Data Scientist – Autonomous Driving (f/m/d)

Vehicle Intelligence & Automated Driving

Are you wondering

• How can I help advance the development of autonomous vehicles from Europe for Europe?
• How well does an autonomous vehicle really drive today — and how well do humans actually drive?
• How can this performance be measured in a data-driven way across millions of kilometers in real road traffic?
• How do you turn this data into robust safety evidence?

Your profile

• Completed university degree (Master's or equivalent) in mechanical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, data science or a comparable discipline
• Interest in automotive engineering and automated driving
• Confident handling of data: statistics, data analysis, working with large datasets
• Programming skills in Python and/or C/C++
• Independent, reliable and systematic way of working
• Very good written and spoken English; very good German language skills are an advantage
• Basic knowledge of “safety of automated driving” is an advantage, but not a prerequisite

Your tasks

• You design and support large-scale field trials of automated driving functions in public road traffic
• You develop metrics and evaluation methods that allow driving performance and safety to be assessed objectively
• You establish a robust human baseline as a benchmark for autonomous driving
• You build data pipelines for the acquisition, preparation and analysis of large volumes of driving data
• You translate your results into systematic safety arguments and contribute them to standardization, regulation and international publications

What we offer

• Interdisciplinary research in global cooperation with leading automotive manufacturers and suppliers
• Access to one of the largest real-world test datasets for automated driving in Europe
• Unique facilities: our own test vehicles, state-of-the-art computing infrastructure and a high-dynamic driving simulator
• Challenging tasks in a highly motivated team
• Early opportunity to lead your own projects on your own responsibility
• Option to pursue a doctorate (Dr.-Ing.)
• Remuneration according to [EG 13] TV-L, flexible working hours and mobile working