ZEISS is seeking a motivated intern to join our newly established AgTech department and work on mobile robots operating within high-end greenhouses. This is your chance to actively contribute to a large strategic initiative aiming to revolutionize labor automation in agriculture with innovative robotic systems.
As an intern, you will become part of a dynamic, start-up minded team of scientists and research engineers. Your primary role will be to develop and evaluate motion generation algorithms for a robot manipulator. You will gain hands-on experience in a real-world research environment, tackle exciting technical challenges, and help us shape the future of agricultural automation.
With us, you have the opportunity to perfectly combine your studies with practical experience while actively contributing to exciting projects. This allows you to gain valuable skills, expand your network, and grow both professionally and personally.
Algorithmic Development: Implement and evaluate state-of-the-art motion planning and control approaches for highly unstructured environments
Software Engineering: Develop, refactor and maintain motion generation pipelines building blocks in a large robotics codebase
Real-world evaluation: Test approaches on real hardware in greenhouses
Pursuing a Master’s degree in robotics, computer science, electrical, mechanical engineering or related field
Good foundation in robotics, kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, control theory, optimization, or machine learning
Good coding skills with C++ and Python
Hands-on experience with tools like ROS 2, Pinocchio, Drake, MoveIt, Tesseract, ros2_control or LeRobot is a plus
High motivation and openness to learn new skills
Ability to work well in an interdisciplinary, international team
Excellent command of English; German skills are an asset but not required
Sounds exciting? Then become part of #teamZEISS and help us shape the future! Please provide your complete application documents (CV, transcript of records, etc.).
Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:
Selina Safradin
