Are you passionate about communication, storytelling, and creativity? At Cynteract, you’ll help shape the voice and image of a company that brings hope and joy through gamified rehab tools.

You’ll work on:

• Social media campaigns and content creation
• Blog posts, videos, and newsletters
• Designing presentations and marketing materials
• Supporting event planning and digital outreach
• Researching trends in digital health and gamification

This role is great for students of marketing, communication, media studies, or anyone excited to build awareness for innovative health tech.

Location: Remote / Aachen - Cynteract HQ

Type: Intern / Student, Part-time or Full-time

Are you interested in the business side of startups and making real-world impact? Support our team in developing new customer relationships and entering new markets.

You’ll contribute by:

• Reaching out to clinics, therapists, and rehab centers
• Supporting lead generation and CRM maintenance
• Preparing pitch decks, offers, and partnership proposals
• Helping plan go-to-market strategies
• Learning how to build scalable healthtech sales funnels

Perfect for business, economics, or international management students – especially those excited by medtech and startup culture.

Location: Remote / Aachen - Cynteract HQ

Type: Intern / Student, Part-time or Full-time

Turn rehab into play. You’ll help design games and interfaces that encourage recovery through fun, challenge, and progress.

Tasks include:

• Developing UI/UX mockups and wireframes
• Testing and improving designs based on user feedback
• Ensuring accessibility and intuitive user experience
• Working with therapists to blend fun and function

You should bring a passion for game design, UX, or product design—experience with Unity, Figma, or Adobe tools is a bonus.

Location: Remote / Aachen - Cynteract HQ

Type: Intern / Student, Part-time or Full-time

Help bridge the gap between medical science and interactive gaming. As a physiotherapy or rehab student, you’ll advise our development team to make games that are not just fun—but medically meaningful.

You’ll:

• Provide feedback on therapeutic movements and game mechanics
• Help define game goals based on recovery milestones
• Evaluate exercises for stroke, injury, or elderly users
• Co-develop training programs in coordination with clinicians

Bring a strong focus on safety, usability, and progression.

Location: Remote / Aachen - Cynteract HQ

Type: Intern / Student, Part-time or Full-time

Join the strategy team and gain experience in the startup backbone. You’ll support operational and strategic efforts to scale a MedTech startup.

Tasks include:

• Helping with funding/grant applications
• Conducting competitor and market research
• Supporting project management and internal operations
• Assisting in social media marketing campaigns

This position fits students of innovation management, industrial engineering, healthcare management, or entrepreneurship.

Location: Remote / Aachen - Cynteract HQ

Type: Intern / Student, Part-time or Full-time

Increase user-fun and accessibility by generating and integrating generated speech output for 22+ languages.

Responsibilities:

• Find a voice for a natural, friendly, motivating tone.
• Adjust occasional hiccups in the speech.
• Integrate the generation in the team's processes.

Required Skills:

• Strong Python skills (requests, Pandas).
• Interest in machine text-to-speech with ssml.
• Experience working with data pipelines and automation.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions or automation tools is a plus.

Location: Remote / Aachen - Cynteract HQ

Type: Intern, Part-time or Full-time

Guide the user's rehabilitation by giving the mascot character "Blob" some intelligence.

Responsibilities:

• Pre-generate reactions and responses to the user's efforts during game-play.
• Write a script for the generation that uses AI.
• If viable, prepare and implement an on-premise system.

Required Skills:

• Strong Python skills (requests, Pandas).
• Experience working with data pipelines and automation.
• Experience working with LLMs and model transformations is a big plus.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions or automation tools is a plus.

Location: Remote / Aachen - Cynteract HQ

Type: Intern, Part-time or Full-time

Find more therapeutical and clinical partners that would benefit from Cynteract's services.

Responsibilities:

• Scrape websites of physiotherapy practices and clinics.
• Discover physiotherapists and occupational therapists around the world.
• Label the therapist's area of work (e.g. children, elderly, neurological, etc.).

Required Skills:

• Strong Python skills (requests, Pandas).
• Experience with HTML parsing and XML trees.
• Experience with using web APIs.

Location: Remote / Aachen - Cynteract HQ

Type: Intern, Part-time or Full-time

Provide our UI-designers with decisive information by visualizing user interaction with the app, e.g. in the form of a heat map.

Responsibilities:

• Retrieve the user information from Google analytics.
• Collect reference images for the game scenes and button positions.
• Visualize the user interactions graphically.

Required Skills:

• Strong Python skills (requests).
• Experience with JSON parsing and processing.
• Experience with image processing.

Location: Remote / Aachen - Cynteract HQ

Type: Intern, Part-time or Full-time

Start your journey in game development. You will support our team in creating motivating rehabilitation games while learning professional development workflows in Unity. This is a hands-on learning role where you will grow your skills.

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in the development of simple game mechanics and logic.
• Implementing game assets (3D models, sounds, UI) into the Unity engine.
• Testing games to find bugs and suggesting improvements.
• Collaborating with senior developers to learn clean coding practices (C#).

Required Skills:

• Basic understanding of C# programming.
• First experience with the Unity Editor (hobby projects or university coursework are fine).
• Strong willingness to learn and solve problems.
• Interest in how games can be used for health and therapy.

Location: Remote / Aachen - Cynteract HQ

Type: Intern / Student, Part-time or Full-time

Support a research-collaboration to determine which sport causes which injuries. For that, glove data is recorded during different types of sport. The recorded data needs processing and analyzing.

Image source: RWTH Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics (IGMR)

We’re developing an AI-driven motion tracking system for a humanoid hand with IMU-sensor-based data. This role involves researching and implementing sensor fusion algorithms, blending kinematics, numerical optimization, and machine learning to track movements with high precision. If you love VR, biomechanics, or robotics, this role is for you! This is a collaboration with the RWTH Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics. RWTH announcement (pdf): DE | EN.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement a sensor fusion algorithm to process rotation data from a multi-sensor glove / robotic hand.
• Use forward kinematics to reconstruct hand motion.
• Apply numerical optimization to integrate IMU acceleration data, reducing drift and improving accuracy.
• Experiment with neural networks to learn kinematic corrections from the baseline that is provided by IGMR's camera-tracking system.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in Python or C++.
• Knowledge of linear algebra and numerics.
• Ability to identify and communicate technical challenges.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Background in sensor fusion, kinematics, and/or machine learning.
• Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Eigen is a plus.
• Understanding of IMUs, Kalman filters, Madgwick filters, or similar techniques.
• Interest in VR, biomechanics, kinematics or robotics.

Perks:

• Work on cutting-edge AI-powered motion tracking for robotic and medical applications.
• Experiment with ML-driven sensor fusion techniques.
• Get your own Cynteract data glove and keep it afterwards.
• Collaborate with a startup while enjoying the institute environment.

Location: IGMR

Type: Master thesis / Full-time Intern

Are you interested in business strategy or software development? At Cynteract, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of MedTech through your thesis project.

You’ll work on:

• Conducting market analysis and exploring new business models (Business Thesis)
• Developing and improving software features focused on user experience (Software Development Thesis)
• Analyzing customer feedback and providing strategic recommendations (Business Thesis)
• Participating in testing, debugging, and troubleshooting applications (Software Development Thesis)
• Collaborating closely with the product development team (both thesis options)

This role is perfect for students pursuing a degree in Business, Software Development, or a related field.

Location: Remote / Aachen - Cynteract HQ

Type: Intern / Student, Full-time or Part-time