Master Thesis Projects 2027: Planning, Decision-Making and Safety - Cluster C

At Zenseact, we're building systems that reason about risk, predict outcomes, plan safe behaviors, and make decisions in

situations where safety matters. Cluster C focuses on the intelligence layer of autonomous driving, where AI moves beyond

understanding the world to deciding how to act within it.

As a thesis student, you'll work on research challenges spanning reinforcement learning, planning, verification, simulation,

safety assessment, world models, and control systems. Your work will contribute to technologies designed to help autonomous

systems make safer and more reliable decisions.

Explore how reinforcement learning can discover challenging edge cases and safety-critical situations that traditional testing

might miss.

You will work with autonomous-driving datasets, simulation environments, and modern AI methods to investigate how intelligent

systems reason, plan, and make decisions under uncertainty.

You're currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, Electrical Engineering,

Engineering Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.

We value different perspectives, backgrounds, and ways of approaching problems. You don't need to meet every preferred

qualification to apply. Strong foundations, curiosity, and a willingness to learn matter most.

Experience in machine learning, reinforcement learning, planning, robotics, simulation, safety-critical systems, or

research-driven software development will be valuable.

You will work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, planning, simulation, and safety-critical software, using

modern tools and realistic autonomous-driving scenarios.

If you're excited by reinforcement learning, reasoning, planning, decision-making, simulation, or AI safety, Cluster C is built

for you.

This role may have access to sensitive information, trade secrets, and confidential data. As part of the recruitment process, the

selected candidate might undergo a background check.

→ META: master thesis, exjobb, examensarbete, degree project 2027, computer vision, deep learning, perception, self-supervised

learning, world models, 3D reconstruction, Gaussian splatting, JEPA, autonomous driving, Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden, paid master

thesis, Zenseact, Volvo Cars

Our software makes a difference.

Using AI-based technology to create the ultimate driver support, we’re fighting to end car accidents and make roads safe for

everyone. Every year, around 1,4 million people die in traffic while approximately 50 million people get injured. Many get

disabled as a result of their injury. We can do better.

One purpose, one product.

We’re a software company dedicated to revolutionizing car safety. By designing the complete software stack for autonomous driving

and advanced driver-assistance systems, we’re fighting to end car accidents and make roads safe for everyone. Zenseact was founded

by Volvo Cars, and the teams are based in Gothenburg and Lund, Sweden and Munich in Germany. When we aim for zero accidents

faster, we strive to speed up the transition to safe automation. This is essentially achieved by making cars updatable – like a

computer or a phone. With regular software updates, a vehicle can be made safer long after its production. By accelerating

improvement loops, shortening development cycles, and deploying high-capacity software quickly, we can make cars safer, and

faster.

Culture with people at heart

To achieve our mission of saving lives and ending traffic accidents we must go where nobody has before. It requires us to venture

into the unknown, pioneering new technology and pushing the frontier of autonomous driving. While there’s no denying our

determination and expertise, we must stand united to succeed. By fostering a culture of support and enablement – a place of

psychological safety where all of us can thrive – everything else will follow. We call this a people-at-heart culture. This

culture means caring. It means the company cares about me, and we care about one another. It means sharing, so we give each other

energy and have fun together. Our culture is also about belonging. It’s important to feel at home and that we can be ourselves at

work. Finally, a people-at-heart culture means well-being. So, we enjoy the flexibility needed to be and do our best – at work and

in life.

Zenseact works proactively to create a culture of diversity and inclusion, where individual differences are appreciated and

respected. To drive innovation we see diversity as an asset, which means we value and respect differences in gender, race,

ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation or age, etc.