Internship in EADS UK, Innovation Works

Internship Description

Innovation Work, EADS UK

Location of internship: EADS UK, Newport, South Wales, UK
Pay: £14,400
Time of contract: 1 year

Contact: Tomas Sanchez Lopez (Research Team Leader, Information Fusion), tomas.sanchezlopez@eads.com, +447970389822

The EADS Group is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services, employing around 133,000 people at more than 170 sites worldwide. The Group brings together businesses that are market leaders in their own right, forming a collective driven by a single vision. The main divisions inside the EADS Group are Airbus, Cassidian, Eurocopter and Astrium. EADS and its Divisions promote cutting-edge technologies and scientific excellence to contribute to global progress and to deliver solutions for the challenges posed by such societal issues as environmental protection, mobility, defence and security, and safety. EADS Innovation Works is a global network of technical capability centres that covers the skills and the technical capabilities that are critical for the group, promoting and delivering research for all the divisions inside EADS.

Description of main responsibilities:

Technical work primarily in the context of an on-going project with the following requirements:

 - Familiar both Windows and Linux environments
 - Familiar with installation processes which might some time include
   o Simple scripting
   o Configuration of the system (e.g installation of required services, configuration of ports, troubleshooting of errors)
   o Compilation on Linux environments

 - Programming knowledge (particularly Java and Eclipse)
 - Understanding of Web Services and associated networking protocols and standards (e.g XML, SOAP, WSDL, etc)
 -  Understanding of code management techniques such as Maven, SVN, bug tracking, etc
 -  Ideally some understanding of semantic web technologies such as what ontologies or RDF are
 - Summary of technical capabilities: Somebody that looks at this http://weblab-project.org/index.php?title=Developer_Dashboard and feels capable to install it and give some hacking a go.

Also required
 - Good handling of English language both written and spoken
 - Able to write good quality reports with technical content