The Volkswagen Group, headquartered in Wolfsburg, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of automobiles and commercial vehicles and the largest carmaker in Europe. With our brands, business units, and financial services, we are shaping the zero-emission and autonomous future of mobility. They are currently hiring PhD students in different areas:
PhD Student AI-driven Global Customer Feedback And Decision-making Platforms
In this position, you will focus on developing an AI-driven decision platform that combines customer feedback, product data, and expert knowledge from different markets around the world. The goal is to harmonize regional perspectives, make customer insights globally comparable, and generate reliable decision recommendations for product development. You will work in an international and interdisciplinary environment together with experts in Artificial Intelligence, data analytics, customer research, and product development.
PhD Student Development AI-Native Development Models & Virtual AI Agents
In this position, you will work in an interdisciplinary environment on the question of how product development, collaboration and decision-making can be further developed in an AI-native development organization. In particular, the focus is on governance, security, traceability, responsibilities and effective cooperation between humans and AI.
PhD Student Agentic AI Process Design Automotive Production
In this position, you will work on a highly innovative research topic at the intersection of Generative AI, Agentic AI, process design, industrial engineering, and automotive production planning. The position is embedded in the planned IPCEI-AI European funding project, contributing to the development of next-generation AI capabilities for industrial process planning. The objective is to develop AI-based methods and prototypes that support process planners in the automated generation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of manufacturing process designs.
In this position, students will work on exciting and challenging topics at the forefront of automotive technology, including scientific research on the application of wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor devices, particularly gallium nitride (GaN) transistors, and traction inverter systems.
Applications accepted until roles are filled.
