Internship - Programming & Automation

The role

You will build the software for robotic test and automation infrastructure. This involves driving a robotic arm on a linear rail to capture reliable calibration data.

What you will do

• Build the robot control layer by driving the arm through its SDK and coordinating the linear rail
• Design pose generation informed by the calibration problem
• Manage timing and synchronisation between the robot, cameras, and captured data
• Gate data quality at capture time
• Close the loop with the existing calibration pipeline
• Package captures with metadata for reproducibility
• Build a simple operator-facing workflow
• Work closely with the mechanical intern

Required qualifications

• Enrolled in a relevant study program (Robotics, Computer Science, Computational Science and Engineering, Mechatronics, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or similar)
• Strong programming skills, Python at minimum
• Comfortable with 3D geometry: rigid transforms, rotation representations, coordinate frames
• Interested in robot programming specifically: motion, reachability, collisions, repeatability
• Understand how camera calibration works to reason about dataset quality
• Worked with real sensors and real robots
• Write code that another engineer can pick up and extend
• Comfortable taking responsibility for software that moves physical hardware
• Independent, curious, organized, and resourceful
• Comfortable with Linux
• English proficiency
• Organized and proactive working style

Nice to have

• C++
• ROS 2, MoveIt 2, tf2, and motion planning in practice
• Experience with industrial or collaborative arm SDKs (UFactory / xArm, UR, Franka)
• Hands-on camera calibration experience: OpenCV, Kalibr, ChArUco or AprilTag targets, hand-eye calibration
• Multi-camera rigs
• Machine vision cameras: triggering and synchronisation, GenICam, exposure control, rolling versus global shutter
• Coverage or observability reasoning
• Simulation environments (Gazebo, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo)
• Docker, CI, and the habit of writing tests before you need them
• Experience turning a research script into something an operator can actually use

Benefits

• 1000 euro monthly compensation
• 10 vacation days during the internship period
• Flexible working hours
• Option to work from home 2 days per week where practical
• Direct and significant influence on highly innovative products
• Opportunity to work close to the hardware and the product
• Full ownership of a self-contained system
• Team environment where practical experimentation, learning, and ownership are expected

Before you apply

• WE CANNOT PROVIDE VISA SPONSORSHIP
• Include links, repositories, or writeups that show what you build (GitHub, robot projects, etc.)

About the company

Fiducial is a young but fast-growing deep-tech start-up developing software for advanced onboard UAV situational awareness in military applications. The team consists of engineers passionate about technology, working at the intersection of innovation and deployment.