Automotive Urban Planning Researcher

Cognizant is a large IT Consulting Firm that leverages modern technologies to transform a variety of Business Operations. We are searching for an Automotive Urban Planning Researcher that will responsible for researching automotive data points in the area related to auto trends, speed limits, and other critical pieces of information. This person will be leveraged to improve freshness and accuracy of all Auto data attributes. We need someone that can become a Local Expert that will become knowledgeable of local conditions, policies, and country wide changes to proactively build a pipeline of potential real word changes. This is a remote role, but all applicants must live in the Atlanta area to conduct field work.

Role Responsibilities

• Below are the set of responsibilities that this team would be required to perform:
  • Do Market research around trends in Auto industry
  • P0: Speed limits, EVCS
  • P1: other ADAS
• Work with the policy team on the policy creation and provide local context as needed.
• Do meta Quality Checks and random checks to figure out quality issues
• Create a country metric for quality and conduct in-country drives to provide feedback and data to client working groups.
• Be an owner for the city for queries from any other team as well for other basemap features other than Transit.
• Curate region-specific implicit/statutory speed limits and rules (for e.g., arterials in a town should be 20 vs a state-wide rule of 30)
• Research news articles, notices from govt./highway construction/other agencies, when there are scheduled maintenance/repair
• Identifying edge cases (like unique sign variations, urban area polygon logic, etc.) that might get missed. Similarly, identifying gaps in algorithms.
• Providing inputs to prioritize issues more proactively, and with local knowledge (i.e. which missing signs are causing the most problems, what errors are most egregious for users).
• Support proactive outreach with govt. and transit authorities to understand upcoming changes, systematic issues with our data, etc... (To be disambiguated with Outreach and Partnerships, who will own data collection/feeds)
• Support the partnerships and other outreach teams in local knowledge and context as needed.
• Consult on all sign types to provide local context and understanding and interpretations of various road signs.
• Assist with quality assurance and country certification processes to ensure that the highest quality level is reached and maintained in the assigned country.

Desired Skills & Experience

• At least a High School diploma or equivalent is required
• 3+ years of experience in the automotive industry or Urban planning, Traffics/ Transit/ Signals/ Signages
• Strong understanding of market research methodologies and techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical, excellent attention to detail and problem-solving skills

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship now or at any time in the future.