Master's thesis or mandatory internship student (m/f/d) in information technology or physics

The DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation is dedicated to mission-oriented research in selected areas of communications and navigation. Its work ranges from the theoretical foundations to the demonstration of new procedures and systems in a real environment and is embedded in DLR's Space, Aeronautics, Transport, Security and Digitalization programs.

What to expect

Optical free space communications are an exciting technology under intense development to provide secure high bandwidth communications to all areas of the world. In order to provide reliable light reception at the Optical Ground Station, Adaptive Optics is used to sense wave-front aberrations in the light and correct it in real-time. This requires high optical precision, high performance control systems and accurate calibration procedures.

Your tasks

• Design and implementation of a comprehensive C++ testing suite, including hardware simulators
• Set up a continuous integration pipeline to automate validation for the adaptive optics system
• Architecting the system's logging
• Refactoring the codebase with modern CMake
• Creating benchmarks to guarantee our real-time performance requirements are met

Your profile

Familiarity with some of the following is desirable

• C++
• Git
• Cmake
• Linux Environment
• Continuous Integration
• Docker containers.

We look forward to getting to know you!

If you have any questions about this position (Vacancy-ID 2727) please contact:

Douglas Laidlaw

Tel.: +49 8153 28 4522