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Welcome to the European Space Agency's recruiting site.

For candidates interested in applying for the Director General position currently open, please follow this link for detailed information on the job profile and requirements

Explore our vacancies and take your career to the next level. Whether you are an experienced professional, graduate or student, discover the impact you could make in one of our multi-cultural teams keeping Europe at the forefront of space research and operations.

Here you can:

Browse our open vacancies

Apply for jobs

Track the status of your application

Build your candidate profile

Set up job alerts to find out about new vacancies

You can search for specific vacancies by using keywords or by ESA’s Locations.

To apply you need to be a national of one of ESA’s 22 Member/Cooperating States which include:

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Canada, Latvia and Slovenia. In addition, nationals of European Cooperating States (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Lithuania and Slovakia) may apply to traineeships (Young Graduate Trainee) and research assignments (Internal Research Fellow) as well as internships (Intern).

Please note that the nationality or nationalities you indicate in your candidate profile must be supported by a valid passport or national ID card at the time of application. The first nationality indicated will be the one taken into account in the selection process regarding the priority given to under-represented Member States.

When applying for the first time to an ESA position, you will be asked to create your Candidate Profile prior to the Application form. Your motivation letter and CV attached by default in your application form are the ones uploaded when creating your profile. Subsequently, should you wish to upload an updated letter/CV relevant to a specific post please attach them in the application form. While you can update your profile at any time, bear in mind that the information and the attachments you modify in your profile will only be visible in your future applications.

If you experience technical issues or have a disability and need special assistance please contact us at contact.human.resources@esa.int

To find out more about working at ESA, visit our career website at http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Careers_at_ESA