The center currently has 80 employees.
„We started 2018 with many new projects, in highly dynamic and complex areas of the software and automotive engineering, but the most challenging projects are those focusing on major trends at present – computer vision, machine learning and autonomous driving”, said Marius Mihailovici, general manager of Porsche Engineering Romania, which opened the center in Cluj two years ago.
Besides the types of projects on which Porsche engineers in Cluj have focused so far – developing new functions for automobiles, designing and simulating propulsion systems – Porsche Engineering Romania added new services to its portfolio, which currently includes fields such as Big Data research, autonomous driving and the development of the infotainment architecture.
Porsche Engineering Romania SRL, headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, is fully owned by Porsche Engineering Group GmbH and, therefore, it is an integral part of the Porsche Engineering global network, with subsidiaries in Weissach, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Wolfsburg, Leipzig (all located in Germany), Prague (the Czech Republic), Shanghai (China), Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Nardò (Italy). Porsche Engineering Group GmbH is fully owned by sports automobile manufacturer Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, headquartered in Stuttgart.
According to Finance Ministry data, Porsche Engineering Romania had eight employees and a turnover of RON3.1 million in 2016 (the latest data available).
In Cluj-Napoca, Porsche also owns MHP Consulting Romania, which provides services ranging from application management to process integration to customized developments, since its foundation in January 2014. MHP Consulting Romania is a subsidiary of the German process and IT consultancy firm MHP, which was founded in 1996.