Internship (m/f/d) Sizing and Optimization of Hydrogen Production Plants

Internship (m/f/d) Sizing and Optimization of Hydrogen Production Plants
Internship (m/f/d) Sizing and Optimization of Hydrogen Production Plants
Mannheim, DE
2024-08-01T22:44:40Z
2025-07-27T03:44:33Z

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Internship (m/f/d) Sizing and Optimization of Hydrogen Production Plants

At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration – combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities – are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions. That’s our story. Make it your story.

This position reports to

R&D Team Lead

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for enthusiastic students to become part of our research and development team of a global, future-oriented company. Join us to learn from competent experts, gain insights on technologies, and get practical experience through challenging tasks in a project team. You will be involved in a project and perform a defined set of tasks independently. Use your stay at corporate research center to build your professional network and become familiar with our company. The following tasks and responsibilities will be part of your role: Contribute to an ongoing research project on concept validation and optimization of plants to produce hydrogen and its derivatives from renewable energy. This helps to make the energy transition become a reality in decarbonizing the hydrogen economy. Develop result visualization of realistic hydrogen production plant projects concerning their main KPI’s (key performance indicators): capacity factors, operational cost contributions, levelized cost of
hydrogen (LCOH) or similar. Investigate easy to understand visualization techniques with focus on usability and simplicity. Run own optimization experiments leading to general plant improvements and developing new ideas to improve the underlying plant model. We expect that you show readiness to tackle difficult problems, above-average motivation to implement and test developed models and algorithms, and proactiveness to come up with new ideas on how to overcome possible challenges. Driving an independent work task as a project team member.

Qualifications for the role

• Master study background in Mathematics, Physics, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or similar knowledge.
• You are acquainted with mathematical optimization and algorithms.
• You are interested in solving complex industrial optimization problems.
• Programming experience in Python and JavaScript.
• Interest in graphical frontend development
• As a good communicator, you have sound English skills in speaking and writing required by an international team.

More about us

ABB’s Corporate Research Center Germany is located in Mannheim, a major German city full of attractions and close to Heidelberg that blends middle-European traditions with a lively spirit due to the numerous students from all over the world. You will receive appropriate remuneration for the duration of the internship. Please note that internships are generally limited to six months. Please state whether you are applying for a voluntary internship or undertaking a mandatory internship. In the case of mandatory internships, please include the corresponding extract from your university’s internship guidelines. High-potential students working at ABB get a chance to become a part of our talent pool including various student events and personal contact at ABB’s HR. Interested? Then we look forward to receiving your informative application (including at least: cover letter (English), CV (English), certificate of enrolment, current transcript of grades) through our online
careers tool. We value
people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory