CSIR Robotics Internship
CSIR Modelling and Digital Science (MDS) unit has a vacancy for an Internship in the Mobile Intelligent Autonomous Systems (MIAS) competence area. The unit assists in the CSIR’s drive to strengthen science, engineering and technology (SET) outputs; develop human capital and invests in Emerging Research Areas, including Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology and MIAS. This position is based in Pretoria and it is part of a fingerprint biometric project and will focus on the software aspect.
Key responsibilities:
Undertake robotics and/or computer vision work as required by group projects during the internship period.
Undertake project work with a team around human motion capture and humanoid robot modelling.
Contribute to group technical reports and project documentation.
Qualifications, skills and experience:
A Bachelor’s degree in electrical, electronic, computer engineering or computer science.
Must be able to program in C or C++.
Must be familiar with Octave/Matlab (or a similar interpreted programming language such as Python).
Good interpersonal and team skills.
Ability to work independently, as well as in an interdisciplinary team.
Must be self-motivated.Problem-solving and solution-seeking orientation.
Must have good communication, presentation and writing skills.
How To Apply
Closing date: 28 February 2014
PLEASE NOTE THAT FEEDBACK WILL BE GIVEN TO SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES ONLY.
