Product Research and Development Intern

Company Brief: Planys is a deep-tech company developing mission-critical robotic and digital systems for defence and strategic infrastructure. The company designs and builds unmanned systems and advanced sensing solutions across underwater, maritime, and land domains, with a strong focus on naval, coast guard, and army applications. Planys is actively engaged in the development of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) ranging from small to extra-large platforms, along with ruggedised electronic and digital systems for armoured vehicles.

Leveraging its strong foundation in marine robotics, underwater inspection, and non-destructive evaluation (NDT), Planys integrates defence-grade electronics, sensing, and data analytics to deliver high-reliability systems suitable for harsh operational environments. The company combines platform engineering, payload integration, and AI-enabled digital analytics to support situational awareness, asset integrity assessment, and data-driven decision-making for defence forces and strategic asset operators. Planys, globally recognised for strategic infrastructure solutions, is now focused on creating a strong and enduring presence in the defence sector, delivering indigenous unmanned and digital systems for the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard. (Website: www.planystech.com ) Roles & Responsibilities: Performing rigorous literature review, understand the state-of-the-art in the field and compile comprehensive market studies of existing products matching specifications of Planys ROVs and AUVs Development of a proof-of-concept prototype of the system Performing experimental studies in laboratory and in field conditions to validate lab-scaled prototype system Rigorous documentation with organization of results and conclusions into reports Good programming in Python/C/C++ (MATLAB acceptable as additional) Ability to implement controls and signal processing methods in code Solid math fundamentals (linear algebra, kinematics/frames) Effective communication and documentation skills Strong hands-on ROS (ROS1/ROS2) + Gazebo for robot simulation and integration Robot modeling in URDF/Xacro, TF/TF2, and RViz/RViz2 visualization/debugging ros_control/ros2_control, controller tuning, basic navigation stack familiarity Unity/Unreal for advanced visualization (ROS bridge experience preferred) Custom Gazebo plugins and simulation realism/performance tuning