Thesis Worker - Towards Trustworthy Agentic Software Development for Automotive C++ Systems

30 hp - Towards Trustworthy Agentic Software Development for Automotive C++ Systems

Introduction

Thesis work is an excellent way to get closer to TRATON/Scania and build relationships for the future. Many of today's employees began their career with their degree project.

Background

Recent advances in Agentic AI have enabled software development workflows where AI-based agents can decompose requirements, implement software, generate tests, perform reviews, and deliver complete code changes. While these capabilities demonstrate significant potential for improving engineering productivity, the automotive industry faces a fundamental challenge: how trust can be established in software produced by such systems. For safety-critical and quality-critical software, organizations must be able to assess whether generated software meets expectations regarding quality, maintainability, robustness, safety, security, traceability, and compliance with engineering standards and processes.

Objective

Investigate methods for assessing and increasing confidence in software developed through agentic AI workflows and develop or evaluate a methodology, framework, or prototype that contributes evidence towards assessing the trustworthiness of generated software in an automotive software context.

Job description

The student will conduct a literature review, analyze factors influencing trust in AI-generated software, investigate suitable assurance mechanisms, quality gates or confidence metrics, develop a prototype or proof-of-concept, and evaluate the approach using representative automotive software development tasks. The exact scope will be defined together with the supervisor and may focus on topics such as software quality, verification and validation, safety, cybersecurity, traceability, explainability, trust metrics, or assurance frameworks.

Education/program/focus

M.Sc. students in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Systems, Cybersecurity, Functional Safety, or related fields.

Number of students: 1-2

Start date for the thesis work: According to agreement

Estimated time required: 20 weeks (30 hp)

Contact persons and supervisors

Alexander Axelsson, Associate Senior Engineer, Traton
Alexander.x.axelsson@scania.com

Application:

Your application must include a CV, personal letter and transcript of grades.

A background check might be conducted for this position. We are conducting interviews continuously and may close the recruitment earlier than the date specified.