Internship in Motion Generation 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.
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 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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