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ZEISS Group published this listing. We've added our own working-student context below — what this role means for your weekly hours, take-home pay and student visa as a student in Eggenstein, Germany.
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Description provided by ZEISS Group
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.
Your Role
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.
- Hardware development: Design, prototype, and integrate new features to enhance the active lighting, thermal management, automated battery charging and mechanical structure of the robot’s mobile base
- Navigation system: Support the development of environmental perception and localization systems for improved and safer navigation within greenhouses in cooperation with the camera vision & robotics teams
- Performance Evaluation: Benchmark and optimize the solutions developed in our lab in a greenhouse, in close alignment with our field engineers
- Concept development: Explore new mechatronic concepts for the automated maintenance of critical robot components, such as its end effectors
- Pursuing a master’s degree in Mechatronic, Mechanical or Electrical engineering
- Experience in designing, integration and testing of mechatronic systems; experience with robots, sensors and actuators is a plus
- Experience in prototyping
- Experience with AGVs and AMRs mobile robots is a plus
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and a proactive, hands-on approach
- Ability to work well in an interdisciplinary, international team
- Good command of English, German skills are an asset but not required
Your ZEISS Recruiting Team
Selina Safradin
Working student essentials
What this Engineering internship in Eggenstein means for you — pay rules, social contributions, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Internships have no 20-hour cap, but a voluntary internship longer than three months generally has to pay at least the German minimum wage. Mandatory internships in your study programme are exempt.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Mandatory internships are largely exempt from social contributions. Voluntary internships are treated like regular employment once they run long enough, so contributions usually apply.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
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