Internship - Programming & Automation

We are looking for a Robot Programming & Automation Intern to help build the software behind our robotic test and automation infrastructure. Your first project is turning a robotic arm on a linear rail into a system that reliably captures good calibration data — but the skills involved are the same ones we’ll lean on for whatever we automate next: getting a robot to move well, knowing whether the data it’s collecting is any good, and building something solid enough to run unattended.

Responsibilities

Build the robot control layer: drive the arm through its SDK, coordinate the linear rail, and plan safe motion inside a cell that also has a target, cables, and an operator in it; Design pose generation that’s actually informed by the calibration problem, including getting proper coverage across a multi-camera rig rather than just one lens at a time; Get the timing and synchronisation right between the robot, the cameras, and the captured data — this is where automated rigs usually go wrong; Gate data quality at capture time, and retry within the run rather than finding out later that a dataset is unusable; Close the loop with our existing calibration pipeline: feed it data, read back its results, and use that to decide what to capture next and when a run is done; Package captures with the metadata needed to make a calibration reproducible, and make the whole thing robust to failures mid-run; Build a simple operator-facing workflow: mount the rig, pick a profile, press go; Work closely with the mechanical intern — your requirements shape their fixture design, and their measurements shape your motion limits

Requirements

Enrolled in a relevant study program (Robotics, Computer Science, Computational Science and Engineering, Mechatronics, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or similar); Strong programming skills, Python at minimum; Comfortable working in Linux; Strong interest in robotics, automation, computer vision, or perception; English proficiency; Organized and proactive working style; Comfortable with 3D geometry: rigid transforms, rotation representations, coordinate frames, and keeping conventions straight when it is 6pm and nothing lines up; Interested in robot programming specifically — motion, reachability, collisions, repeatability — and not only in the vision maths around it; Understands enough about how camera calibration works to reason about what makes a dataset good or useless; Have worked with real sensors and real robots, and learned that they lie about timing; Care about reliability; Write code that another engineer can pick up and extend; Comfortable taking responsibility for software that moves physical hardware

Nice to have

C++; ROS 2, MoveIt 2, tf2, and motion planning in practice; Experience with industrial or collaborative arm SDKs (UFactory / xArm, UR, Franka), or motion control more generally; Hands-on camera calibration experience: OpenCV, Kalibr, ChArUco or AprilTag targets, hand-eye calibration; Multi-camera rigs, and the specific pain of calibrating cameras with little or no overlapping field of view; Machine vision cameras: triggering and synchronisation, GenICam, exposure control, rolling versus global shutter; Coverage or observability reasoning: understanding why some poses inform a parameter and others do not; Simulation environments (Gazebo, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo); Docker, CI, and the habit of writing tests before you need them; Experience turning a research script into something an operator can actually use

Benefits

10 vacation days during the internship period; Flexible working hours and the option to work from home 2 days per week where practical; A direct and significant influence on highly innovative products; The opportunity to work close to the hardware and the product, with fast iteration and tight feedback loops; Full ownership of a self-contained system that the rest of the company will depend on; A team environment where practical experimentation, learning, and ownership are expected