scenarios for single-satellite, two-satellite/two-sensor tip-and-cue, and potentially multi-satellite operations.
- Establish latency, accuracy, compute, and execution-context requirements for each scenario.
- Build datasets and evaluation sets from Loft data, partner outputs, and open datasets.
- Train or fine-tune System 1 models and benchmark them against System 2 baselines.
- Prototype an end-to-end reactive loop, potentially combining System 1 triggers with System 2 validation.
- Document production recommendations and deliver a final demonstration.
Requirements
- Be a final-year engineering or Master’s student specializing in machine learning, deep learning, or computer vision.
- Have solid Python and PyTorch skills and good software engineering practices.
- Have a strong understanding of LLMs, VLMs, and reinforcement learning.
- Have practical experience training neural networks for language or computer-vision tasks and/or manipulating LLMs.
- Model optimization, including quantization, distillation, or edge inference, is preferred.
- Exposure to satellite or geospatial data is preferred.
- Experience with multi-agent or distributed systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Six-month end-of-studies internship with a target start date in early 2027.
- Based in Loft Orbital’s Toulouse city-center office near Jeanne d’Arc metro station.
- €1,300 gross per month internship gratification.
- Lunch vouchers and a sustainable mobility package.
- International environment with more than 20 nationalities.
- Daily mentoring throughout the internship.
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About Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions builds standardized satellite platforms and delivers end-to-end missions as a service for governments, companies, and research institutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held firm integrates, launches, and operates spacecraft to deploy Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on‑orbit compute, and national security payloads in months. Loft has flown more than 30 missions, using hardware and software abstraction layers atop commodity satellite buses.