PhD Position in Multi-Stack Handling and Hybrid Safety Architecture for Autonomous Vehicles Technical University of Munich in Germany

The UCLA Mobility Lab is hiring for PhD students , postdoctoral scholars , and research engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the CEE or CS department. This opportunity focuses on Physical AI , foundation models , embodied reasoning , planning , safe autonomy , autonomous driving , robotics , V2X , and connected infrastructure . The lab is looking for candidates in one or both of two directions: (1) developing intelligence for vehicles and robots, and (2) deploying tha...

Peng Edward Wang at Case Western Reserve University is looking for a new PhD student to join an NSF-funded project on Anticipatory Robotics: World Model and Generative Planning for Safe, Human-Aligned Autonomy . The research focuses on robotic welding , including developing a welding-specific foundation model to predict welding state evolution under candidate task conditions and torch manipulation, and to optimize and plan safe robotic actions for consistent welding quality. The project also aim...

Exciting PhD opportunity at Aalto University for 4 Doctoral Researchers in Robotics . The research team is working on topics including safe autonomy in shared spaces , semantic communication , socially aware perception , autonomous driving , visual perception , and representation learning . This is a strong fit for candidates interested in robotics, automation, engineering, and AI-driven autonomous systems. The post is shared by Farzeen Munir and mentions collaboration with Tomasz Piotr Kucner ,...

PhD opportunity at the University of Birmingham in Cooperative Perception, World Modelling, and Intelligent Control for Autonomous Vehicle Systems . This project sits at the intersection of computer science , robotics , electrical engineering , mechatronics , and control systems , with a strong focus on autonomous vehicles, multi-sensor fusion, visual localisation, and AI-driven decision-making. Research directions include cooperative perception using onboard and infrastructure-supported sensors...

NVIDIA’s Autonomous Systems and Physical AI Research (ASPIRE) group is hiring PhD Research Interns to work on cutting-edge research in autonomous systems and Physical AI . The internship spans topics such as reasoning models , generative simulation , agentic AI workflows , and Physical AI safety , with applications to autonomous vehicles and broader Physical AI systems. This opportunity is hosted by NVIDIA and associated with the ASPIRE research group. The post does not specify stipend, tuition,...