N/A
Full-time
According to current legislation
Master's degree
Between 0 and 2 years
Intern
15/02/2026
Within ISAE-SUPAERO, the International Relations department has the following responsibilities:
- Proposing and managing international relations policy;
- Representing ISAE-SUPAERO within international networks and participating in their management;
- Drawing up, negotiating and managing international cooperation and academic exchange agreements with ISAE-SUPAERO’s partner universities and organisations, in conjunction with the Training Department;
- Promote and facilitate incoming and outgoing mobility for students, lecturers and researchers, in support of the Training Department and the DRRP;
- Managing funding for the outgoing mobility of students and staff.
Among the department’s activities, the trainee will be particularly involved in the Aerospace Summer Programme. This is a summer programme that welcomes around twenty foreign students and is organised every year by the schools in the ISAE group (a network of aeronautical and space engineering schools). The programme lasts six weeks, 3 of which are spent at the Institute.
Short programmes 2026: Aerospace Summer Programme
- Contribute to the organisation of the 2026 event (in particular Welcome Guide/Pre-Departure Webinar)
- Help welcome and monitor students when they come to campus (3 weeks in June/July)
- Contribute to the communication of the short programmes (brochure and video)
Participate in the development of promotional tools for the Double Diploma
(incoming and outgoing mobility) in collaboration with the Mobility Department
Additional tasks:
- Help update information about partner universities
- Participate in setting up new collaborations with Morocco in collaboration with the ISAE Group schools
Computer Vision and Sequential Decision Making for Plant Cultivation in Bioregenerative Life Support Systems
N/A
Full-time
Master's degree
Between 0 and 2 years
13/03/2026
Bioregenerative life support systems (BLSS) are being considered for future long-duration manned space travel, as supplies from Earth are too expensive, if not impossible. Moreover, environments suitable for agriculture will also be difficult to access on Earth, mainly due to climate change and resource depletion. Both on Earth and in space, it is therefore necessary to find solutions for growing plants, which can benefit from robotics, advanced automation and machine learning, according to the scientific literature.
This internship project in artificial intelligence applied to precision agriculture aims to contribute to the development of methods for maximising long-term production and minimising resource consumption.
It focuses on optimising:
1. the estimation of the state of plants and their environment using machine learning and computer vision algorithms to monitor their growth,
2. sequential decisions using reinforcement learning algorithms to calculate autonomous cultivation strategies that are efficient and economical in the long term.
Direct Numerical Simulation of Hydrogen Bubbles Cavitation (6 months)
Internship offer
Master's degree
Stagiaire
The objective of the present internship will be to use the DIVA code to carry out a parametric analysis on the influence of the distance between different bubbles over the wall heat transfer.
📌 Requirements: Master 2 student or equivalent interested in pursuing with a PhD thesis. Basics in computational fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, programming.
Towards mixed-initiative planning systems: building upon automated planning and plan recognition systems to construct solutions collaboratively
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) for Human–AI Collaboration
Internship offer
Full-time
4.35€ / hour
Intern
The goal of this internship is to explore Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) in a cooperative setting. Instead of learning only from environment rewards, the agent’s policy will be shaped by a human partner’s feedback during collaboration. Specifically, the human teammate will be able to assign positive or negative rewards based on how helpful, efficient, or intuitive the agent’s actions feel during the joint task. The intern will investigate how such feedback influences learning stability, team performance, and perceived fluency.
Numerical simulation of cracking in anodic films
Internship offer
Full-time
Master's degree
Between 0 and 2 years
Intern
2000 series aluminium alloys are widely used in the aerospace industry because of their very good specific mechanical properties.
In addition to the mechanical stresses associated with their use, aeronautical structures are also subjected to environments that can alter their integrity. Anodising surface treatments enable a thin protective film to grow, thereby improving the corrosion resistance of these alloys.
However, cracking or crazing can occur as a result of thermal stress, considerably reducing their resistance to corrosion in harsh environments. Understanding these anodic film degradation phenomena and identifying and taking into account the influencing parameters will help to improve the thermal behaviour of anodised components.
Psychoacoustic evaluation of drone noise
Internship offer
Full-time
Master's degree
Between 0 and 2 years
Intern
This internship proposes to evaluate the sound perception associated with multi-copter drones to allow the development of effective noise reduction strategies and awareness actions.
Flexible Aircraft Dynamics and Control
Internship offer
Full-time
600€ / month
Master's degree
Between 0 and 2 years
Intern
The flexibility of aircraft structures plays a crucial role in the design of high-altitude, highly efficient, and long-endurance vehicles. For such configurations, the traditional assumption of a fully rigid airframe is no longer valid. This structural flexibility directly impacts flight dynamics, stability, and control design.
The internship offers the opportunity to contribute to an active research area at the intersection of aerodynamics, structures, and control, with potential applications in next-generation UAVs and high-altitude, long-endurance platforms.
A look back at the 2024 Enterprise Village
The ISAE-SUPAERO Business Village is a not-to-be-missed annual event, eagerly awaited by students and the school’s corporate partners. It is one of the major events on campus, and a great opportunity to meet people, exchange ideas and create contacts and links.
Thanks to the many training options offered by the Institute, and the diversity of their first professional experiences and nationalities, the professional profiles of our students are perfectly adapted to the needs of companies.
For our students, this is a unique opportunity to talk to professionals to identify internship and job opportunities, to refine their project, or to find ideas to help their projects mature.
Once again this year, the event was well attended throughout the day, thanks to :
- numerous student-company and company-company exchanges and CVs sent in
- exchanges with our Corporate Relations and Alumni Department to consolidate our partnerships
- the addition of a stand dedicated to Innovspace, the Institute’s official incubator, and an Alumni stand
- workshops on Linkedin to strengthen our students’ profiles.
A big thank you to all the partners present at this key event:
ACCENTURE, AIR France, ALTEIA/DELAIR, ALTEN, ARIANE GROUPE, ASCENDANCE FLIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, ATR, BAIN & COMPAGNIE, BERTRANDT, ATR, BAIN & COMPAGNIE, BERTRANDT. COMPAGNIE, BERTRANDT, Capgemini, CEA, CNES, COLLINS AEROSPACE, COMMANDEMENT DE L’ESPACE, DAHER, EDF -DIPDE, EUTELSAT, EY, Headmind Partners, IRIS LAB, JOLIBRAIN, KXIOP, LIEBHERR, MBDA, NAVAL GROUP, ONERA, ORESYS, PARROT, PWC, SABENA TECHNICS, SII, SODERN, SOPRA STERIA, Space Flight Institute, TACITA DYNAMICS, VIRAJ H2.
“My summer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory”: Axel’s account, a student on the TAS Astro Advanced Master’s programme
Meeting with Axel Coulon
This is the story of a kid from Lorraine who has always asked himself a lot of questions...
“Since childhood, I’ve been on a quest for meaning,” says Axel Coulon. That’s why I became interested in philosophy and space at a very early age. Four years ago, the American Mars 2020 mission turned this interest into a passion.
This mission to explore the Red Planet, which culminated in the Perseverance rover being sent to Mars, was developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). But back then, in 2020, Axel had no idea that he would be working in this prestigious laboratory as a student at ISAE-SUPAERO. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, he was continuing his higher education at Polytech Nancy, an engineering school near his home.
And he was riveted by the Perseverance odyssey. “I kept asking myself: how could we send a helicopter and a rover to Mars?” The Martian adventure ended up influencing his decision to focus his training on space, and more specifically on space rovers and helicopters.
But this kid always wanted to go to Supaéro
After an academic stay in Montreal to study on-board automation, Axel first landed a placement at ESA’s European Astronaut Center (EAC) in Cologne. It was a dream come true. “I was helping to develop electronic software for the tablets that astronauts use to send data from field training. I had the opportunity to work with European astronauts like Luca Parmitano and to meet Thomas Pesquet on several occasions. I used to think about the village of 1,000 people where I grew up and say to myself, this is incredible!”
Once he had his engineering degree, he decided to take a year’s specialisation at ISAE-SUPAERO via the TAS Astro Advanced Masters®. In September 2023, he heads for Toulouse to fulfil a new dream: “I’ve always wanted to do Supaéro.” But preparatory classes and Grandes Écoles weren’t common in the environment I grew up in.
On the Toulouse campus, Axel quickly felt like a fish in water. He made friends with other space enthusiasts and joined diving and football clubs. He also immersed himself 100% in his training: “It was an intense and demanding year, but it was great for acquiring a complete knowledge of space engineering!” Above all, he was able to talk to alumni who had just returned from their internships at NASA. That’s when the idea, still crazy just a few months earlier, took shape in his mind: “I’m going to do it too”.
My teachers were very supportive. I realised that when you dare to ask for help, you get it. And that gives you confidence.
But an internship at the JPL was not a foregone conclusion. “Thanks to my teachers, I contacted a number of researchers working in flight robotics, but the replies were slow in coming.”
Without wasting any time, he threw himself into another challenge: finding funding. Several months passed, during which Axel took the risk of turning down a great opportunity for an internship in France. Deep down, he couldn’t stop believing. “My teachers in Toulouse and Nancy were very supportive. I realised that when you dare to ask for help, you get it, and that gives you confidence.” And he was right. His deserving profile and results won him an Espace grant from the Fondation des Ailes de France, a grant from his region (Grand Est) and a grant from the Fondation ISAE-SUPAERO. After four and a half months, he completed his budget by supplementing this funding with a loan from the same Foundation.
Then he discovered Los Angeles
Los Angeles is finally in his sights. At the end of April 2024, Axel sets off with the excitement of discovering the laboratory to which he owes his passion. But also the West Coast and the famous American way of life. “When you first discover American life, you’re amazed,” he says. There are house parties, you visit California… Everything seems so big. When you see LA from the window of the plane, you ask yourself: how big is this city? From time to time, however, he is reminded of the Pink City. “There are lots of Sup’ alumni in LA! For the first few weeks, when I’d walk around with my ISAE-SUPAERO T-shirt or cap on, I’d get stopped in the street,” he jokes. I thought: they’re everywhere!
At the JPL alone, he meets up with five other ISAE-SUPAERO students, all from the General Engineering course. “I don’t think we’ve ever been so many at the same time!” The atmosphere is “very international” and the site fills him with wonder: “It’s just as I imagined it would be.” I’m working in the new drone aviary. You can see there’s a lot of equipment and a lot of money.
His research placement is looking at finding landing sites for helicopters on Mars, in line with Mars 2020. However, the corporate culture is different from what he is used to in Europe. Fortunately, Axel has already had the opportunity to work in an American environment, during an academic semester at the French branch of Georgia Tech University in Metz. “In the United States, we don’t see work and management in the same way as in France. Problems are solved like an audit. Everyone also has a lot of freedom to act, which builds confidence. We assume that people know what they’re doing.”
This freedom of initiative is all the greater because he arrived just a few months after a plan to make engineers redundant at JPL. “There was work to be done and I was immediately given the responsibilities of an engineer.”
In the United States, work and management are viewed differently to the way they are in France. Problems are solved like an audit. Everyone also has a lot of freedom to act, which builds confidence. We assume that people know what they’re doing.
Even so, he doesn’t see himself staying in the United States after his placement. “As a Frenchman, I think it’s important to come back and work in Europe, on the continent that trained me and gave me so much. After his first love with Mars, he is now looking to the Moon. “With the prospect of future explorations, it’s very exciting!” His new goal? To work at the ESA, at the EAC where I did my traineeship, and where lunar equipment is being developed.
He’s sure to miss the Californian sun when he gets back, just after Halloween. But Axel is also looking forward to seeing his loved ones again. “Here in LA, everyone has their own car and house, and there are very few people in the street. I kind of miss the social atmosphere of France!”