Senior Research Scientist / Engineer for End-to-End Autonomous Systems

Company Description

The Bosch Research and Technology Center North America with offices in Sunnyvale, California, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cambridge, Massachusetts is a part of the global Bosch Group (www.bosch.com), a company with over 70 billion euro revenue, 400,000 employees worldwide, a very diverse product portfolio, and a history spanning over 125 years. The Research and Technology Center North America (RTC-NA) is dedicated to providing technologies and system solutions for various Bosch business fields, primarily in the field of artificial intelligence, energy technologies, internet technologies, circuit design, semiconductors and wireless, as well as advanced MEMS design.

As a part of the global research, our AI research in Silicon Valley focuses on Foundation Models, Big Data Visual Analytics, Explainable AI (XAI), Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision & Mixed Reality, Cloud Robotics, Data Science, AI System Engineering, Time-series Analysis. We develop scalable, intelligent, and trustworthy AIoT solutions for Bosch products and services in application areas such as automated driving, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), robotics, smart manufacturing, enterprise AI, health care, smart home and building solutions.

Originating from the AI research in Silicon Valley, our Intelligent Autonomous Systems group is responsible for enabling future autonomous Bosch products by pushing the boundaries of robotics, automated driving and automation through key innovations that encompass system architecture and AI components. These include methods for localization, motion planning, high level task planning and decision making as well as systems for making these technologies work on real products by building frameworks that take advantage of technologies in the field of reliable distributed computing. We work with internal partners of different Bosch business units to transfer our solutions into future products. We also actively collaborate with leading groups in academia and industry to promote research ideas and publish research findings in internationally renowned conferences and journals such as CVPR, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS and CoRL.

Job Description

• Conduct research and engineering in core AI and machine learning fields to enable Embodied AI (including computer vision, autonomous planning, open-world learning, and so on) for related AIoT (AI+IoT) business domains of autonomous driving, industrial automation, robotics etc.
• Push the boundaries in (modular) end-to-end perception and planning for automated driving, incorporating advancements in large vision-language-(action) models to aid reasoning capabilities and explainability.
• Collaborate with a global team to transfer cutting-edge research findings to Bosch's operational units.
• Implement research results to solve real-world challenges, ensuring high-quality system integration within Bosch's existing platforms.
• Stay abreast of the latest technological advancements and market trends by attending academic conferences, technical events, and seminars.
• Document and disseminate research findings through high-caliber publications and/or patent submissions.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics or a related discipline or Master’s degree with >= 3 years industry experience after graduation.
• A minimum of 3 years of R&D experience, or an equivalent graduate research background, primarily in AI technologies including Computer Vision and Robotic or Automotive Motion and Behavioral Planning.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages commonly used in machine learning (e.g., Python, C++, Rust).
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and teamwork capabilities.
• Knowledge of major machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Hands-on experience in computer vision and deep learning, with work in at least two of the following areas: multimodal transformers, multimodal language models, diffusion models, NeRF, gaussian splatting, object detection / segmentation, 3D scene understanding, sensor calibration, autonomous driving, SfM, voxel/BEV grid-based feature representation.
• Industry  experience with building E2E systems and world models for ADAS development.

Preferred Qualifications

• A strong portfolio of publications in premier machine learning, deep learning, robotics and computer vision journals and conferences.
• Experience with real-world product development and deployment of autonomous systems.
• Experience in motion planning algorithms for autonomous systems and understanding of probabilistic reasoning and decision-making algorithms.
• Experience with sensor fusion, (visual) localization, and mapping algorithms.

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