PhD - Safety Contracts for Physical AI (m/w/d)

Do you want beneficial technologies being shaped by your ideas? Whether in the areas of mobility solutions, consumer goods, industrial technology or energy and building technology - with us, you will have the chance to improve quality of life all across the globe. Welcome to Bosch.

The Robert Bosch GmbH is looking forward to your application!

• The design and development of innovative safety contracts will be your core focus, establishing formal runtime interfaces to ensure safe interaction between decision-making and control in autonomous systems.

• You will precisely define assumptions, guarantees, and adaptation rules for modular autonomy stacks to secure system integrity across different abstraction levels.

• More over, you will utilize advanced methods of optimal control, sequential decision-making under uncertainty, and reinforcement learning to develop robust, high-performance solutions.

• Using machine learning, you will derive feasibility margins, uncertainties, and the safety contracts themselves from real-world data.

• Translating research findings into concrete applications is a key goal, particularly in the domain of vehicle motion control and autonomous driving, to safely bridge the gap between high-level decisions and physical reality.

• Last but not least, you will contribute significantly to making learning-enabled autonomy modular by design, guaranteeing safety by construction, and enabling verification at runtime.

• Education: excellent master's degree (or equivalent) in Control Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
• Experience and Knowledge: solid background in optimization or control and programming proficiency in Python
• Personality and Working Practice: you are enthusiastic about technical challenges, like to develop solutions in interdisciplinary, diverse teams and implement them up to the functional model; you are willing to take initiative and responsibility; you possess the ability to approach tasks systematically, methodically, combined with a consistent focus on finding solutions and a dedication to delivering high-quality results
• Languages: very good English, German is an advantage

• Work-life balance: Flexible working in terms of time, place and working model.
• Health & Sport: Wide range of health and sports activities.
• Childcare: Intermediary service for childcare services.
• Employee discounts: Discounts for employees.
• Room for creativity: Space for creative work.
• In-house social counseling and care services: Social counselling and intermediary service for care services.

The recruitment contact or superior will be happy to provide information about the individual benefit plan.

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