Benefits & corporate culture
We value your innovative mindset, thirst for knowledge and commitment! We are always on the lookout for reinforcements for the research and development of reliable ship concepts and technologies. With fundamental and applied research, we at our institute contribute to making ships and their harbours economical, emission-reduced and safe in the future.
Institute of Maritime Energy Systems
At the Institute of Maritime Energy Systems, we provide technological developments to give the maritime industry security for its investment decisions in new technologies and thus accelerate the transformation of waterborne transport. Shipping is essential for the economic well-being of the world and handles 80 per cent of international freight traffic. Therefore, the maritime industry needs reliable ship concepts and technologies to fulfil different and typically unique transport tasks with unique ship concepts.
The Institute's vision does not stop at the quay wall, but considers the ship as a system in a global transport concept with its own interfaces to air and land transport. Our international team of currently 100 employees is working on energy-saving drives, efficient energy generation on board, fuel cells, optimised ship designs, safe energy storage and solutions for emission-free fuels and their infrastructure in ports and on board. Among other things, we work with analytical and AI-based modelling, simulations and numerical calculations and, in future, in a comprehensive laboratory environment. In future, we will have access to the institute’s own research vessel for practical testing, validation and data collection.
We see ourselves as integrators for emission-reduced systems in an ideal maritime research and industrial landscape between the Elbe, Baltic and North Seas.
Would you like to work as part of a team to contribute safe and economical solutions to the major challenges of shipping? Are you interested in a sustainable energy supply for ships? Then become part of our international team and make your contribution to the transport transition in Germany and worldwide!
We also offer interesting topics for student research projects, dissertations and doctoral theses. Find out more about the DLR_Graduate_Program, our vacancies or send us an unsolicited application.
