Working Student / Intern — Driving Functions Software Development (all genders)

Your Profile

You are a motivated student enrolled in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a comparable field, and you bring:

• Multi-language programming skills – You are comfortable in more than one language. C++ and Python are essential; experience with Java, Kotlin, or scripting languages is a strong plus.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle – You know what it means to go from requirements through design, implementation, testing, and release. You have worked with version control (Git), branching strategies, and merge/pull requests.
• UI and software design patterns – You understand patterns like MVC, observer, state machine, factory, and component-based design. You can recognise when and why to apply them, especially in UI software.
• Build systems and CI/CD – You have built software from source using tools like CMake, Make, or Gradle, and you understand how CI/CD pipelines work (GitLab CI or similar).
• Concurrency awareness – You understand threads, synchronisation primitives (mutexes, semaphores, condition variables), and why concurrent programming requires careful design.
• Python proficiency – You can write scripts for automation, data processing, and tooling – not just academic exercises.
• AI as a development tool – You use AI-assisted tools (coding assistants, code review aids, documentation generators) as part of your workflow and understand their strengths and limitations.
• Proactive and curious – You work independently, ask good questions, and take initiative when you see something that can be improved.

Preferred ​experience and Skills:

• A personal or university project with a non-trivial UI: a game, a dashboard, a data visualisation tool – something where you dealt with rendering, layout, state management, or animation.
• Contributions to an open-source project, even small ones – shows you can navigate an unfamiliar codebase, follow contribution guidelines, and communicate through code.
• A side project or coursework involving embedded systems, microcontrollers, or real-time operating systems (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, QNX, bare-metal).
• Experience with Android application or system-level development (services, AIDL, NDK).
• Exposure to cross-compilation or building software for a target platform different from your development machine.
• Familiarity with inter-process communication (sockets, shared memory, message queues) or networking protocols.
• A hackathon project, thesis, or lab assignment where you had to profile and optimise performance – memory, CPU, latency.
• Experience writing or maintaining a CI/CD pipeline from scratch, not just using one someone else set up.

Why us?

• Great company values that we are passionate about and live by every day at work.
• A chance to work on a new generation of Infotainment Systems which will power millions of Mercedes-Benz vehicles.
• An international, interdisciplinary innovation hub which is part of Mercedes-Benz AG.
• Hands-on experience with production automotive software across multiple platforms and operating systems.
• Agile working methods and open feedback culture.
• A brand-new, modern, and fully accessible office.

Interested?

We look forward to receiving your complete application, including CV (in English or German) and a cover letter with the following information:

• Job title and reference number
• Salary expectations
• Earliest start date

We would like to encourage people with health impairments to apply to our jobs! Our building and workplaces offer the possibilities to adjust to different employee requirements.

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Auf Jobportal gelistet am 07. Nov. 2026

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