Michael Brandl

At Cariad SE I lead a team of experts in open loop and closed loop simulation, developing the critical test tooling for the Volkswagen group in the Autonomous Driving Alliance, Europe’s largest SAE level 3 development effort. Cariad acquired the department of Argo I was employed at prior.

• Leading the Simulation Engineering team at Argo Germany • Two times set up completely new multinational teams of 5-10 engineers from both new-joiners to the company as well as members of prior teams. • Setting up team-wide knowledge exchange sessions, professional development, coaching • Driving wider strategic topics, as well as team and product backlog • Still contributing to the source code (C++/Python) - out of passion, and to be connected to the technical realities, opportunities and limitations

Argo acquired my previous employer Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH (AID) 2020-07. • Drove and implemented projects in C++/Python involving simulation and visualization technology, software frameworks for testing hardware, and tooling for testing on proving ground and in public fleet • Worked with developers from other teams, as well as system engineers, across one large code-base to align on wide-ranging changes • Implemented an integrated approach for simulation-reality hybrid testing (patent pending)

At Autonomous Intelligent Driving (owned by AUDI), we make fully autonomous driving happen. Simulation is the enabling technology for meeting this goal - it is important for training AI, but also for end-to-end validation. I contribute by working with - Simulation strategy - Architecture - Functional and Operational safety through simulation - Technology scouting - Partner management - Agile development

Data base research, analysis and visualization of experiment data.