Are you keen to embark on a space adventure? Would you like to play a part in ensuring European space autonomy and sovereignty? ArianeGroup’s international teams design and build cutting-edge technologies for space, defence and industry: they are shaping Europe’s future in space. Whether you are a first-time job-seeker or an experienced professional, you’ll find that our 13 sites in Germany, mainland France and French Guiana offer career opportunities spanning a wide array of professions - engineering, customer service, quality control, legal matters and production, to name just a few. Here, you can discover our job.

For the department of Upper Stage System Engineering in Bremen, we are seeking an intern (m/f/d) in the field of RAMS & System Engineering starting December 2026 to support us for a period of 3 months and subsequently write a master’s thesis.

What we offer you:

• 🚀 Practical experience and involvement in an international aerospace company
• 💶 Attractive remuneration
• 🌤Company health management (regular prevention programmes, social counselling, company integration management)
• 🕓 Flexible working hours with partial home office option
• 🎾 Discount through employee benefits
• 🥗 Staff canteen and car park

Your main tasks and activities:

• Supporting our daily work including:
• Engineering tasks within projects and work packages
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues in Germany and France
• Contribution to (possibly taking over) RAMS tasks
• Assistance with conducting RAMS (Reliability Availability Maintainability and Safety) analyses
• Participation in the creation of technical documentation

After the internship, we are offering the establishing of a Master thesis “Calculation of reliability with respect to Reusability of the Upper Stages”. This will be done in cooperation with your university.

The growing number of players in the space economy has increased the competition between the launch system providers. Key to achieve cost reduction and increase the launch cadence. In this complex scenario ArianeGroup is pioneering the new European way to Space. In Bremen site we are developing the new Reliability calculation methodology to support the development and operations of the future reusable Upper Stages. Such methodology will play a crucial role in the definition of Maintenance activities, launch cadence and design architecture.

Currently, the calculation tool has been developed at equipment level and has proved outstanding results in the support of reusable parts. The next step is to enlarge such model to the complete Upper Stage architecture. In particular:

• scale the methodology from equipment level to Upper Stage subsystems modelling the interactions between the parts (redundancies, maintenance at different level) in terms of Reliability;
• generate a complementary methodology able to provide the optimal maintenance strategy
• Test and verification of software

You have the following qualifications:

• You are a registered student (m/f/d) in the field of Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering or a comparable degree program.
• You have first experience with reliability calculation
• You have a good technical understanding and Python knowledge (required for the master’s thesis).
• You possess initiative, thoroughness, and analytical skills.
• You have proficient MS-Office skills.
• You demonstrate strong communication skills, teamwork abilities, and an interest in space travel.
• You have fluent English language skills to ensure smooth communication within an international company.

Are you interested?

Then we look forward to receiving your application, including CV, cover letter and references, via the application button. Please note that currently only one document can be uploaded with the application. Please use a free online tool to summarise your documents in a PDF.

Your contact person for questions:

YP-recruitment@ariane.group

Few more words about our site of Bremen

This site, located on the outskirts of the Hanseatic city of Bremen in north-west Germany, has specialised in the development and manufacture of the upper stage of the Ariane launchers since the start of the programme. Its experts are responsible for the design, development and final integration of the Ariane 6 upper stage. They are also developing the Astris Kick Stage, an additional upper stage powered by the future reignitable bi-propellant engine called Berta, which will further enhance Ariane 6’s versatility. The Bremen site also produces metal tanks for the orbital propulsion systems.

ArianeGroup strongly believes in diversity as a key factor to strengthen innovation and collaboration.

We welcome all applications and are committed to creating an inclusive working environment.

Our selection criteria are based on competencies and professional skills alone.