Job TitleInternship: Exploring the use of AI Tools
Job Description
Background:
Our department is responsible for developing and maintaining complex baggage handling systems that require deep domain knowledge. Daily work involves not only understanding and troubleshooting these systems, but also creating and adjusting detailed configurations based on functional requirements and operational constraints.
We believe that AI can play a significant role in improving how we manage and share knowledge, solve issues, and even support the configuration process itself. Rather than building AI from scratch, this internship will focus on evaluating existing tools to see how they can help us work smarter and more efficiently.
Assignment Objective:
Investigate how existing AI tools can assist our team in:
- Sharing and accessing domain knowledge more effectively
- Analyzing and understanding technical issues
- Supporting the creation, validation, or improvement of system configurations
Activities:
- Research and evaluate AI tools (e.g., copilot, knowledge bases, config validators, natural language interfaces)
- Build one or more small-scale demos using representative configuration files and documentation
- Conduct user testing or feedback sessions with engineers to evaluate usability and value
- Summarize insights, tool comparisons, and next steps in a clear and actionable format
Skills/Interests:
- Interest in AI and intelligent systems
- Curiosity about how complex systems are built and maintained
- Comfortable working with structured and unstructured data (e.g., config files, documents)
- Basic knowledge of Python or scripting is helpful
- Willingness to explore and experiment with modern AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, Notion AI, etc.)
Department:
The IT Solutions Project Engineering team operates globally to deliver High Level Control (HLC) software solutions for airport baggage handling systems within Vanderlande. Our software ensures the smart routing, tracking, and control of baggage flows, tailored to each airport’s specific operational needs. We work closely with customers and internal teams to configure, implement, and optimize these vital systems.
Top Skills
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market.
Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions.
The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.
Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation.
Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
