Join us in shaping the future of maritime transport and inland waterway navigation and contribute to bring autonomously acting ships in reality in cooperatively networked systems.
 
In the Nautical Systems Department of the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), scientists and technical engineers have been developing and testing new procedures and technologies for land-based and on-board assistance in ship navigation for more than 10 years.
 
As group leader of the working group "Traffic Position Systems", your work focuses on the fusion and evaluation of data from different sensors and sources of moving objects in navigation. In the medium term, this should enable the derivation of a clear and reliable traffic situation picture in the sense of networked cooperative systems.
 
Together with your colleagues, you will conduct your own research primarily in the areas of machine learning (e.g. for object recognition or anomaly detection) and in the area of artificial intelligence (pattern analysis / recognition and decision-making under uncertainty). Your results will mainly be applied in the maritime sector, but you will also deal with cross-modal (intermodal) approaches in cooperation with other DLR institutes and specialized departments. In this context, you will also be responsible for the project management of the joint project "FuturePorts" in the DLR research area "Transport".

Your tasks can be described as follows: 

• leadership and further content development of the working group "Traffic Situation Systems", which performs research and development work within the framework of the programmatic thematic fields "Maritime Traffic Management" and "Civil maritime safety and security”
• carrying out scientific research activities in the field of maritime traffic situation detection and assessment, with a clear focus on the development of algorithms for cooperative and network-based traffic situation detection using methods from the fields of ML and AI.
• publication of the achieved results on a national and international level 
• project management
• project acquisition

You will work independently on the above-mentioned tasks and coordinate with the department management on strategic decisions.

We offer you an interesting working environment and place and give you the freedom and opportunities to pursue your own ideas and drive forward new research topics. Be an important part of our creative international team and let us work and research together on the future of the maritime transport.