MaiaSpace is a European space tech company, designing, manufacturing and operating competitive and sustainable solutions for space mobility. We are driven by the belief that access to space is a major enabler for a better and more sustainable life on Earth, addressing the challenges faced by humanity: climate, resources, connectivity, and data. Our aim is to successfully design and test a cost-effective and reusable mini-launch vehicle with a maiden flight expected in the coming year.  

Internship Description 

You will join the environment and costs optimization + strategy team (ECO+ team), which defines the company’s economic and ecological strategy, as Business Intelligence & Strategy Engineer Intern. As part of this team, you will be at the heart of the preparation for the first launches. 

Within ECO+ and supervised by the strategy engineer, you will support on-demand strategic analyses decided at each Program Increment. Your tasks will involve: 

• Competition analysis on Launch Service Providers or specific area of engineering, both from a technical and economic perspective ; 

• Updating existing competition benchmarks depending on needs ; 

• Elaboration of analytical cost models for specific MaiaSpace operations ;  

• Analysis of MaiaSpace’s supply chain, including geographical footprint ; 

• Support environmental performance priority actions ; 

• Support cost performance priority actions and follow-up modeling updates; 

• Work on ad-hoc requests from ExCo and ECO+ team members. 

🛸 Specific competences & abilities: 

• Strong analytical, modelling and synthesis skills ; 

• Studying engineering with inclination for aerospace and ideally, basics of economics ; 

• Curious, motivated and proactive ; 

• Proficiency in Excel, Powerpoint and Python ; 

• Comfortable exploiting LLMs and navigating high information influx. 

Requirements:

🎓 Qualification: 

Master’s student in aerospace engineering, or related fields, ideally complemented with an experience in economics via double degree, student club or previous internship. 

🎬 Working at MaiaSpace 

You will be joining a friendly multi-disciplinary team, comprised of multi-skilled people, following Agile and Scrum methodologies. This means that your role and responsibility may evolve over time with varied assignments and challenges depending on priorities and competences. Your work will be hands-on and in close contact with the final product. We are open-minded, transparent, pragmatic, result oriented and people centric. Teamwork is at the heart of how we work together and our co-workers share the same fundamental values: respect, humility, reactivity and autonomy with a passion for technical excellence. Our newly acquired office space at La Defense is located within the heart of Europe’s largest purpose-built business and commercial district with easy access to public transport. 

Written and spoken communication is in French and English