Self Driving Car Engineer Deep Dive… – Paysa – Medium

It only seems like the world was wrapping its head around the on-demand model for mobility and now the autonomous and self driving car technology is making the future a present reality. Both these sea change events have caught the traditional automotive manufacturers completely off guard and has forced them to buy their way into this highly, niche/technical growth market that will power the future of the automotive/mobility industry. To start with, what are the skill sets that employers are looking in engineers to help define and power self driving car technology. Figure 2. Top Core Computer Science Skills and % of Time Cited in Self Driving Car Technology Job Descriptions Figure 3. Top Computer Science Related Skills and % of Time Cited in Self Driving Car Technology Job Descriptions Inspection of Figures 1–3 illustrate the highly technical nature of skills needed to interpret the physical world, distill it into a digitally interpretable entity and react to it with an always changing "policy" (reinforcement learning speak) all in real time to enable self driving cars to navigate the world safely. Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and techniques within the field, notably deep learning, computer vision and robotics typically involve years of study to master the field resulting with many engineers holding advanced degrees.