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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 Munich, Germany.
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Your role
At ZEISS Corporate Research & Technology, we are offering student positions (internship and/or master’s thesis) starting from September 2026 in the area of multimodal AI and video understanding.
- You will work on research problems at the intersection of vision, language, and structured data, with a focus on developing models that can understand complex real-world scenarios such as surgical workflows
- The goal is to move beyond frame-level analysis towards holistic, temporally consistent representations that integrate multiple sources of information
- Your tasks Contribute to research on multimodal and video-based machine learning methods, develop and evaluate models for holistic video understanding (e.g. video-language models, temporal reasoning, multimodal fusion)
- Work with real-world datasets and problem settings from ZEISS applications, implement and analyze state-of-the-art approaches and extend them in a research-driven setting
- Enrolled in a Master’s or PhD program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field in Germany
- Strong fundamentals in machine learning and deep learning
- Experience with Python and common ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch)
- Interest in research and ability to work independently on open-ended problems
- Experience with video analysis, multimodal learning, or foundation models is a plus
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge research with real-world impact
- Close collaboration with research teams at ZEISS Corporate Research and Technology
- Possibility to transition from internship to master’s thesis based on performance
- Access to challenging datasets and modern ML infrastructure
Your ZEISS Recruiting Team
Ines Kloda
Working student essentials
What this Tech internship in Munich 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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