Motivation of the work

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 for 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.

We offer

• Young, 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 Role

• Develop cutting-edge 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 a state-of-the-art research-grade prototypes in lab settings

• Research existing solutions in the scientific and patent literature and tailor solutions to our needs

• Conduct and evaluate experiments based on free space and fiber based optical systems

Your Profile

• A bachelor’s and are 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 and smart instruments

• Programming knowledge in at least one of the following: Python, Matlab, C/C++, or CUDA

• First hands-on experience with optical systems and signal processing algorithms

• Ideally experience in the development and integration of data acquisition electronics and scanners

• Ideally experience in setting up and aligning fiber based or free space optical benchtop systems

• 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

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