Navigation Software Internship

ANYbotics is a fast-growing tech company dedicated to shaping the future of mobile robotics across multiple industries. Join our highly talented and motivated team of more than 80 people and work on cutting-edge robot technology.
 
ANYbotics transforms industrial plants in the energy, process and utility sector by introducing robotics to a wide range of novel applications that so far were beyond reach. Our customers are large asset operators and industrial service providers pioneering the use of robotics technology for inspection and maintenance.
 
As a software intern at ANYbotics, you will be integrated in daily software development tasks including feature development, testing and verification. You’ll join a team of robotics software engineers with deep knowledge in the robotics software architecture and algorithms. We diligently strive for a robust, highly performant and user-friendly system and constantly come up with new ways to optimize working with ANYmal.
 
We are looking for a Navigation Software Engineering Intern to join our development team as of July 2022. The ideal duration of the full-time paid internship is six months.

Your contributions

    • Designing and developing path planning, obstacle detection and avoidance algorithms
    • Contributing to development of mapping systems and data structures relevant to robot perception
    • Devising and conducting tests to verify software components in simulation and on the ANYmal robot
    • Analyzing and processing test data
    • Developing, using, and maintaining in-house software and systems
    • Implementing features that directly impact user interface and experience with the robot navigation system

Your profile

    • Currently a master, PhD student or recent graduate in computer science, or related field
    • A basic understanding of motion planning, control theory and system modeling
    • Strong collaborative skills with the ability to work independently
    • Willingness to improve your understanding of the state-of-the-art robotics technology applied to real world problems
    • Fluent in English

Our summarized stack

    • Modern C++ is our main language (for all things robotics and systems)
    • Our robots and systems run on Linux Ubuntu 20.04 and ROS Noetic (soon ROS Foxy)
    • Bash is our main scripting language
    • We have a cool CI/CD based on GitLab
    • Python is used for scripting and for machine learning
Please note that we are only able to consider applications from Schengen-Area citizens (except for ETH and EPFL students' compulsory internship).
 
We offer you a very exciting and dynamic work environment, the opportunity to become part of a fast-growing company and an ambitious team that is on a mission to change the industrial inspection market, a chance to leverage your experience and bring in your own ideas, a fair market salary, an attractive employee stock ownership plan, and a job in the city of Zurich.