Reference: 11327-2026 Research Interns (m/f/d/x) in 3D Computer Vision and AI (full-time, 3-6 months duration)

Area: PhD student

Department: Augmented Vision

Location: Kaiserslautern

Employment Category: Full time

Type of Contract: Temporary

Term (months): 6

The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is one of the world’s largest research institutes for software technology based on artificial intelligence (AI) methods. The research area Augmented Vision inKaiserslautern, headed by Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker, is generally concerned with the topics of computer vision, image processing, image understanding, augmented reality and 3D reconstruction from camera images, including approaches such as deep learning.

Your tasks

Perform cutting-edge research on one of the core areas of research of DFKI AV:

Open-vocabulary 3D scene reasoning,
Robotic Perception,
Anomaly Detection,
Multimodal LLMs,
Workflow Understanding.

Work towards impactful scientific outcomes and a high-level publication after completion of the internship.

Your qualifications

You are currently an active PhD Student in Computer Science/AI/Robotics

Good communication and teamwork skills

Ability to work independently and present ideas effectively

Prior peer-reviewed publications will be taken into account

Informative application documents including

a cv,
proof of ongoing PhD and
a short research statement describing the project you would like to pursue during your internship

Your benefits

Excellent working conditions with interesting research topics in an interdisciplinary team at an internationally renowned research institute

Collaboration with a DFKI Researcher and mentorship by a DFKI Senior Researcher / Team Leader

Access to the DFKI AI computing cluster for your experiments

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has operated as a non-profit, Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) since 1988. DFKI combines scientific excellence and commercially-oriented value creation with social awareness and is recognized as a major “Center of Excellence” by the international scientific community. In the field of artificial intelligence, DFKI has focused on the goal of human-centric AI for more than 35 years. Research is committed to essential, future-oriented areas of application and socially relevant topics.

DFKI encourages applications from people with disability; DFKI intends to increase the proportion of female employees in the field of science and encourages women to apply for this position.

Contact:

+49 631 20575 3740
Jason_Raphael.Rambach@dfki.de