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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 robotics.
We offer
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Young, motivated team with a large and active student community
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Agile work environment with the possibility to work on various tasks for innovative medical applications
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Option for internship before the thesis to better understand the research topic
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Modern office culture with flexible working hours. You will
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Develop a cutting-edge proof-of-concept demonstrator for a smart instrument, utilizing multiple optical sensing modalities to enable medical robotics for vitreoretinal surgical applications
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Design and setup a proof-of-concept optical system and detection hardware to translate into a smart sensing device
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Utilize machine-learning algorithms to analyze data generated by optical sensing-based hardware and software
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Screen scientific literature to tailor your solution to drive the state-of-the-art with your research project
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Conduct and evaluate experiments based on free space and fiber based optical systems
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A bachelor's and are enrolled in a master's program in engineering, computer science, physics, or similar, preferably with a specialization in optics & photonics
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Good understanding of the fundamentals of optics and smart instruments
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Programming knowledge in at least one of the following: Python, Matlab or C/C++
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First hands-on experience with optical systems and signal processing algorithms
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Ideally experience in the development and integration of data acquisition electronics and scanners
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Ideally experience in fiber based or free space optical benchtop systems
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Excellent organization, problem-solving & communication skills (English and/or German)
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Passion for innovation and enthusiasm for new technologies as well as motivation to work in agile, interdisciplinary teams