Student Assistant

Vor 2 Tagen

Stuttgart, Deutschland Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Vollzeit

for artificial muscle fabrication

**Your profil**:
We are looking for talented students who are pursuing a Master of Science in biomedical engineering (Medizintechnik), mechanical engineering (Maschinenbau), mechatronics (Mechatronik), material science (Materialwissenschaften), electrical engineering (Elektrotechnik), physics (Physik) or related fields to support our research as student assistants (HiWis), and to shape the future of robotics with us.

Applicants should
- have high motivation.
- be pursuing a master’s degree.
- be currently enrolled in a German university.
- want to work in an international and interdisciplinary research group.
- have good oral and written communication skills in English.
- be able to work on site at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany.

We are especially interested in applicants who have
- experience in engineering drawing (2D CAD) and designing experiments
- interest and/or experience in
- rapid prototyping techniques (3D CAD, CNC, laser cutter, 3D printer, screen printing etc.).
- handicraft
- process optimization

**Your tasks**:
**Possible tasks include**:

- Fabricating film based soft actuators.
- Optimizing the fabrication processes.
- Testing the actuators and evaluate their performances
- Optimizing designs of the actuators

**We offer**:
Master students holding a Bachelor’s degree will be paid 12,68€ per hour, maximum 20 hours per week. The job will start as soon as possible. An initial contract will be offered for three months with the possibility to be extended for a longer period of time. Contracts are given per semester.

We offer a modernly equipped workplace, a strongly international working environment, as well as the affiliation to a daycare center for young children.

**Contact and Application**:

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