In collaboration with its Italian branch, Jaguar Land Rover has just presented the project for an all-Italian Engineering Hub; the new center will be employed by teams of engineers specialized in the development of driver assistance systems using artificial intelligence technologies, with the aim of achieving the much-talked about next-generation autonomous driving. This hub is just the latest of many similar ones that Jaguar Land Rover has opened in Europe and around the world: the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hungary, Spain, Germany, China and North America, to which Italy will soon be added.
Just last year, Jaguar Land Rover announced a partnership with a leading company in the automotive hardware sector, NVIDIA: the goal is to use the technologies developed by NVIDIA to create a combination of hardware and software capable of ensuring totally autonomous driving. The crucial year will be 2025, the year from which we will start producing only cars based on a software defined platform, therefore designed from the outset to integrate automated systems for driving and parking safety.
All this will lead to the hiring of about 50 software engineers specialized in the automotive world, but Jaguar Land Rover's approach is very agile and modern from this point of view: remote work is foreseen to simplify collaboration with the various offices scattered throughout the world, a new work environment, less structured and focused on the release of a product that is functional, but not necessarily 100% complete right away. This creates small internal teams that work closely with the end customer to ensure that development always takes place in the desired direction.
Marco Santucci, CEO of JLR Italy concludes: “I am proud of this Jaguar Land Rover initiative which envisages a great deal of work by national Human Resources to search, select and place on board excellence in the field of new technologies with the longest experience, but also young talents, just out of university training, precisely to outline , with the best potential, the Jaguar Land Rover of the near future”