CareerPlan

Promotion - End-to-End Trainable System for Autonomous Driving with Introspection

Renningen, BADEN_WUERTTEMBERGFull-time2026-10-30 → 2026-11-10

Core

Researching the next generation of autonomous driving systems by transitioning from reactive Vision-Language-Action models to predictive, agent-based world models with introspection capabilities.

Role type

Research PhD candidate (Autonomous Driving / AI)

Builds

Frameworks integrating VLA models, world models, and agent-based planners for holistic driving systems

Domain

Autonomous Driving / Machine Learning / Robotics

Deliverable

research

Required skills

Machine learning algorithms, Deep Learning, Python, C++, Data preparation, Simulation

Preferred skills

Long-term prediction, Handling edge cases, Efficient training of large systems

Responsibilities

Develop framework for integrating VLA models and agent-based planners; Demonstrate improvements in long-term predictions via proactive simulation; Drive changes in data preparation and efficient training of large systems

Seniority

PhD Candidate, Research