Deadline:
As soon as possible
Location(s)
Czech Republic
District Mladá Boleslav
Overview
Details
Škoda Design - Creating Meaningful Future Experiences
Join Škoda Design to shape intelligent, human-centered mobility. Our Color & Trim (CMF) team translates materials and perception into real-world experiences. Bring your ideas and grow with us.
We offer three internships, full-time (as required university placement) or part-time (voluntary), focused on design topics blending structure, sustainability, and sensorial storytelling. These internships explore how materials shape interior experiences through structure, texture, function, and interaction. Interns will be fully integrated into the Škoda CMF team and mentored by experienced designers.
Placement Focus Areas
Tactile Structures - Rethinking comfort beyond foam
- Exploring flexible structures and sustainable materials that create comfort while reducing environmental impact
Visible Sound - Car speaker design as visual identity
- Exploring material strategies to turn car speakers into brand-signature elements, making acoustics both sustainable and emotionally engaging
Safety Aesthetics - Expressing trust through comforting design
- Exploring the interplay of surfaces, graphic elements, and tactile details to communicate safety and technological competence in a friendly, approachable way
Responsibilities
- Explore future-focused design topics at the intersection of materials, structure, and user experience
- Develop mood boards, CMF concepts, and design prototypes connected to one of the three focus areas
- Support the team in visual storytelling through sketches, renderings, and material studies
- Contribute to internal design discussions and reviews, bringing your fresh perspective
- Collaborate with designers, modelers, and material experts across Škoda Design
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Requirements
- Full-time university studies or studies at a Business College (product design, CMF, Color, Material, Finish design, industrial design, or transportation design)
- Knowledge of English at a communicative level (B1)
- Availability to stay for a period of 6 months
- Candidates should be curious, direct, and confident in visual storytelling
- Strengths should lie in materials, form, systems, or narratives
- Explicitly welcoming students whose expertise goes beyond traditional material approaches
- Eager to rethink how design performs and communicates in real project settings
- Strong skills in analog and/or digital visualization - storytelling counts
- Experience with 3D tools like Blender and/or Rhino, Grasshopper
- Comfortable navigating between conceptual thinking and design detailing
- Open to collaboration and experimental, out-of-the-box design approaches
Dates
Deadline: As soon as possible
Cost/funding for participants
We Offer
- Reward between CZK 170,- and CZK 200,-/hour (depending on the study phase) and possibility of reward increase in the Student Talent Program
- Opportunity to work with a team of experienced professionals
- Experience working for the biggest company in the Czech Republic, renowned worldwide
- Range of practical benefits such as catering allowance, accommodation in the Škoda Auto dormitory (limited capacity), tours around the plant and Škoda Auto Museum, discounts on software and hardware (Microsoft, HP, IBM), and more
- Possibility of career growth within the Student Talent Pool
- Flexible working hours (as agreed upon with the supervisor of the trainee program/diploma thesis)
- Potential for further cooperation on diploma thesis (subject to agreement with the internship program supervisor)
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