Bardia Shahbaz

Senior Function & Concept Engineer

CARIAD SE

• Project lead and successful series launch of safety-critical modules (hold & standstill management, FailSafeStop) within a global platform software.
• Concept and design of the logical and technical system architecture for highly automated driving functions.
• End-to-end process ownership (requirements-to-release) to safeguard functional requirements and safety standards.
• Primary point of contact for change and stakeholder management to align technical requirements.
• Systematic root-cause analysis and lasting problem resolution to safeguard software quality and system stability.

Senior Function & Concept Engineer

CARIAD SE

• Strategic introduction of continuous, development-integrated SiL testing to accelerate release cycles through early defect detection.
• End-to-end validation of complex driving functions using vECUs and vehicle tests to reduce hardware dependencies.
• Technical integration of ~70 sub-modules into the overall VMM software, ensuring runtime on the platform.
• Technical alignment of requirements between module developers and the overarching architecture.
• Responsible for build management, configuration, and deployment of software releases.

Function Owner, Motion Management

AUDI AG

• Development of the logical and technical function architecture for Vehicle Motion Management (VMM) in automated driving.
• Prototype implementation of driving functions and their commissioning and validation in real vehicle testing.
• Design and build-out of a simulation-based development environment in Matlab/Simulink for VMM.
• Development of automated evaluation and validation tools for efficient analysis of measurement data from testing.

Function Owner, Deceleration Management

AUDI AG

• Function ownership and series release of deceleration management across multiple vehicle platforms.
• End-to-end function development from design and integration through to calibration and validation in vehicle testing.
• Directed requirements, change, and defect processes in close coordination with system suppliers and specialist departments.
• Ensuring homologation readiness and release quality in strict compliance with ISO 26262 and market-specific quality standards.

Function Integration / Calibration, Deceleration Management

EFS GmbH / Wotech GmbH (for AUDI AG)

• Commissioning, calibration, validation, and series release of the deceleration-management module within the electronic stability control (ESC).
• Defect and change management to ensure stable function development.

Student Assistant

DLR – Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics

• Diploma thesis: development of a haptic feedback device for the human foot.
• Internship: concept study for a haptic feedback device on the foot.

Student Assistant

Fraunhofer IZFP-D

• Behavioral simulation of piezo materials for non-destructive testing methods.

Independent AI Architect & Engineer

Independent

• Production PWA (React Native, Expo, Supabase) running scheduling, inventory, and six-supplier ordering for a small regional business — weekly staff scheduling cut from ~2 h to ~10 min; in daily use since 2025.
• Two-stage document-intelligence pipeline (Python, Mistral OCR, Landing AI, Pydantic): LLM triage of incoming paper, then extraction of ~15 financial documents a day into a typed, reconciled database — a twice-yearly look at the books became article-level insight within days, at ~€0.14 per extraction.
• n8n/LLM content pipeline that drafts a brand's daily social post behind a separate critic model and a human approval queue, then auto-publishes to Instagram, Facebook, and Google Business Profile — the generator never holds publishing credentials.

Mechatronics (Dipl.-Ing.)

Technische Universität Dresden

• Focus areas: robotics, hydraulics / pneumatics.

AI / ML Nanodegrees

Udacity

• AI Programming with Python; ML DevOps Engineer.

Deep Learning Specialization

DeepLearning.AI