Project Student

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology?

At Leica Microsystems, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where your unique viewpoint matters. By harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Shape the Future with Us!

Leica Microsystems has been shaping the future for over 175 years with groundbreaking optical and digital solutions. With a culture rooted in customer focus, innovation, and teamwork, we lead in microscopy, imaging, and analysis, unveiling the invisible and empowering our customers to build a better, healthier world.

Joining Leica Microsystems means contributing to scientific discoveries and supporting surgeons in making critical decisions. Our advanced microscopes and AI-based image analysis solutions enable users to gain profound insights into development and engineering challenges. You will work on meaningful projects alongside passionate colleagues, driving progress and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

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Project Student Role: Responsible for transferring telemetric data into our cloud, including developing a sustainable, flexible data structure for future devices. The role also involves implementing a proof of concept for reading data from devices like a z-drive and transferring it to the cloud. This software will run on a Windows PC.

This position reports to the Senior Manager Systems Engineering and is part of the Applied R&D Team in Heerbrugg. It is an on-site, temporary role until August 2025, aligned with a Master’s study program.

In this role, you will:

• Develop a data concept based on state-of-the-art data science knowledge
• Combine scientific data knowledge with real industrial devices and applications
• Create a functional proof of concept for telemetric data transfer to the cloud

Minimum requirements include:

• Designing a sustainable, extendable data structure for telemetric data, understanding Leica Microsystems devices and firmware
• Creating a proof of concept demo software for Windows

Leica Microsystems offers comprehensive benefits, including healthcare and paid time off. Learn more at Danaher Benefits Info.

Join our team today to help accelerate the impact of science and technology. We partner globally to solve complex challenges and bring science to life.

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