Put your theoretic knowledge into practice and gain initial experience of professional life before you have even completed your degree.
Who are we?
Hilscher is a technology provider within the industrial communication technology sector. As communications are being developed all the time, we are always on the look-out for students who want to develop new technologies or add new features to existing products.
You will not be on your own at our company but will work as part of a team of experienced engineers who will support you in your tasks. We currently employ a total of 15 students in various departments. In addition, we work very closely with the Rhein-Main University, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, enabling us always to tailor the work of our students at Hilscher to meet the current course requirements.
Fields of study
Are you currently studying for a degree in one of the following fields of study? Then, you are in exactly the right place at our company.
- Electronics
- Automation technology
- Communication and information technology
- Microelectronics
- Robotics
- Embedded systems
- Information technology
- Data science
- IT security
- Mechatronics
Your prospects with us
As we pass on considerable knowledge to our students while they are still studying for their degrees, provide them with an in-depth insight into our technologies, and generally invest considerable time in their development, we place a great deal of importance on offering our students a secure job once they have completed their studies.
This is also confirmed by the number of students who are offered a job.

Practical content
We offer interesting assignments in a variety of disciplines.
Hardware design
Our products are created in our in-house hardware development department. Our employees create the design and put together the circuit board layout. Prototypes are produced, thoroughly tested and then handed over to series production in co-operation with our in-house production.
Topics: circuit design, board layout, test hardware development, power supply, high frequency circuitry and memory interface
Embedded systems
Sensors, actuators, controls and IPCs can be equipped with Hilscher’s own network controllers with embedded ARM Cortex with the help of Industrial Ethernet and fieldbus protocols. We are working on new functions for communication, monitoring, diagnostics and on applications, such as controls or regulation. This means that considerable development is carried out on the platform itself and combined with a great many working fields.
Topics: Industrial Ethernet: TSN, PROFINET, EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP | fieldbuses: PROFIBUS, CANopen | Industrial IOT: OPC UA, MQTT | IO-Link | converters | FreeRTOS
Programming languages: C/C++, Python
OS / Drivers / Tools
Tools must be developed for programming and suitable drivers developed for operating systems to enable our hardware to be used. This also includes developing operating systems with real-time capability. Hilscher also develops opportunities for network diagnostics and monitoring. This results in diversity while also offering significant challenges.
Topics: eclipse derivative "netX Studio", driver development, build tool development, use of different Linux distributions and cross compiling
Programming languages: C/C++, C#/.NET, JavaScript, HTML
Web Front- and Backend
Alongside communication interfaces, our devices also offer web-based graphic user interfaces. These enable diagnostics data of the industrial communication infrastructure to be monitored. Therefore, the backend as well as the frontend have to be programmed, to enable network data to be prepared and supplied to the user.
Topics: web, front and backend development, databases, links to the cloud, app development, edge computing and container development.
Programming languages: C/C++, C#/.NET, JavaScript + HTML, TypeScript, Python
Your opportunities for entry
Your personal contact
for content-related matters Mr Immanuel Blöcher Group Leader Innovation Technology & Student Advisor Email: ibloecher@hilscher.com Phone: +49 (0) 6190 – 9907-0 | for organisational matters Ms Jasmin Boller Human Resources Email: recruiting@hilscher.com Phone: +49 (0) 6190 – 9907-0 |