Internship / Master Thesis - VLAMs for Trajectory Prediction (m/f/d)

Job description

We are CARIAD, the automotive software company of the Volkswagen Group. Our teams build automotive software platforms and digital customer functions for iconic brands like Audi, Volkswagen, and Porsche – supporting the Volkswagen Group in becoming the leading automotive technology company. With CARIDIANS in Germany, the USA, China, Estonia, and India, we are transforming automotive mobility for everyone. Join us and be part of this exciting journey! YOUR TEAM: We offer you an exciting opportunity for your master thesis or for an internship in our ADAS/AD – VLAM team in in the field of model engineering for autonomous driving. For the following topic you get the responsibility: multimodal trajectory prediction with Visual-Language-Action models (VLAMs). The aim of this master thesis / the internship is to explore how large, pretrained multimodal foundation models can: (1) provide rich scene and intent representation, (2) represent latent and uncertain dynamics, and (3) generate accurate, diverse, uncertainty-aware agent trajectory forecasts that can be used for downstream vehicle control. The department works on software and machine learning models for automated driving (AD) in urba...