We are currently reorganising our job portal. During the transition phase, you can find more jobs here: previous DLR job portal
Apply now
Internship or working student in Information Technology or Physics (f/m/x)
Job Description
Req ID:  2727
Place of work:  Oberpfaffenhofen
Starting date:  01.10.2025
Career level:  Internship, Student employment
Type of employment:  Part time, Full-time
Duration of contract:  6 months

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

Enter the fascinating world of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.; 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!

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.

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 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.
 

Your tasks

  • Design and implementation of a comprehensive C++ testing suite, including hardware simulators
  • Set up a continuous integration pipeline to automate validation for the adaptive optics system
  • Architecting the system's logging
  • Refactoring the codebase with modern CMake
  • Creating benchmarks to guarantee our real-time performance requirements are met

Your profile

Familiarity with some of the following is desirable

  • C++
  • Git
  • Cmake
  • Linux Environment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Docker containers.

 

 

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 2727) please contact:

Douglas Laidlaw 
Tel.: +49 8153 28 4522 
Apply now