Bosch

PhD - Safety Contracts for Physical AI

Bosch  •  Renningen, DE (Onsite)  •  18 hours ago
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Job Description

Company Description

At Bosch, we shape the future by inventing high-quality technologies and services that spark enthusiasm and enrich people’s lives. Our promise to our associates is rock-solid: we grow together, we enjoy our work, and we inspire each other. Join in and feel the difference.

The Robert Bosch GmbH is looking forward to your application!

Job Description

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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

Additional Information

https://www.bosch-ai.com

www.bosch.com/research

The final PhD topic is subject to your university.

Start: according to prior agreement

Please submit all relevant documents (CV, certificates, and links to GitHub or kaggle account).

Diversity and inclusion are not just trends for us but are firmly anchored in our corporate culture. Therefore, we welcome all applications, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, ethnic origin or sexual identity.

Need support during your application?

Celina Dannecker (Human Resources)

+49 711 811 21346

Need further information about the job?

Felix Berkel (Functional Department)

+49 711 811 92301

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About Bosch

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 417,900 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2024). According to preliminary figures, the company generated sales of 90.5 billion euros in 2024. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. With its business activities, the company aims to use technology to help shape universal trends such as automation, electrification, digitalization, connectivity, and an orientation to sustainability. In this context, Bosch’s broad diversification across regions and industries strengthens its innovativeness and robustness. Bosch uses its proven expertise in sensor technology, software, and services to offer customers cross-domain solutions from a single source. It also applies its expertise in connectivity and artificial intelligence in order to develop and manufacture user-friendly, sustainable products. With technology that is “Invented for life,” Bosch wants to help improve quality of life and conserve natural resources. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 470 subsidiary and regional companies in over 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly every country in the world. Bosch’s innovative strength is key to the company’s further development. At 136 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 86,900 associates in research and development, of which nearly 48,000 are software engineers.

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Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
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Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe, DE
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