Position Code: BERENG02
Organisation Description:
This is a company passionate about climate & sustainability. You will be working at a young start-up that aims to tackle one of humanity’s biggest challenges: reversing global warming.
This company reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe.
According to the IPCC, the UN expert panel on climate change, we will have to remove over 10 billion tons of COâ‚‚ from the atmosphere annually. This is due to the fact that some industries will not be able to cut their emissions completely, for example, agriculture and aviation.
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Capturing COâ‚‚ directly from the air – is the only technology that enables this to be achieved on an industrial scale. However, today, Direct Air Capture systems are too expensive and time-consuming to build, preventing humanity from reaching this goal on time.
By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting its original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon-capturing system are improved by up to 10x. Indeed, millions of existing cooling towers around Europe continuously circulate massive amounts of air to remove heat from industrial plants and buildings. By efficiently retrofitting those towers, they remove the carbon dioxide from all this air at a very low additional cost. Several billion tons of CO₂ could be captured this way annually, a huge share of humanity’s long-term needs.
Role: Chemical Engineering Intern
Internship Description:
Possible tasks and projects include:
As a Chemical Engineering Intern or Thesis Student, you will be part of the product team, working closely with the Head of R&D and the CTO. Here you will gain deeper insights into a highly relevant field of the future. In practice, you will help develop and validate our carbon capture processes through laboratory experiments and literature research:
- Research methods for attaching polymeric sorbents to advanced 3D support structures
- Do in-depth literature research to identify new opportunities and improve our chemical processes
- Develop and run experiments for the characterization of various sorbent materials
- Help build and test prototypes of early product versions
N.B. tasks and projects may vary depending on current priorities. Specific projects and responsibilities will be discussed during an interview.
Internship Requirements:
- Student in Chemical Engineering or Chemistry (or related disciplines)
- General knowledge of various polymers, their functional groups, and their effects on material properties
- Understanding of phenomena relevant to chemical engineering and physical chemistry such as vapour-liquid equilibrium and heat and mass transfer
- Interest in installing lab equipment and performing experiments
- Availability for 3-6 months
- Passionate about climate and sustainability
- Interest in performing an internship or writing a final thesis
Don’t exactly match these requirements? If you have the enthusiasm and want to learn – then speak to Pagoda about this position and we’ll see what is possible!
Position Code: BERENG01
Organisation Description:
This is a company passionate about climate & sustainability. You will be working at a young start-up that aims to tackle one of humanity’s biggest challenges: reversing global warming.
This company reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe.
According to the IPCC, the UN expert panel on climate change, we will have to remove over 10 billion tons of COâ‚‚ from the atmosphere annually. This is due to the fact that some industries will not be able to cut their emissions completely, for example, agriculture and aviation.
‍
Capturing COâ‚‚ directly from the air – is the only technology that enables this to be achieved on an industrial scale. However, today, Direct Air Capture systems are too expensive and time-consuming to build, preventing humanity from reaching this goal on time.
By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting its original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon-capturing system are improved by up to 10x. Indeed, millions of existing cooling towers around Europe continuously circulate massive amounts of air to remove heat from industrial plants and buildings. By efficiently retrofitting those towers, they remove the carbon dioxide from all this air at a very low additional cost. Several billion tons of CO₂ could be captured this way annually, a huge share of humanity’s long-term needs.
Role: Mechanical Engineering Intern
Internship Description:
Possible tasks and projects include:
As a Mechanical Engineering Intern or Thesis Student, you will be part of the product team, working closely with the Head of R&D. Here you will gain deeper insights into a highly relevant field of the future. In practice, you will help design, construct and test one of our direct capture prototypes:
- Support the development of a direct capture process
- Dimension and select suitable components for the process
- Design a vacuum chamber for our prototype and early product versions
- Help construct a vacuum chamber and other components of the prototype
- Help testing prototypes and early product versions
- Support laboratory operations and experiments
N.B. tasks and projects may vary depending on current priorities. Specific projects and responsibilities will be discussed during an interview.
Internship Requirements:
- Student in Mechanical Engineering (or related disciplines)
- Knowledge of mechanics and strength of materials (forces acting on objects/structures)
- Understanding the physical properties of various plastics and metals
- Product design, ideally with CAD software (i.e. Solidworks, AutoCAD, SiemensNX)
- Manually skilled and enjoys hands-on, practical work in a workshop setting
- Availability for 3-6 month
- Passionate about climate and sustainability
- Interest in performing an internship or writing a final thesis
Don’t exactly match these requirements? If you have the enthusiasm and want to learn – then speak to Pagoda about this position and we’ll see what is possible!
Position Code: BEREN04
Company Introduction:
This Internship Host Company’s commitment is to design and produce automated bioprocessing systems and digitize third-party devices within the cultured meat and cell therapy fields.
Their platform combines bioprocessing systems with an intelligent user-interface accessible remotely via web-app. Their browser-based application enables users to improve their real-time data and process management of the entire bioprocess.
Through their platform they aim to improve the cost-effectiveness of clients process, empowering their biotech innovations.
The Host Company success is based on their diverse team, that merges knowledge and experience to innovate and tackle unique challenges within the biotechnology industry.
Role: Biotech Engineering
Internship Description:
- Working in a biology lab with bioreactors
- With stem cells
- Researching bioreactor components
- Designing bioreactor systems
Additional tasks as and when needed
Requirements:
- Excellent written and oral communication
- Problem-solving skills
- Critical thinking
- Creativity
- Research skills
- Ability to work in a team or group setting
- Leadership skills
Position Code: BEREN03
Company Introduction:
This Internship Host Company’s commitment is to design and produce automated bioprocessing systems and digitize third-party devices within the cultured meat and cell therapy fields.
Their platform combines bioprocessing systems with an intelligent user-interface accessible remotely via web-app. Their browser-based application enables users to improve their real-time data and process management of the entire bioprocess.
Through their platform they aim to improve the cost-effectiveness of clients process, empowering their biotech innovations.
The Host Company success is based on their diverse team, that merges knowledge and experience to innovate and tackle unique challenges within the biotechnology industry.
Role: Firmware Engineering
Internship Description:
- Firmware Engineering related tasks
- Embedded systems; C++, Linux, writing drivers for sensors and actuators
Potential Additional Tasks;
- Planning, developing and implementing firmware
- Maintaining stable firmware
- Gathering and analyzing requirements from customers
- Testing firmware releases
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Interest in programming languages
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong multitasking skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to work well in a team environment
Position Code: BEREN02
Organisation Description:
This Internship Host Organisation is a neural search company.
They build “Tensorflow for search” or the next Elastic.
Their mission is to provide an open-source neural search ecosystem for businesses and developers, allowing everyone to search for information in all kinds of data with high availability and scalability.
Found in 2020 Feb, the Host Company has been recognized as one of the most promising startups in AI open-source software.
Role:
ML Engineer Intern
Internship Description:
Possible tasks and projects include:
- Be passionate about open source, AI and search.
- Work with strong craftsmanship and ownership.
- Be efficient and responsible for problem-solving.
- Play along with colleagues and the open-source community.
- Speak and write good English.
This Internship Host Company is looking for an HR Recruiter to manage their full-cycle of recruitment, from identifying potential hires to interviewing and evaluating candidates.
Responsibilities
- Part of the engineering team building the Neural Search ecosystem in open source (https://get.jina.ai).
- Build integration & benchmark tools.
- Port AI models (NLP, CV, …) into Jina Hub.
- Build innovative examples and publish blog posts.
- Improve the tests & docstring coverage.
N.B. tasks and projects may vary depending on current priorities. Specific projects and responsibilities will be discussed during an interview.
Internship Requirements:
- Self-motivate and autonomous.
- >2 years Python experience.
- Experience in Docker, Bash, CICD.
- Active contributor to opensource projects.
Benefits & Perks
- Multi-cultural & diverse team.
- Extensive development opportunities and an international team of experts.
- Central office in downtown Berlin.
- Free snacks & drinks, flexible working time, home office options.
Don’t exactly match these requirements? If you have the enthusiasm and want to learn – then speak to Pagoda about this position and we’ll see what is possible!
Position Code: PEKIT05
Organisation Description:
This company is dedicated to building a bridge between fashion and technology. Its mission is to empower the fashion industry with affordable cutting edge technology. They have had 10 years of experience in integrating technology into fashion events, products, and building hardware/software solutions for their clients. They are an American company with offices in USA and China. They have developed mobile fashion apps, interactive retail solutions, fashion tech maker kits, and produce large fashion tech installations to experience what the future of fashion looks like through their Fashion & Tech Events. Their most recent activities have been creating 162 gesture-controlled smart gloves for Intel’s cooperation with CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala 2017, developing fashion tech maker kits for fashion brands to create smart garments and accessories, along developing products with fashion brands based on their e-textile LED Ribbon.
Role:
Unity VR Game Programme Intern
Internship Description:
Objectives of this Role:
- Take ownership of features and components of the VR game lifecycle and lead the product design and code elements for version 2 of the game.
- Collaborate with other members of the team to deliver large and complex features on time and to a high standard.
- Be part of the development process and contribute improvements and suggestions, driving the quality of the code throughout the entire production cycle.
- Mentor other developers in the team and help maintain code, product, and process quality.
- Partner with Art, Design and Production teams to ensure schedules and goals meet business and project needs.
- Conduct code reviews and be part of the hiring process for future colleagues.
- Bring meaningful contributions to their product and the entire team.
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:
- Work together with the team on Tues, Wed, Thurs live in real-time.
- Weekly reports submitted for project tracking.
- Team meetings in the Asia Pacific time zone.
- Plan, design and implement with the CEO, high-quality game features on their existing VR game.
- Transform design specifications into functional game assets.
- Establish an effective strategy and development pipeline.
- Quickly create and iterate on prototypes showcasing new designs and interaction patterns.
- Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
- Ensure the best performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications and games.
- Identify process and application bottlenecks and implement solutions in a timely manner.
N.B. tasks and projects may vary depending on current priorities. Specific projects and responsibilities will be discussed during an interview.
Internship Requirements:
- 3-6 months experience with Unity 3D/Content Development.
- Strong 3D math skills.
- Strong C# object-oriented programming and scripting language skills.
- Experience working with game assets (meshes, animations, materials etc).
- Experience profiling and optimizing the game and render performance (GPU and CPU).
- Experience working on a physics-based game project, source control systems such as Git in a multi-developer team environment.
- Understanding UX design process and experience working with UX design team and/or development team.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Unity training program certification.
- Experience using Blender, Shaders, Mixamo, AltspaceVR, VR, AFRAME.io.
- Own or have access to a VR headset.
- Ability to solve problems, research problems and solutions, discuss problems with team members.
- Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
Don’t exactly match these requirements? If you have the enthusiasm and want to learn – then speak to Pagoda about this position and we’ll see what is possible!
Position Code: BERIT02
Company Introduction:
This internship host company is a Berlin-based sustainable energy startup.
They are developing AI-driven algo-trading technology in the age of renewable energies to contribute to the efficiency of their electricity grid. Their team speaks 19 languages and consists of highly trained and passionate experts in software development, energy trading, AI, mechanical engineering, and physics.
They are fundamentally rethinking the way energy is traded and need your help.
Role: Backend Energy Trading
Internship Description:
Your role will be to work closely with their Data Science team to develop modular applications to enhance the host companies core algo trader. Large amounts of multivariate inputs such as raw weather data, solar/wind production
forecasts, and grid balance indices will be your bread and butter. Being part of their Backend team, you will be based in Berlin.
What you’ll be doing:
- Help deploy applications developed by their data science team in their AWS cloud
- Review existing code and give feedback
- Write Dockerfiles, select and configure suitable AWS services and adapt code as necessary
- Monitor deployed applications
- Interface with applications running on external servers
- Work with both Go and Python code bases
- Develop test suites (standard library testing for Go, pytest for Python) for their applications
- Write REST API client applications
What you can expect from the host company:
- Flexible working hours
- A friendly and inclusive team of experienced software developers and entrepreneurs
- Regular team events and continuous learning sessions
- A deep conviction that as a team you can use software to make a significant contribution to the energy transition
Requirements:
- Ongoing study in Computer Science or a related technical field. Bachelor’s degree or higher is preferred
- Experience working with a large cloud provider (AWS preferred)
- Experience with a version control system (preferably git)
- Proficiency with REST API client applications is a plus (preferably in Go/Python)
Position Code: QDEN13
Company Introduction:
This is a branch of an engineering company registered in the EU. They provide intelligent solutions for the metal processing industry, compatible Manufacturing 4.0 approach.
Their factory in Poland employs 50 people to design and manufacture steel components using: MIG/TIG and laser welding, CNC machining and bending, laser cutting. Five industrial robots are employed for complex tasks;Â Robotics, artificial intelligence and computer vision are the three main pillars of their product and services. Their current focus is to develop a prototype of a robotised system for autonomous arc welding.
From a recently opened branch in China, the company delivers engineering solutions and remotely works together with the team in Europe. They also run a non-profit educational project with an international school in Qingdao, to popularise robotics among young students in mid and high school.
Role: Engineering Internship
Internship Description:
The internship can be tailored to the candidate’s skills.
What you will do;
- Design electromechanical parts of the robotic system: grippers, holders, actuators
- Create 3D models of parts used for robotic simulation
- Write, test and simulate robotic programs using the parts you created. The Company will physically make what you designed, attach it to the robot so you will be able to physically validate your design
- Develop simple scripts for computer vision
- Integrate Arduino and simple webserver to control industrial robots
- Document your work
You will get practical knowledge and training on the following;
- Training on basics of robot programming with access to the industrial robot (via remote access and video link)
- Practical aspects of robot’s kinematics, calibration and maintenance
- Basics of computer vision applied for real-life industrial applications
- Basics of industrial pneumatics: main components, piping, calculus
- Sourcing technical products from China and validating Chinese suppliers
- Practical basics of running a business in China
- Practical basics of import and export between China and other countries: WTO, HS codes, VAT, tariffs, logistics
- Basics of accounting: profit and loss, balance sheet, net margin, cash flows
- Business culture in China and the West
Requirements:
- Speaks English
- Able to work independently (remote internship)
- Engineering education (robotics, mechatronics, electronics, IT or similar)
- Proactiveness, positive attitude and adaptability
- Confidence to suggest new ideas and support a small team a bonus
Position Code: BERIT03
Company Introduction:
This internship host company is a Berlin-based sustainable energy startup.
They are developing AI-driven algo-trading technology in the age of renewable energies to contribute to the efficiency of their electricity grid. Their team speaks 19 languages and consists of highly trained and passionate experts in software development, energy trading, AI, mechanical engineering, and physics.
They are fundamentally rethinking the way energy is traded and need your help.
Role: Data Scientist
Internship Description:
Your role will be to develop state-of-the-art algorithms to predict price movements and execute orders on Europe’s biggest power exchanges. Large amounts of multivariate inputs such as raw weather data, solar/wind production forecasts, and grid balance indices will be your bread and butter.
Being part of their Data Science team, you will be based in their headquarters in Berlin.
What you’ll be doing:
- Analyze and model large amounts of fundamental and technical data and derive insights to maximize returns on energy trading
- Continuously apply state-of-the art machine learning techniques and frameworks to large and multivariate data (historic and real-time)
- Develop scalable code/queries and end-to-end pipelines to deploy machine learning models on production
- Work closely with the host company Backend and Product Management teams to ensure system efficiency and business logic at all times
What you can expect from the host company:
- Flexible working hours
- A friendly and inclusive team of experienced software developers and entrepreneurs
- Regular team events and continuous learning sessions
- A deep conviction that we can use software to make a significant contribution to the energy transition
Requirements:
- Bachelor or Master student in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field. Bachelor’s degree is preferred
- Experience with Python, Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn, Keras/Tensorflow, and other data science framework
- Basic knowledge of Python-based visualization libraries (e.g. Dash, Bokeh, or similar)
- Applied experience with developing machine learning applications to solve real-world problems
- Comfortable with mathematical concepts behind machine learning
- Hands-on experience with database queries and handling big amounts of data
- Ability and willingness to work independently
- Reinforcement learning and risk estimation skills are a bonus
Position Code: LISIT03
Company Introduction:
This is a team of IT professionals focused on increasing companies’ productivity, by integrating the best tech practices into business.
They optimize information, organize databases and improve SEO. They also offer web design implementation, tech support, and in-house app development, among others.
Role: Entrepreneur In Residence
Internship Description:
- Assist the founder on all levels
- Market and product research
- Use of various digital platforms to create updates and deliverables
- Support the creation process for new products and experiences
- Support the sales process for new clients
- Explore new business ideas and test them using agile methodologies
- Take responsibility and ownership of your own projects and processes
- Learn and work with important key tools in sales, CRM, and marketing
Requirements:
- Excellent attitude and willingness to learn
- An energetic, go-getter, curious and proactive
- Interest in entrepreneurship & digital business models
- Organised and methodical – experience in project management is a plus
- Superb verbal + written English communication skills
- A strong sense of responsibility and the willingness to lead projects
- Experience or knowledge in tools such as Google apps, Airtable, Notio