Internship in Motion Generation for Agricultural Robotics (f/m/x)

Location: Karlsruhe

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Turning today’s research into tomorrow’s applications – together.

At ZEISS, we focus on user-centric innovation to transform ideas into cutting-edge solutions. At the ZEISS Innovation Hub@KIT, we foster collaboration between students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and ZEISS employees to drive technological advancements. 

You don’t just want to learn robotics in lectures – you want to see it working on real robots in real greenhouses? In our newly established AgTech team, you will work on mobile robots operating in high-end greenhouses and help us rethink agriculture through intelligent automation. This internship gives you the opportunity to join a strategic initiative at ZEISS that aims to revolutionize labor automation in agriculture using cutting-edge robotic systems.

Your Role

• Implement and evaluate state-of-the-art motion planning and control approaches for highly unstructured environments

• Develop, refactor and maintain motion generation pipelines building blocks in a large robotics codebase

• Test approaches on real hardware in greenhouses

Your Profile

• Pursuing a Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Data Science 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).

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Selina Safradin