Brief Facts 

Homebase: Hamburg or Aschaffenburg

Duration: 18 months

Program start: 01 October 2025

• In addition to a multifaceted job, you can look forward to exciting career opportunities and above-market remuneration

• You will quickly get to know all the important interfaces that ensure cross-functional collaboration based on partnership and trust

• The global orientation of the program is complemented by a 5-month assignment at one of our international locations

• From the start, we will assign you tasks for which you will have individual responsibility, giving you the opportunity to contribute your own ideas

• Your mentor, one of our KION executives, will support you along your journey and will drive your personal development

Tasks

• You will work intensively at the software development for our Industrial Trucks & Services (ITS), including autonomous vehicles

• You will conceptualize, design, and develop innovative embedded software architectures for vehicle control systems

• You will create and analyze software requirements and define the interfaces for software components

• You will evaluate appropriate technologies and tools to implement software architectures

• You will collaborate with teams from Product Management, Production, Digital Solutions, Operations, Quality and Sales & Service, which are important stakeholders for our solutions

• Another area of focus will be a deep dive of all different technologies used at our trucks to be a key player at the development of the next generation of trucks

• You will improve software development processes and strategies for continuous integration and testing

Requirements

• You have a master’s degree or PhD in engineering, (business) informatics or natural science and are now excited to gain practical experience

• You have a keen interest in systems engineering, embedded systems (cyber physical systems), and ideally already have initial practical experience in software development 

• First experiences with real-time operating systems, embedded Linux, version control systems (e.g., Git) and continuous integration / continuous deployment (Ci/CD) pipelines are beneficial

• You have professional working proficiency in English enabling you to communicate with stakeholders and our global development teams; German language skills are needed as well

• You have already acquired international experience and/or are excited by the prospect of international collaboration and a placement abroad for several months as part of the trainee program

• You have strong IT skills – you particularly use MS Office daily and have knowledge of relevant programming languages, e.g., C/C++ or Python

• You are a team player with strong communication skills, and you are keen to take on responsibility and to work with a high level of initiative to achieve results you can be proud of

Did we spark your interest? We look forward to receiving your application.

For further information, check out our website: Our management trainee program | KION GROUP A