Master Thesis - Explainable AI for Autonomous Driving - REF2063F

Company Description

Since its spin-off in September 2025 AUMOVIO continues the business of the former Continental group sector Automotive as an independent company. The technology and electronics company offers a wide-ranging portfolio that makes mobility safe, exciting, connected, and autonomous. This includes sensor solutions, displays, braking and comfort systems as well as comprehensive expertise in software, architecture platforms, and assistance systems for software-defined vehicles. In the fiscal year 2024 the business areas, which now belong to AUMOVIO, generated sales of 19.6 billion Euro. The company is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and has about 87.000 employees in more than 100 locations worldwide.

Job Description

To support our research in the field of "eXplainable AI," we are currently searching for a master's student (m/f/diverse) starting as soon as possible for a duration of 6 months with a strong interest in applying explainable AI to a real-world application in autonomous driving in the AI lab Berlin. The regular presence in the office is highly encouraged.

As the AI systems developed for Autonomous Driving become more complex and transition towards large-scale end-to-end pipelines, inner functionality and encodings become even less transparent than in traditional AI systems. Recent approaches from the field of explainable AI (xAI) might help include transparency levels in these models, yielding valuable insights about learned and applied information.

The thesis's goals can be summarized as providing a better understanding of current AI models for autonomous driving, retrieving failure cases, and performing an xAI-based in-depth error analysis.

Your Tasks Will Consist Of:

• A profound literature review on existing approaches for explaining AI-based systems in autonomous driving
• Implementation and Adaptation of state-of-the-art algorithms in explainable AI
• Planning and Execution of scientific experiments
• Documentation of scientific results, as well as software documentation
• Communicating planned experiments and results to all stakeholders
• Contributing to our active research exchanges in our young research-focused team of students (m/f/d), Ph.D. students (m/f/d), and Ph.D.s (m/f/d) at our AI Lab Berlin

Qualifications

• Students in the field of Artifical Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other MINT discipline
• (Practical) Knowledge in using Deep Learning Models for Computer Vision tasks
• Strong programming skills in, e.g., Python
• Familiarity with deep learning libraries like PyTorch and transformer-based architectures
• Interest in explainable AI
• Confident handling of MS Office-programs
• Fluent English language skills, written and spoken (German language skills are a plus)
• Self-directed and able to work without supervision
• Energetic and eager to learn
• Ability to work in a team and intercultural skills

Please remember to upload your current certificate of enrollment as well as your current transcript of grades and an excerpt from the current study regulations regarding completion of a thesis, as these are mandatory for processing your application. If required, please submit your valid residence permit as well as your work permit including the additional sheet.

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• Flexible working hours / working time models (job flexibility)
• A performance-based remuneration for your work with us
• Qualified support by our experts
• Health-oriented workplace
• Health courses and sports activities (EGYM Wellpass)
• Subsidy Germany Ticket
• Regular interns table, if applicable
• Regular (team) events, if applicable
• Company restaurant, if applicable

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging are important to us and make our company strong and successful. We offer equal opportunities to everyone -regardless of age, gender, nationality, cultural background, disability, religion, ideology or sexual orientation.

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