Intel Labs is the company's world-class, industry-leading research organization, responsible for driving Intel's technology pipeline and creating new opportunities. The mission of Intel Labs is to deliver breakthrough technologies to fuel Intel's growth. This includes identifying and exploring compelling new technologies and high-risk opportunities ahead of business unit investment and demonstrating first-to-market technologies and innovative new usages for computing technology. Intel Labs engages the leading thinkers in academia and industry in addition to partnering closely with Intel business units. The position is in the Dependability Research Lab of Intel Labs, located in Munich, Germany.

We are looking for a candidate for a temporary position either as working student, intern, or to work on a master's thesis. Ideally, you are currently pursuing a master's degree on a relevant academic institute and want to strengthen your skill set in intelligent robots and computer vision.

Together with the research team, you will develop techniques that increase the reliability and safety of modern autonomous robots. The basic idea is to run continuous self-checks to quickly detect any kind of fault. The robotic systems can encompass robot arms, mobile platforms and their sensor systems. Especially vision sensors (RGB and depth cameras) are of interest. You will work with industry standard software components like ROS (the Robot Operating System), OpenCV (a popular Computer Vision library), OpenVINO (the Intel AI engine) and C/C++.

Tasks
Together with the team, you:

• Understand and develop methods how to perform continuous self-checks with minimal computational overhead for embedded or robotics applications.

• Investigate how data that is already available as part of the robotic application can be re-used to monitor the correct operation of hardware and software components.

• Implement prototypes using ROS and test them in simulation or on a real robot.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of several self check approaches on different types of faults.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate meets the following criteria:

• Pursuing studies in electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or other related fields.

• Programming skills in C/C++, ideally in an embedded environment.

• Good understanding of the relevant math like linear algebra and control theory.

• Knowledge (e.g., from University courses, labs, or private projects) in computer vision and/or robotics is a plus

• Excellent English is a must, German knowledge advantageous.

Please note that in order to be eligible for this position you need to be enrolled in a university program.

Inside this Business Group

Intel Labs is the company's world-class, industry leading research organization, responsible for driving Intel's technology pipeline and creating new opportunities. The mission of Intel Labs is to deliver breakthrough technologies to fuel Intel's growth. This includes identifying and exploring compelling new technologies and high risk opportunities ahead of business unit investment and demonstrating first-to-market technologies and innovative new usages for computing technology. Intel Labs engages the leading thinkers in academia and industry in addition to partnering closely with Intel business units.

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site.