ZEISS | Germany | 76xxx Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen | Practical training | Full time | Published since: 29.04.2026 on stepstone.de
Internship in Motion Generation for Agricultural 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
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Your tasks • Your profile • What we offer
ZEISS is seeking a motivated internal to join our newly established AgTech department and work on mobile robots operating within high-end greenhouses. This is your chance to participate in a large strategic initiative aiming to revolutionize labor automation in agriculture with innovative robotic systems.
As an Internal, you will become part of a dynamic, start-up minded team of scientists and research engineers. Your primary role will be to develop and evaluate motion generation algorithms for a robot manipulator. You will gain hands-on experience in a real-world research environment, tackle exciting technical challenges, and help us shape the future of agricultural automation. Your Role 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. Algorithmic Development: Implement and measured state-of-the-art motion planning and control approaches for highly unstructured environments
Software Engineering: Develop, refactor and maintain motion generation pipelines building blocks in a large robotics codebase
Real-world evaluation: Test approaches on real hardware in greenhouses
Pursuing a Master's degree in robotics, computer science, electrical, mechanical engineering 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; English 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, etc.). .
Location
 | ZEISS | |
| 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen | ||
| Germany |
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