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Internship or working student in Information Technology or Physics (f/m/x)
Job Description
Req ID:  597
Place of work:  Oberpfaffenhofen
Starting date:  01.05.2025
Career level:  Internship, Student employment
Type of employment:  Full-time, Part time
Duration of contract:  6 months

Remuneration: Remuneration is in accordance with the Collective Agreement for the Public Sector - Federal Government (TVöD-Bund)

The DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation is dedicated to mission-oriented research in selected areas of communications and navigation. Its work ranges from the theoretical foundations to the demonstration of new procedures and systems in a real environment and is embedded in DLR's Space, Aeronautics, Transport, Security and Digitalization programs.

Enter the fascinating world of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and help shape the future through research and innovation! We offer an exciting and inspiring working environment driven by the expertise and curiosity of our 11,000 employees from 100 nations and our unique infrastructure. Together, we develop sustainable technologies and thus contribute to finding solutions to global challenges. Would you like to join us in addressing this major future challenge? Then this is your place!

What to expect

Optical free space communications are an exciting technology under intense development to provide secure high bandwidth communications to all areas of the world. In order to provide reliable light reception at the Optical Ground Station, Adaptive Optics (AO) is used to sense wave-front aberrations in the light and correct it in real-time. This requires high optical precision, high performance control systems and accurate calibration procedures. In this position the control software will be further optimized using high performance computing techniques, potentially including the use of Graphic Processing Units (GPU)s
 

Your tasks

  • learn the lundamentals of GPU programming 
  • benchmark and optimize existing adaptive optics control code 
  • research and report on GPU optimization techniques for AO
  • develop and integrate GPU-accelerated algorithms

 

Your profile

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field 
  • programming experience with C++ and Python 
  • familiarity or strong interest in learning about GPUs

 

Remuneration depends on qualifications and job assignment up to pay grade 5 TVöD.

We offer

DLR stands for diversity, appreciation and equality for all people. We promote independent work and the individual development of our employees both personally and professionally. To this end, we offer numerous training and development opportunities. Equal opportunities are of particular importance to us, which is why we want to increase the proportion of women in science and management in particular. Applicants with severe disabilities will be given preference if they are qualified.

We look forward to getting to know you!

If you have any questions about this position (Vacancy-ID 597) please contact:

Douglas Laidlaw 
Tel.: +49 8153 28 4522 
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