Thesis: AI-Powered Knowledge Sharing for Embedded Software Team

About the role

Movu Robotics, part of the STOW Group, is looking for a motivated thesis student to research how AI-powered development tools, coding assistants and knowledge agents can improve efficiency, code quality, onboarding and knowledge sharing in an industrial software team. The work is based in Lokeren, with a satellite office in Berchem (Antwerp).

Key responsibilities

• Carry out a market study of existing AI tools for software development teams.
• Develop evaluation criteria and implement one or more proof-of-concept solutions.
• Investigate ways to integrate team-specific documentation, coding guidelines and development practices into AI agents, such as document repositories, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and custom AI assistants.
• Evaluate solutions on usability, accuracy, maintainability, security and practical value.
• Produce an overview and comparison of relevant AI tools, recommendations for adoption, a proof-of-concept AI assistant, guidelines for sharing AI-based knowledge and an assessment of benefits, limitations and effort.

Required profile

• A motivated thesis student with a hands-on mindset.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Interest in industrial automation, robotics and product development.

Required skills

• Control engineering
• Software engineering