
Internship in Mechatronic Engineering for Agricultural Robotics (f/m/x)
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Job description
ZEISS Group posted this role. Below, we break down what it means for a working student in Karlsruhe: your weekly hours, take-home pay and visa limits. You can also open ChatGPT or Claude with a ready-made prompt to tailor your CV, check your fit, draft a cover letter or prep for the interview.
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Description provided by ZEISS Group
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.
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
Your Profile
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
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 SafradinWorking student essentials
What this Engineering internship in Karlsruhe means for you: the pay rules, the 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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