Intern, Product Systems & Digital Solutions
At SES, we believe connectivity should empower people, communities, and businesses everywhere. As a global leader in satellite-enabled communications, we operate the world's only multi-orbit GEO and MEO constellation, delivering high-performance connectivity and media services across aviation, maritime, government, enterprise, and mobility sectors.
Our culture is built on innovation, customer focus, technical excellence, and global collaboration. We solve complex challenges, develop cutting-edge technologies, and deliver mission-critical services with real-world impact. If you're driven by curiosity and passionate about shaping the future of connectivity, SES offers an ideal environment to launch and grow your career.
The Product Systems & Digital Solutions Intern will support a strategic program that is creating a consistent digital representation of SES products, services, and enabling resources. The intern will help convert structured business and technical information into practical, interactive tools that allow teams to explore relationships, test scenarios, validate data, and communicate complex portfolio information more clearly.
This 12-month internship is designed for a hands-on builder who enjoys combining software development, data work, and product thinking. Working closely with Digital Architects, Product teams, Engineering, and other stakeholders, the intern will contribute to both user-facing prototypes and the supporting data and backend activities required to make them reliable and useful.
Digital Tool Development & Rapid Prototyping
Build and improve interactive web-based tools that make complex product, service, and resource information easy to navigate, visualize, and explore.
Translate business concepts, workflow needs, and user feedback into working prototypes and incremental product enhancements.
Use modern coding practices and, where available, AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping while maintaining code quality, security awareness, and traceability.
Create clear demonstrations that help stakeholders understand tool capabilities and provide actionable feedback.
Data, Integration & Backend Support
Help gather, organize, cleanse, normalize, and validate structured information received from Product, Engineering, Operations, and architecture stakeholders.
Develop or support data ingestion and transformation routines for sources such as Excel, CSV, JSON, APIs, and structured repositories.
Assist with backend logic, lightweight services, data models, and interfaces that connect curated source information to user-facing experiences.
Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, duplicates, and broken relationships, and work with subject-matter experts to resolve them.
Maintain clear lineage between source data, transformation rules, application outputs, and approved changes.
Architecture & Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with two Digital Architects and collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering, Operations, IT, and other business stakeholders.
Participate in working sessions to understand domain concepts, user journeys, data relationships, and technical constraints.
Convert architecture guidance and stakeholder requirements into implementable features, data structures, test cases, and documentation.
Communicate progress, blockers, technical trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Quality, Testing & Documentation
Create repeatable tests for data transformations, application behavior, and key user workflows.
Support usability testing, defect triage, regression checks, and validation of outputs with business and technical stakeholders.
Use version control and maintain readable code, setup instructions, decision logs, and solution documentation.
Contribute to a sustainable handover by documenting how components work, how data is updated, and how future contributors can extend the solution.
Program Support
Help maintain backlogs, action items, dependencies, risks, and milestones for the digital workstream.
Prepare concise demonstrations, status updates, diagrams, and supporting materials for stakeholder reviews.
Contribute ideas that simplify workflows, reduce manual effort, and improve the quality and usability of program data.
Currently pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related technical field.
Hands-on coding experience demonstrated through academic projects, internships, personal projects, hackathons, or an online code portfolio.
Working knowledge of at least one general-purpose programming language, preferably Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
Foundational web development skills, including HTML, CSS, and client-side application development.
Ability to work with structured data and common formats such as Excel, CSV, and JSON.
Basic understanding of APIs, databases, data modeling, or backend application concepts.
Familiarity with Git or another version-control system and willingness to follow collaborative development practices.
Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and ability to troubleshoot problems methodically.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and the ability to work effectively in a global, cross-functional team.
Experience building a functioning web application, dashboard, data tool, or interactive prototype from concept to demonstration.
Exposure to a modern front-end framework such as React, Angular, Vue, or an equivalent technology.
Experience with Python-based data processing, SQL, REST APIs, lightweight backend frameworks, or cloud development environments.
Familiarity with automated testing, debugging, CI/CD concepts, containerization, or application deployment.
Experience using AI-assisted coding tools responsibly to explore solutions, generate scaffolding, troubleshoot, refactor, or document code.
Understanding of product management, systems thinking, enterprise architecture, telecommunications, satellite technology, or digital-twin concepts is a plus.
Familiarity with Azure DevOps, Power BI, Jira, or comparable delivery and visualization tools is beneficial.
Applicants should be able to demonstrate the following foundational capabilities at the time of application:
Provide examples of code or working solutions, such as a GitHub repository, personal project, course project, hackathon submission, or live demonstration.
Explain the problem addressed, the approach taken, personal contribution, key technical decisions, and lessons learned.
Comfortably move from an incomplete requirement to a simple prototype, seek feedback, and improve the solution through iteration.
Break ambiguous problems into manageable technical tasks and validate assumptions with users or mentors.
Inspect datasets, identify quality issues, and apply logical transformation or validation rules.
Debug code and data issues using a structured, evidence-based approach rather than relying only on generated answers.
Work constructively with architects, developers, product managers, and subject-matter experts.
Accept feedback, explain trade-offs, and iterate quickly without losing sight of maintainability and user needs.
Organize work, meet commitments, raise blockers early, and keep technical documentation current.
Curiosity about how complex technical and business systems are represented digitally.
Willingness to learn unfamiliar domains, development tools, data structures, and architecture concepts.
Interest in using emerging development approaches thoughtfully while verifying outputs and protecting confidential information.
Hands-on experience building a real digital product that connects business information, architecture, data, and software.
Practical exposure to front-end development, backend support, data transformation, testing, and iterative product delivery.
Mentorship and day-to-day collaboration with Digital Architects, Product professionals, Engineering teams, and global stakeholders.
Experience converting complex domain knowledge into intuitive user experiences and maintainable technical components.
Familiarity with enterprise delivery practices, collaborative development tools, architecture methods, and responsible AI-assisted development.
A meaningful portfolio of demonstrable work in the satellite and connectivity sector.
SES and its Affiliated Companies are committed to providing fair and equal employment opportunities to all. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.
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