In this internship, you will drive an exploratory feasibility project to evaluate novel oxygen scavenging strategies for next-generation blood gas reagent formulations. The project focuses on different innovative pathways such as small organic molecule scavengers, storage-stable enzymatic systems, and functional multilayer packaging foils.

 

Key responsibilities include:

  • Organic Scavenger Screening & Electrochemistry: Identify and evaluate small organic molecules (e.g., food additives, antioxidants) to determine oxygen depletion kinetics while analyzing electrochemical behavior to minimize potential sensor interference.
  • Enzymatic Scavenger Systems: Assess and validate enzyme-based systems for their feasibility and performance as effective oxygen scavengers.
  • Functional Packaging & Materials Evaluation: Investigate active scavenging polymer laminates and pouch foils, conducting thorough leachables and extractables testing to safeguard sensor and reagent stability.
  • Analytical Testing & Characterization: Apply advanced electrochemical, spectroscopic, and chromatographic methods to measure oxygen consumption rates and characterize matrix interactions.
  • Data Analysis & Documentation: Synthesize experimental results, assess formulation and material viability, and present clear technical summaries and recommendations to the cross-functional R&D team.
  • Contribute to the objective of the project through driving and monitoring progress 
  • Create/ perform/analyze project management overviews (costs, quality, and time)
  • Assist with continuous improvement of current project/ transition processes
  • Handling mailbox and queries
  • Organizing companywide meetings on project management knowledge sharing
  • Supporting the task of chasing stakeholders to deliver input
  • Support with gathering KPI’s from the project manager/ transition managers
  • Support in the preparation of meetings (booking of meeting rooms, writing invitation, creating a distribution list, agenda’s/actions/minutes etc.) 
  • Translate analysis and data into appealing presentations (develop storylines, agenda’s, slides)
  • Being able to set the right message to stakeholders of all levels 
  • Store and clean up documents in the digital library.

 

Integrated into a team of scientists and research engineers, you will work on research projects in surgical robotics.

  • Development and testing of concepts for physical AI in surgery
  • Exploring how modern AI and computer vision techniques can be employed for surgical scene understanding, synthetic data generation, and robotic automation for surgical tasks
  • Conducting hands-on lab work with phantom or ex-vivo animal models
  • Presenting and discussing research findings in team and department meetings
  • Working with researchers and engineers in a collaborative environment at the ZEISS Innovation Hub Karlsruhe, located at the KIT Campus North.

 

During your internship, you will do research and development in the context of Apple foundation models that power next-generation AI experiences across Apple’s platforms. You will learn what is relevant to transfer results from machine learning research to meaningful real-world performance at scale. Your work can contribute to Apple Intelligence and be shipped to billions of devices, worldwide.

 

Responsibilities

  • Research and develop novel approaches for enhancing foundation model capabilities.
  • Leverage state-of-the-art, large-scale RL methods to improve reasoning and planning, multi-turn conversations, and general agentic capabilities.
  • Design and train agents with tool calling, planning, and API integration to reliably complete tasks.
  • Investigate multimodal foundation models spanning text, vision, audio, and other modalities.
  • Collaborate on model alignment, safety, and responsible AI practices.
  • Contribute to the development of tools and frameworks for foundation model experimentation and evaluation.
  • Support the creation and update of seasonal and B2C tools, including sell-in presentations, product overviews, account-facing materials and trade marketing decks.
  • Coordinate inputs from brand, product, sales and marketing teams to ensure tools are accurate, consistent and delivered on time.
  • Help translate brand and product stories into clear, engaging materials that can be used by sales teams and wholesale partners across EMEA.
  • Support the organisation of key trade marketing moments such as sales meetings, showroom updates, sample coordination and seasonal presentations.
  • Track project timelines, asset availability and feedback rounds to help the team manage priorities and keep stakeholders aligned.
  • Contribute to additional trade marketing projects, retail activations and internal initiatives across Smartwool and icebreaker when needed.