Internship / Thesis Robotic Foundation Models for Automotive Final Assembly (m/f/d)

As part of the Group IT for Production and Logistics, we are responsible for software deployed across the entire process chain and are actively shaping the transformation toward AI-supported, data-driven production. Our team conducts research at the intersection of industrial robotics and modern AI methods with the goal of bringing autonomous systems into real manufacturing environments.As part of your internship (minimum 6 months) or thesis, you will explore how modern learning-based approaches can meet the specific requirements of automotive final assembly, ranging from data collection to the evaluation of real manipulation tasks. If you are pursuing a master's thesis, the task definition and research questions will be determined together with your supervising professor after confirmation of supervision. Your results will directly contribute to the development of the next generation of autonomous assembly systems. We look forward to your application.

Possible Tasks within this Role

• Setting up and commissioning collaborative robots and sensor systems in an experimental research environment
• Researching and analyzing current literature on learning-based methods for robotic manipulation
• Practically investigating data-driven deep learning approaches for controlling real robot systems for a selected use case in automotive final assembly
• Collecting, structuring, and evaluating demonstration data under industrial conditions
• Assessing the performance of trained models based on self-developed or predefined evaluation criteria
• Documenting and presenting results

• Master's students in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a comparable field
• Very good to good academic achievements
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills as well as familiarity with scientific methods
• Ability to work independently as well as in interdisciplinary teams, high motivation
• Good knowledge of machine learning and neural networks as well as practical experience with PyTorch in research projects
• Solid programming skills in Python and basic knowledge of Linux
• Ideally experience with ROS / ROS 2, robot simulations (e.g. Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Gazebo) or fundamentals of robotics
• German or English at proficiency level C1

• Anschreiben + Lebenslauf
• Aktuelle Immatrikulationsbescheinigung
• Aktueller Notenspiegel
• Bei einem Pflichtpraktikum zusätzlich eine Bescheinigung der Hochschule
• Arbeitserlaubnis für Nicht-EU Bürgerinnen / Bürger

Robotik in der Fertigung, Transformation Fertigung, Künstliche Intelligenz