Mercedes-Benz on Friday opened a new 200 million euro ($217 million) software center in Sindelfingen, its latest investment in enhancing in-house software capabilities as it looks to bring its MB.OS operating system to market by 2024. works for.
Mercedes-Benz on Friday opened a new 200 million euro ($217 million) software center in Sindelfingen, its latest investment in enhancing in-house software capabilities as it looks to bring its MB.OS operating system to market by 2024. works for.
Of the luxury carmaker’s 3,000 new appointments to bring it globally to develop the operating system, about 750 were hired in Sindelingen, working on facilities ranging from in-vehicle entertainment to autonomous driving. .
The center is part of a broader effort by Mercedes-Benz to streamline its software strategy from a patchwork approach, to bring in technology from a wide range of suppliers, to control the core of its software offering.
“We take responsibility for the software architecture and integration – that’s our main goal,” Chief Software Officer Magnus Ostberg said at a roundtable.
“We don’t do everything ourselves – we value partnerships, but of course the parts that are most important to us, we do in-house.”
One such partnership is with US computer graphics specialist Nvidia, with whom Mercedes-Benz struck a deal in 2020 to develop assisted and self-driving functions, part of the MB.OS system to be launched in two years’ time. Will happen.
The carmaker has 600 vacancies away from achieving its goal of having a global team of 10,000 software engineers in Berlin, China, India, Israel, Japan and the United States.
“The profile of a software engineer is highly demanding – demand is much higher than supply,” said chief technology officer Marcus Schaefer.
In a survey of 572 auto executives by research institute Capgemini, 97% said four out of 10 in-house workers, ranging from IT architects to cloud management professionals to cybersecurity experts, would need software skills within five years.
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(Reporting by Victoria Waldersee, Ilona Wiesenbach; Editing by Maria Sheehan)
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