Internship / Master Thesis (m/f/d) - Generative AI for Code Generation

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This position reports to

R&D Engineer

Your role and responsibilities

Do you want to explore the field of Generative AI for Automation Engineering and support industrial research projects with your skills? Then join ABB, a global key player in industrial automation and smart electrification, as an intern or to write you master thesis. Apply your competence and grow personally in a challenging and fascinating environment. In ABB’s Research Center in Mannheim Germany, we target innovating digital industries as well as sustainable electrification systems. We contribute to these goals with software architecture design, applying latest software technologies, and researching software tools for efficient automation engineering. Become a member of our team and be part of our research projects. The following tasks and responsibilities will be part of your role: • Research on Generative AI, e.g., agentic workflows, chain-of-thought approaches, advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and prompt engineering applied to the domain of industrial automation • Find out capabilities and limitations of novel code generation methods by testing them in challenging industrial automation projects • Prototypical implementation as a proof-of-concept (e.g., using Python, C#, LangChain, Azure) • Systematic evaluation and documentation of results and learnings

Qualifications for the role

• Background in computer science, software and systems engineering, information technology, electrical/automation engineering (or a related subject)
• Experience with software development in Python or other languages
• Additional experience in creating LLM applications using state-of-the art methods and tools is a plus
• Curious about new technologies and want to tackle challenges collaboratively and independently
• Sound English skills in speaking and writing required by an international team

More about us

We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory We believe in fairness, so interns who join us will benefit from our expertise as they expand their own knowledge. Your time is valuable, so you will receive appropriate remuneration for the duration of the internship. Please state whether you are applying for a voluntary internship or undertaking a mandatory internship, and be sure to enclose your certificate of enrolment. In the case of mandatory internships, please include the corresponding extract from your university’s internship guidelines. Interested? Then we look forward to receiving your informative application (cover letter, CV, certificate of enrolment, current transcript of grades and other supporting documents) through our online careers tool.