Students & Graduates

Career Opportunities at ZF

Where do you want your career to lead you? Students and graduates are encouraged to work with ZF during their studies and upon graduation. With ZF, students have multiple opportunities to collaborate with great colleagues and supportive leaders who share a similar vision to lead innovation within the automotive industry.

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Are you ready to join us? You can find current vacancies in our Job Portal.

Vacancies

Trainee program

Exciting projects, assignments abroad, and work with a high degree of autonomy - that is the international ZF Trainee Program.

Internships & Co-Op Experience

Looking to pair real world working experience with classroom education? Look no further. ZF offers internships and co-op programs across a wide range of specialized fields.

Theses

Whether the focus is on Research and Development, Controlling, or Human Resources - write your Bachelor, Master, or diploma thesis at ZF!

Scholarship@ZF

You are an intern at ZF and a student in a technical or business field? Then apply for a scholarship at ZF and boost your career already during your studies.

Further opportunities

Aside from global opportunities, ZF also offers student and graduate programs that are specific to different regions. Explore the list of programs that are available to help you grow in your career.

“I love the daily challenges. They help me grow not only professionally, but also personally.”

Dhanashree, Project Purchasing, Saarbrücken

You want to know more? Whether in development, research, IT, production or in business administration - ZF offers diverse and interesting fields of work! Other ZF employees introduce their roles.

All stories

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Get in touch with us: careers@zf.com

stories from zf

From Bangalore to Lake Constance

Saniya Khan is a 34-year-old IT engineer from India. In summer 2018, she started a two-year period at ZF in Germany and discovers new aspects of her work every day.

The importance of innovation

A deeper look into why it's important to create opportunies for creative thinking, collaboration and curiosity.

ZF Race Camp 2018

Formula Student teams from all over Europe meet at Friedrichshafen to examine their bolids throughly. Most of their self-build race cars are competing in the electric or driverless category.