Internship in Optical Sensing for Smart Instruments

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 & optical coherence tomography (OCT) for medical applications and medical robotics.

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.

• 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 tailor solutions to our needs

• Conduct and evaluate 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 subsequent master thesis

• Modern office culture with flexible working hours

Your Profile

• 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.).

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