Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Artificial Intelligence

• Support the Human-AI Interaction team on practice-oriented projects with industry or research partners
• Develop complex experimental setups and demonstrators for testing humanoid robots in human-centered environments
• Choose and work on one of five thesis focus topics: multi-agent orchestration, sim-to-real transfer, imitation learning, teleoperated monitoring, or a human-AI interaction harness for care
• Research and design architectures, localization strategies, simulation environments, learning models, teleoperation pipelines, visualization methods, runtime environments, integrations, and safety mechanisms depending on the selected topic
• Implement prototypes and test them with humanoid robots
• Evaluate accuracy, robustness, scalability, generalization, reaction time, situational awareness, or safe action execution depending on the topic
• Document research methods, transfer processes, and results
• Discuss the thesis topic and direction with the team during the interview

Thesis in Humanoid Robots, AI – Different Focus Topics

Chief of Staff

• Lead the Executive Office as Chief of Staff to the Executive Director
• Support development and review of the institute’s strategy and research portfolio
• Prepare strategy processes, leadership retreats and position papers
• Monitor emerging technology, market and policy trends and brief leadership
• Prepare and follow up executive leadership meetings, including agendas, briefing papers, decision templates, minutes and action tracking
• Manage the Director’s short- and long-term priorities and run special projects
• Integrate the Director, department heads and administration
• Coordinate international relations, partnership agreements, delegation travel and the Director’s international agenda
• Plan and orchestrate high-level visits by ministers, members of parliament, industry executives, international delegations and governing bodies
• Coordinate corporate communication across press, web, social media and publications
• Develop a common editorial and event calendar, consistent messaging and approval workflows
• Coordinate presence at international exhibitions and conferences including MWC, IBC, NAB, OFC and ECOC
• Monitor German federal, state and EU funding calls and policy developments
• Assess funding relevance, track deadlines and support positioning toward ministries and funding agencies
• Collect, consolidate and quality-check institutional data including finances, personnel, projects, publications, patents, industry revenue and KPIs
• Maintain the institute’s fact base and management dashboard
• Prepare reports, briefings, speaking notes and presentations for the Director, governing bodies, funders and partners
• Represent the Director where required