Internship in Optical Sensing for Smart Instruments & Medical Robotics (f/m/x)

As a student, you work with your colleagues on an equal footing and create ideal conditions for your future career.

Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That's just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.

In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application silence of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

Apply now! It takes less than 10 minutes. Turning today's research into tomorrow's applications – together With a clear focus on user needs, the ZEISS Innovation Hub @ KIT explores new technology and application fields, enabling the transformation of ideas into innovations. Here, students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and ZEISS employees meet at eye level and practice an open-innovation culture.

For our team of researchers and engineers, we seek a student to support our research and experiments for optical sensing, with a focus on smart instruments & coherence tomography (OCT) for medical applications and medical robotics.

With us, you have the opportunity to perfectly combine your practical studies while participating in exciting projects. This allows you to gain valuable skills, expand your network, and grow both professionally and personally. Develop cutting edge optical smart instruments and medical imaging devices, utilizing multiple optical sensing modalities with a focus on medical robotics applications

Test concepts, core functionalities, and analyze data generated by optical sensing-based hardware and software

Help with the development of state-of-the-art research-grade prototypes in lab settings

Research existing solutions in scientific and patent literature and tailoring solutions to our needs

Conduct and evaluation experiments based on free-space and fiber-based optical systems

What we offer Dynamic, motivated team with a large and active student community

Agile work environment with the possibility to work on various tasks for innovative medical applications

Option for master thesis

Modern office culture with flexible working hours

A bachelor's degree and enrolled in a master's program in mechanical, electrical or (bio)medical engineering, optics & photonics, computer science, physics, or similar

Good understanding of the fundamentals of optics and ideally OCT

Programming knowledge in at least one of the following: Python, C/C++, or CUDA

Ideally hands-on experience with signal processing algorithms, machine learning algorithms and optical systems

Research experience in the development and integration of data acquisition electronics are a plus

Excellent organization, problem-solving & communication skills (English and/or German)

Passion for innovation and enthusiasm for new technologies as well as motivation to work in agile, interdisciplinary teams

Sounds exciting? Then become part of #teamZEISS and help us shape the future! Please provide your complete application documents (CV, transcript of records, etc.). .