Intern (m/f/d) Robot Motion, Control & Sensing

We are looking for an Intern (m/f/d) Robot Motion, Control & Sensing, who will help develop and test motion, control, and sensing software for our robot arms and humanoid robots during a six-month student internship.

This posting is for our intern talent pool and serves as an entry point to several of our robotics software teams. We review applications on a rolling basis and contact you when an internship matching your profile becomes available, typically several months before its start date. We match you with a team and a project during the interview process, and your exact responsibilities depend on that match.

Possible Responsibilities

• Software Development: Implement and extend robot software modules in C++ or Python, for example for motion planning, joint control, or sensor data processing.
• Hardware Testing: Run and debug your software on real robots and sensors in the lab, and reproduce issues found during testing.
• Sensor Integration: Integrate and calibrate cameras and other sensors, and keep coordinate frames and timing consistent across the system.
• Simulation: Build and use simulation setups to test software before it runs on hardware.
• Test Automation: Write automated tests and tooling that check the software keeps working as it changes.

Essential Skills

• Degree Programme: Enrolled in a Master’s programme in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Programming: Working proficiency in C++ or Python, including code written for a project beyond course exercises.
• Hands-On Robotics: Experience running and debugging your own code on a physical robot, sensor setup, or embedded device, for example in a lab, a thesis project, or a student robotics team.
• Robotics Fundamentals: Working understanding of coordinate transforms, kinematics, and basic control.
• Linux Development: Working familiarity with the Linux command line, build systems such as CMake, and Git.

Beneficial Skills

• ROS 2: Experience building or debugging ROS 2 nodes and the communication between them.
• 3D Perception: Experience processing depth-camera or point-cloud data on a running robot, including camera calibration.
• Motion Planning: Experience with motion planning or control for robot arms or mobile robots.
• Real-Time Systems: Familiarity with timing constraints in control loops or real-time operating systems.