PhD Position - Neuro-Symbolic AI for Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving

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: State-of-the-art machine Learning algorithms used in domains such as autonomous driving or production systems require large amounts of training data to learn reliable models. The cost of obtaining the required training data for all relevant driving scenarios and different system configurations explodes quickly. In this context, your studies will be focused on investigating and developing methods and techniques that are capable of leveraging a-priori knowledge of the driving contexts and systems to facilitate the transfer (re-use) of already trained models for new driving contexts and evolving system configurations.Your tasks:* Survey and analyse the state-of-the-art on knowledge representation and knowledge-driven machine learning * Research and development of novel methods / frameworks enabling the use of a-priori knowledge in existing machine learning pipelines with the goal to increase learning efficiency, performance and robustness * Prototypical implementation and evaluation of the developed methods in concrete application scenarios (e.g. autonomous driving, production systems) * Collaborate with Bosch research groups and relevant external research partners * Publish the research results in academic conferences and journals Qualifications: Education: excellent Master of Science degree in Computer Science or Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or a related subjectPersonality: positive team player who is highly motivated, has an high degree of personal responsibility, commitment and out-of-the-box thinkingWorking practice: Ideally, you are familiar with the recent developments in the field, also you want to advance the state of the art and develop new ideas, and contribute to a multi-national cutting edge project.Experience and knowledge: strong experience with machine learning, familiar with W3C Semantic technologies and Ontologies (i.e. RDF, RDFS, OWL) as well as Knowledge Graphs, strong programming skills in Python and proven experience with machine learning frameworks like Pytorch and Tensorflow and preferably have already worked on GPU ClustersLanguages: fluent in English Additional Information: Bosch Research Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI)Please submit all relevant documents (incl. motivation letter, curriculum vitae, and certificates).Apply now in just 3 minutes!                                                                                      Need support during your application? Kevin Heiner (Human Resources) +49 711 811 12223Need further information about the job? Adrian Trachte (Functional Department) +49 711 811 49397