Internship - Smart Robotic Sensor Benchmarking and Control (m/w/x)

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.

• Benchmark a prototype smart sensing system against high-precision external reference measurements
• Design and execute robot accuracy experiments inspired by industrial robot performance standards
• Analyze positioning accuracy, repeatability, trajectory-following error, and dynamic behavior
• Develop Python-based tools for data acquisition, synchronization, visualization, and statistical evaluation
• Support the development of inverse kinematics, trajectory generation, and robot calibration routines
• Compare commanded, internally estimated, and externally measured robot positions
• Prepare clear scientific plots, reports, and presentations to communicate experimental results

Your profile

• You are enrolled in a master's degree in robotics, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, control engineering, automation, or a related field
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or C++, with demonstrable hands-on project experience
• Good understanding of robot kinematics, coordinate transformations, and 3D geometry
• Basic knowledge of control engineering, including PID control and motion-profile generation
• Practical hands-on experience with experimental setups, sensors, actuators, or robotic systems

Sounds exciting? Then become part of #teamZEISS and help us shape the future!

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team: Franziska Gansloser

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 regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.