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Research Assistant/Associate - Autonomous Driving

Job

  • Level
    Experienced
  • Location
    Aachen
  • Working Model
    Onsite
  • Job Field
    Software, Data
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Temporary employment

Job Summary

In this role, you design large-scale field trials for automated driving functions, develop evaluation methods, and build data pipelines for driving data analysis to establish objective safety arguments.

Job Technologies

Your role in the team

  • 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.

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Our expectations of you

Education

  • Abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium (Master-Abschluss oder gleichwertig) in Maschinenbau, Informatik, Elektrotechnik, Data Science oder einer vergleichbaren Disziplin.

Qualifications

  • Interest in automotive engineering and automated driving.
  • Selbstsicherer Umgang mit Daten: Statistik, Datenanalyse, Arbeit mit großen Datensätzen.
  • Programming skills in Python and/or C/C++.
  • Unabhängige, zuverlässige und systematische Arbeitsweise.
  • 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.

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What we offer

  • The successful candidate will be employed under a regular employment contract.
  • The position is to be filled at the earliest possible date and offered for a fixed term of 2 years.
  • An extension to a total of at least 3 years as part of a doctoral program is planned.
  • The goal is a total employment period of 5 years.
  • The fixed-term employment is possible as it constitutes one of the fixed-term options of the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (German Act on Fixed-term Scientific Contracts).
  • This is a full-time position.
  • The successful candidate has the opportunity to pursue a doctoral degree in this position.
  • The salary is based on the German public service salary scale (TV-L).
  • The position corresponds to a pay grade of EG 13 TV-L.

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Benefits

Work-Life-Integration

Health, Fitness & Fun

Topics You Will Work On

Job Locations

  • Location Aachen

    Nordrhein-Westfalen

    Germany

About Your Employer

RWTH Aachen

RWTH Aachen

The TIM institute for technology and innovation management (TIM) under the leadership of Professor Dr. David Antons, Prof. Dr. Frank Piller and Prof. Dr. Oliver Salge is a leading institution in research fields such as innovation and technology management and strategy. Currently, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the fields of business economics, psychology, computer science and engineering is teaching and researching at the TIM institute in close cooperation with the engineering institutes of RWTH Aachen University.

Description

  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Science, Research
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Research Assistant/Associate - Autonomous Driving

Location
Aachen
Working Model
Onsite
Diversity
Open for all genders

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