General information
Company general information:
TOYOTA is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 370.000 people.
Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing and engineering operations.
Team/division description:
Within Electronics Engineering division, ADAS group is in charge of developing and evaluating the future ADAS functions (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) focusing on our customer comfort and safety. Those systems, e.g. Toyota Safety Sense, are using sensors such as camera, radar, ultrasonic devices.
Your responsibilities:
As intern, you will contribute to improve the efficiency of camera-based ADAS function evaluation and accelerate validation by:
• Analysing current procedure of ADAS function evaluation
• Researching state of the art procedures and toolchains for ADAS evaluation
• Identifying proposals for potential improvements
• Setting-up new procedure and toolchain with increased automation to establish ground truth for validation
• Implementing re-simulation loop (SiL – Software in the Loop) to confirm effectiveness of logic/parameter changes to the ADAS function
Your profile:
• You are fluent in English (TME business language)
• You are enrolled into a master in computer science (embedded software), electronics engineering, automotive engineering
• You have a good understanding of software V-cycle (esp. V&V, validation process)
• You have (or you are willing to develop) a good understanding of validation process.
• You have already demonstrated programming skills in past projects (Python, C++, Matlab/Simulink…)
• You can demonstrate some proficiency in computer vision (OpenCV) and machine learning.
• You have a strong interest in automotive and electronics systems.
You have a Toyota DNA, this means you:
• Wish to develop and you are ready to persevere in order to reach challenging targets.
• Seek facts before making recommendations or decisions.
• Have strong planning and organization skills
• Enjoy working in a team, respecting others.
• Have a creative mind.
• Have excellent communication skills
Place of employment: Belgium - Brussels (Zaventem) : Toyota Motor Europe, Technical Centre
Start date: May 2020
Duration: 6 months
Confidentiality: Some of the project content may have to be treated as confidential and therefore not shown explicitly in the internship report.
It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. Interested in this internship, please apply online via www.toyotajobs.com.
We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium)
