Internship in Motion Generation for Agricultural Robotics (f/m/x)

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH

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Karlsruhe Until 8/22/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted April 30, 2026 Last posted April 30, 2026
Job description

Turning today’s research into tomorrow’s applications – together.

At ZEISS, we focus on user-centric innovation to transform ideas into cutting-edge solutions. At the ZEISS Innovation Hub@KIT, we foster collaboration between students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and ZEISS employees to drive technological advancements. 

You don’t just want to learn robotics in lectures – you want to see it working on real robots in real greenhouses? In our newly established AgTech team, you will work on mobile robots operating in high-end greenhouses and help us rethink agriculture through intelligent automation. This internship gives you the opportunity to join a strategic initiative at ZEISS that aims to revolutionize labor automation in agriculture using cutting-edge robotic systems.

Your Role

  • Implement and evaluate state-of-the-art motion planning and control approaches for highly unstructured environments

  • Develop, refactor and maintain motion generation pipelines building blocks in a large robotics codebase

  • Test approaches on real hardware in greenhouses

Your Profile

  • Pursuing a Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Data Science 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; German 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).

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Selina Safradin
About this role

Summary

Implement and evaluate motion planning and control for agricultural robots using real hardware

Job title

Internship in Motion Generation for Agricultural Robotics (f/m/x)

Experience level

student/internship

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Karlsruhe, Germany; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

C++Pythonroboticsmotion planningROS 2

Preferred skills

PinocchioDrakeMoveItTesseractros2_controlLeRobot

Specializations

motion planningcontrolroboticsautomation
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

76 Karlsruhe, Germany

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