Intern to support image-processing and calibration/validation activities for Earth-observation missions, developing engineering prototypes and evaluating AI/ML methods.
Compensation
Gratification: €1,300 gross/month.
Responsibilities
Review DSNU, radiometric calibration, and relevant EVP processing and CAL/VAL practices.
Work with EVP engineers to identify suitable routine images, metadata, and reference calibration data; document data limitations and provenance.
Prepare a reproducible dataset and establish reference baselines, including a holdout evaluation strategy that avoids tuning and testing on the same acquisitions.
Implement a baseline estimator: a data-fit term combined with a regularizing prior.
Investigate additional AI/ML methods only where suitable training or validation data are available; compare them against the baseline rather than assuming they are superior.
Requirements
Student in engineering, applied physics, remote sensing, image processing, data science, or a related field
Design, develop, and maintain the online software that carries out scientific observations for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), supporting VLA and VLBA and contributing to ngVLA systems.
Locations (4)
Socorro, New Mexico, United States
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Green Bank, West Virginia, United States
Compensation
The starting salary/hourly rate of this position is between $79,000-$121,000.
Responsibilities
Developing and maintaining software that sequences and executes observations