Internship Remote Sensing / Satellite Products (m/f/d)

Job description

Job Field: IT / Information Management
Location: Köln, DE
Company: BASF Digital Farming GmbH
Job Type: Internship
Job ID: EN58035861_ONLE_2

We are the world's leading chemical company because we offer intelligent solutions for our customers and for a sustainable future. We connect and develop people with diverse talents all over the world. For you, this means a variety of ways to advance. Not only your performance but also your personality matter to us, without regard to gender, age, origin, sexual orientation, disability or belief. At BASF, careers develop from opportunities.

At BASF we create besides chemistry and seeds also digital products - xarvioTM SCOUTING and xarvioTM FIELD MANAGER - for a modern agriculture making farming smarter and easier. We help farmers to optimize their crop production by constantly analyzing their fields on a field-zone level, increasing the knowledge about crops and processing the information to up-to date independent field management recommendations. With our highly dynamic digital farming organization we are connected globally in multiple countries and markets improving our rule engine specifically to local needs and delivering our digital solutions farmer specific. Working in digital farming is about cross-functional empowered teams with flat hierarchies, direct access to people and knowledge, applying agile methods and enjoying a start-up atmosphere.
What you can expect

During your 6 month-internship in our unit Digital Farming Technology you will be working on diverse types of data from sources like agricultural fields, soil sampling, weather monitoring and smartphone apps.

·  You will shape a new era of satellite tools lifting scalable digital agriculture to the next level.
·  Furthermore, you will handle as well as manage satellite data from a wide array of sensors.
·  You will explore and implement state-of-the-art data analytics for crop monitoring.
·  In addition, you will be responsible for building prototypes to identify new product ideas and improve internal workflows.
·  Last but not least, you will communicate results to non-technical as well as technical stakeholders and closely collaborate with product managers.

What we expect

·  You are currently studying remote sensing, geoinformatics or another related field with an outstanding academic track record.
·  Through internships or university projects you have already gained experience in vegetation sensing concepts or image time series.
·  Furthermore, you have good programming skills in scientific programming languages like Python or R and familiarity with SQL, QGIS, ArcGIS or SAGA-GIS.
·  You are able to express your strong communicational skills fluently in both written and spoken English.
·  On a personal level, you convince through your communication skills and your customer orientation.

We offer

·  Responsibility from day one in a challenging work environment and 'on-the-job' training as part of a committed team.
·  Support of all employees by using different measures to ensure the balance of professional and private life.
·  Competitive compensation including attractive benefits as well as excellent career opportunities in an international Company.

Join the best team with more than 110,000 other minds to connect with globally. Explore your BASF career options at on.basf.com/mycareer.