MSc or BSc Thesis / Internship (m/f/d) AI for Intent-Based Networking
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 24, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 22, 2026. ABB scores A on the Alion truth index.
At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner-and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.
This position reports to:
R&D Team Lead - Secure Connected Systems__
Youwant to support industrial research projects and teams with your interest innetwork management and orchestration technologies,developing methods to automate network operation beyond office IT for industrialuse-caseswithstate of the artnetworking technologies?Then join ABB, a global key player in industrial automation and smart electrification, as an intern or student worker. Apply yourskills and grow personallyin a challenging and fascinating environment.
ABB is a technology leader driving the digital transformation of industries toward autonomous industrial plants and buildings.Industrial systemscompriseautomation systems, networks and devices, software tools and platforms, and control solutions.
In the ABB Research Center Germany,we focus on innovating digital industries and smart and sustainable electrification systems. In our team, we contribute to these goals with connectivity, system integration, and applied security competencies. Become a member of our team and be part of the projects and research teams and their endeavor ofdemonstratinggreat resultsin an industrial automation environment andbysupporting withUX approaches as well as prototype user interfaces.
Key responsibilities
The work model for the role is: #LI-Hybrid
You will be mainly accountable for:
- In close collaboration with our research team,you will be developing aconcept toautomatically generaterequirementsfor automation networksfromtextual specifications.
- Analyzing the problem and conceptualizing a solution concept: definea target information model to capturethe requirements. Considerthedifferent typesof traffic andspecifications, which might require different approaches to extract the needed information.
- Implementing the concept: build the conversion concept using existing frameworks. Create a user interface to show,modify,addand audit the extractedrequirements.
- Verification:usereal project data to test the implementation. Define and runan approach to assess the quality and coverage of the result,i.e.thevalidity of the requirementsandpotential gaps in the extraction process.
Qualifications for the role
- We expect you to bring creativity, initiative, and result orientation to support driving our innovations toward new products and services.
- You havea studybackground in computer scienceor a relatedengineeringdiscipline. You bring experiencewith machine-learning technologies, preferably for both software development and knowledge extraction.Afurtherknowledge of ontologies and knowledge-graphsor industrial communicationis a benefit.
- You are highly motivated, team-minded, and able to work independently.
- Fluent English in verbal and written form isrequired.
Interested in joining our team? We are looking forward to receiving your complete application (CV, Cover letter, Transcript of records) through our online tool. In the case of equal suitability, people with severe disabilities and their equals are given preference.
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