Bosch seeks to hire 12,000 engineers in 2015
If asked for an apt description of Robert Bosch GmbH, many certainly would characterise Germany’s largest privately held company as rock solid, but a little bit boring and inflexible.
This assessment might be owed to the products Bosch is most known for – electric motors, electromechanical parts for cars and industry equipment so on. But for some time, the 129-year old giant from the German state of Baden Württemberg has grown into other technology fields, and right now it seems that the company has discovered the thousands of synergies it can activate if it combines its traditional strengths with new technologies and application fields like Internet of Things and Industrial Internet, Connected Car and multimodal mobility. To unfold its traditional virtues in these new technologies, the company is currently seeking for the appropriate expertise. Worldwide it plans to recruit some 12.000 trained graduates in 2015 – mostly engineers, and preferably those with software knowledge. "The growing connectivity in all our activity segments from mobility solutions to industrial equipment makes software a decisive factor", explains Bosch Labour Director Christoph Kübel.
In terms of regional distribution, Bosch reports the highest demand for additional staff members ("associates" in the Bosch parlage) in India where it plans to hire 3.200, followed by China with 2.600 and Germany with 1.200 experts. Three out of four jobs will be occupied with an engineer.
Bosch’s software is developed worldwide. For instance, the algorithms for automated driving are developed in a subsidiary in Palo Alto in the Silicon Valley, in collaborations with U.S. universities. Also the software for the company’s robot lawn mower Indego Connect has been developed there. About a year ago, Bosch launched a subsidiary dedicated to developing software for the IoT – Bosch Software Innovations GmbH, based in Berlin. Other significant software activities take place in Bosch’s Indian subsidiary Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions. The experts of this subsidiary have, for example, modified the algorithms of a video camera such that physicians can use it to examine a person’s retina and detect diseases in an early stadium. Quite a bandwidth of application expertise for a company with such deep roots in old-school electromechanics.
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