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

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH

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Oberkochen Until 8/22/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted June 12, 2026 Last posted June 12, 2026
Job description

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! Please provide your complete application documents (CV, transcript of records, etc.).

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Franziska Gansloser
About this role

Summary

Assist in benchmarking robotic sensors, develop Python tools, and analyze robot accuracy and calibration.

Job title

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

Experience level

student internship

Industry

healthcare

Location requirements

Oberkochen, onsite, no remote work

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonC++robot kinematicscoordinate transformations3D geometrycontrol engineeringPID control

Preferred skills

robot calibrationtrajectory generationinverse kinematicssensor systems

Specializations

roboticssensor benchmarkingcontrolmechatronics
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

73447 Oberkochen, Germany

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