Fraunhofer IIS

Machine Learning Engineer

• Do you want to gain experience programming robotic arms and deploying machine learning models in simulation and on real hardware?
• Manufacturing processes are the subject of a large body of current research in robotics.
• In modern production, roughly 50% of time and 30% of costs in the overall production cycle are spent on assembly.
• Robots offer an ideal solution for repetitive assembly tasks and are already widely used in highly efficient industrial production.
• A key challenge is automated manufacturing under uncertainties in part poses and geometries, which we address using machine learning methods.
• Transfer of real manufacturing tasks into simulation as digital twins
• Automated generation of large datasets through augmentation
• Training (Reinforcement/Imitation Learning) of large base models (Vision–Language–Action) using simulation and real-world data
• Transferring resulting policies from simulation to real robot hardware (Sim2Real transfer)
• Investigating discrepancies between system behavior in simulation and reality (Sim2Real gap) based on different system dynamics, sensor noise, contact modeling, and calibration errors
• Adapting the simulation and implementing methods to increase the robustness of Sim2Real transfer

Intern/Thesis – Simulation and Machine Learning in Robotics

Artificial Intelligence

• Conduct a comprehensive literature review on generative models applied to the physical layer of communication.
• Design and implement generative AI–based transmission schemes (e.g., using VAE, GAN, or diffusion models).
• Evaluate the performance of these schemes against conventional digital baselines in terms of distortion, reliability, and efficiency.

Intern, Master's Thesis – Gen-AI for Joint Source and Channel Coding of Short Multimedia Packets

Procurement

• Responsible for procuring goods, works, and services in compliance with public procurement law.
• Advise staff on all matters related to purchasing and procurement.
• Manage and support tendering/procurement procedures in SAP.
• Communicate and negotiate with bidders, including in an international context, in German and English.
• Review and evaluate submitted bids in collaboration with the scientific departments.

Procurement Specialist, all genders – Research Institute

Product Designer

• You develop the digital interfaces used to manage our research and industrial projects.
• You design and prototype web-based dashboards, reports, and interfaces that allow project teams to analyze effort, time, and project data.
• You talk to users (project managers, engineers, scientists), understand their workflows, and translate these into clear, intuitive interfaces.
• You create UX concepts for web-based reporting and dashboard solutions.
• You build prototypes, e.g. with Figma, Adobe XD, or comparable tools.
• You implement prototypes as interactive web applications.
• You visualize project and effort data from databases in an understandable and appealing way.
• You iteratively improve solutions based on user feedback and usability tests.

Working Student – UX, Web Design, Prototyping for Project Management

Project Manager

• You will support our project managers in project execution, e.g., through resource planning, preparation and facilitation of project meetings, structuring, and knowledge retention
• You will update and maintain project data and information on our platforms
• You will ensure that project results are presented externally
• You will assist with administrative tasks related to your area of responsibility

Working Student – Project Management Support

• Unterstützung der Projektleitenden bei der Projektdurchführung, z.B. durch Ressourcenplanung, Vorbereitung und Durchführung von Projektmeetings, Strukturierung und Wissenssicherung.
• Aktualisierung und Pflege von Projektdaten und Informationen auf den Plattformen.
• Sicherstellung, dass Projektergebnisse im Außenraum dargestellt werden.
• Unterstützung bei administrativen Aufgaben, die an Deinen Tätigkeitsbereich angrenzen.

Werkstudent*in – Unterstützung im Projektmanagement

Business Development Rep

• Du unterstützt uns bei der Akquise
• Du aktualisierst und pflegst Daten und Informationen zu Kunden und Akquise-Vorgängen auf unseren Plattformen
• Du hilfst bei der Erarbeitung eines Produktportfolios oder bringst eigene Ideen ein, wie wir unsere Kommunikation mit Kunden gewinnbringend gestalten können
• Du hilfst bei der Überführung von Akquisen in die aktive Projektarbeit
• Du hilfst mit bei administrativen Aufgaben, die an Deinen Tätigkeitsbereich angrenzen (z.B. Mitorganisation von Veranstaltungen, usw.)

Werkstudent – Unterstützung im Business Development

• You will be responsible for procuring goods as well as works and services in compliance with public procurement law.
• You will advise our staff on all matters related to purchasing and procurement and act as a competent point of contact.
• You will manage and support procurement procedures from the needs analysis (in close coordination with the purchasing coordinators of the specialist departments) to the final commissioning in SAP.
• You will communicate and negotiate with bidders, including in an international environment, in German and, where applicable, English.
• You will prepare the documents required for the procedure on e-procurement platforms and review and evaluate submitted bids in close cooperation with the scientific departments, and you will ensure audit-proof documentation of the procurement file.
• Together with the institute's legal contacts and central procurement, you will ensure legally secure institute procurement.

Purchaser – Research Institute

• You will investigate the feasibility of a price forecast for a commodity such as aluminum, scrap, or similar materials.
• You will work on a concrete data analytics project including data collection, data preprocessing, model development, and evaluation.
• You will learn to apply modern methods such as neural networks to develop forecasting models.

Master's Thesis – Commodity Price Forecasting with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

• You support our project managers in project execution, e.g., through resource planning, structuring and knowledge retention within teams and across the department
• You update and maintain project data and information on our platforms
• You ensure that completed acquisitions are turned into successful projects
• You assist with administrative tasks related to your area of responsibility (e.g., co-organizing events, etc.)

Working Student — Multi-Project Management Support

• Support planning and organizing research projects in the field of Human–AI Interaction
• Design and create questionnaires, workshop concepts, interview guides, and presentations of findings
• Assist in conducting interviews and workshops
• Analyze research results qualitatively and quantitatively and assist with documentation
• Prepare data for visualizations and contribute to interactive dashboards and reports

Working Student – Human–AI Interaction

Engineer

• You conceive and develop methods and chiplet components for the complex hardware of tomorrow
• You contribute innovative ideas that improve the design of heterogeneous electronic systems in multiple ways
• Development and implementation of tool flows for the heterogeneous integration of components in advanced packages
• Support system/technology co-optimization (STCO) with tools across the entire design process
• Connect and integrate design tools from leading vendors to enable an end-to-end design flow
• Implement co-design and co-verification processes for mixed-signal designs and Chiplet RDL (Redistribution Layer) design in close collaboration with development engineers

Engineer for Heterogeneous Integration and Tool Development

• You conceptualize and develop methods and chiplet components for the complex hardware of tomorrow
• You contribute innovative ideas that improve the design of heterogeneous electronic systems
• You support pilot users from industry and research in rapid prototype development
• You adapt and combine existing IPs to realize functional chiplet components
• Design, verification and implementation of components using hardware description languages (HDL)

Engineer – Universal Components, Chiplet Integration

Marketing

• Proaktive Unterstützung der Geschäftsbereiche im Akquisitionsprozess von neuen und Bestandskunden
• Eigenverantwortliche Entwicklung von Maßnahmenportfolios zur Kundenansprache
• Vorbereitung, Begleitung und Nachbereitung von Kundenterminen
• Erstellung von aussagekräftigem Präsentationsmaterial , wie Kundenpräsentationen, Kundenmailings, Texten zu Fachthemen für verschiedene Publikationen
• Planung, Organisation und Begleitung von Messen und (Inhouse-)Veranstaltungen
• Erstellung von Kundenangeboten sowie Mit-Verhandlung von Verträgen und Geheimhaltungsvereinbarungen unter kaufmännisch-rechtlichen Aspekten in Zusammenarbeit mit den fachlich Verantwortlichen und der Rechtsabteilung
• Mitarbeit bei der Pflege und Betreuung des CRM-Systems (SAP Sales Cloud)

Marketing Manager – Ansprechpartner Vertragsangelegenheiten

• You are responsible for the procurement of goods as well as works and services in compliance with public procurement law.
• You advise our employees on all matters related to purchasing and procurement and act as a competent point of contact.
• You manage and accompany procurement procedures from requirements analysis to final commissioning in SAP.
• You communicate and negotiate with bidders, including in an international environment, in German and, if necessary, English.
• You provide the documentation required for procedures on e-procurement platforms and review and evaluate submitted bids in close cooperation with the scientific departments.
• Together with the institute’s legal contacts, you ensure a legally compliant procurement process for the institute.