Research Engineer in Autonomous Motion for Autonomous Transport Solutions i Sodertalje

Scania is now undergoing a transformation from being a supplier of trucks, buses and engines to a supplier of complete and sustainable transport solutions.

Are you a curious, dedicated and responsible person that believe leading the way towards sustainable transport solutions would be exciting?

Do you want to contribute with top-quality research and development of future cutting edge ATS concepts? More specifically, do you want to be involved in the methodological development of new situational awareness concepts, addressing the current and future challenges in the field of automated heavy duty vehicles?

At Autonomous Transport Solutions (ATS) Research, Scania R&D, we operate in agile and self-steered teams that work in close cooperation with the Volkswagen group, leading technology suppliers, and academic institutions, with the ambition to detect and evaluate upcoming technologies. 

Your responsibilities
You will be working in an agile multi-cultural research team within R&D. The team is responsible for concept evaluation and software development of tactical decision-making and situational awareness algorithms for autonomous driving. As a Research Engineer you contribute to designing, developing and evaluating strategies for understanding and predicting the environment evolution, in order to enable smart decisions in a variety of scenarios.

Our culture is built based upon delivering added customer value through research and practical experiments that iteratively lead to concepts for industrialization. Situational Awareness is a growing technical area concerned with among other things: comprehension of the environment, anticipation of other road users behaviours and risk assessment.

The success factor of our team is the iterative development and the rapid prototyping enabled by a flexible platform for the autonomous vehicles.

Your profile
We are looking for you who are a team player, attentive and humble with the ability to drive the technical development forward. You have technical experience areas such as applied mathematics, computational statistics and/or machine learning.

Required is;

• An academic background that matches an M.Sc. in applied mathematics, machine learning, engineering physics, computer science, electrical engineering, robotics or matching work experience.
• Knowledge and experience within software languages such as C++ and Matlab/Simulink along with a keen interest in programming.
• Fluent in English both in writing and in speech.

 Extra meritorious is;

• A Ph.D. within similar research fields.
• Experience in one or more of the following: bayesian modelling, inference algorithms, probabilistic black-box modelling, reinforcement learning, sampling algorithms, variational methods, GPU programming, dynamic programming and graph search techniques.
• Experience within agile development and robotic systems.

 We offer
As an employee at Scania we offer, in addition to career development, other benefits like a company car, result-based bonus, service pension, flexible working hours, subsidised lunches and a lot more. I you live in Stockholm, we offer a direct bus between Stockholm and Södertälje through the Scania Job Express. 

For additional information
Please contact Michael Åström, 08-553 519 01.

Your application
Welcome with your application at latest 5^th of November, which should include a cover letter, CV and copies of your education certificate.

• Title: Research Engineer in Autonomous Motion for Autonomous Transport Solutions
• Business area: Research and Development
• Country: Sweden
• City: Sodertalje
• Last application date: 2019-11-05
• Job Id: 20193876