Bosch to Open New Tech Center in Pittsburgh

Next month Robert Bosch GmbH will open a new 52,000-sq-ft technology center in Pittsburgh.

The three-story leased facility will consolidate 140 engineers and researchers, who currently are housed at several other buildings in the city. It will nearly double the space of the old tech center, which Bosch moved to in 2011. Bosch opened its first Pittsburgh research facility in 1999.

Operated as part of Bosch’s corporate research group, the new Pittsburgh facility will work on advanced development programs for a variety of the company’s business units, including mobility systems. Primary focuses will include security and privacy technologies—including a more secure “key exchange” protocol for controller area networks—and Bosch’s Akustica’s subsidiary, which makes microelectromechanical systems sensors that are used extensively in vehicles and smartphones.

The new Pittsburgh center will work with researchers at nearby Carnegie Mellon University on various projects. Bosch recently established a research chair for security and privacy at the university as part of a $2.5 million grant.

The Pittsburgh team also works with its counterparts at Bosch’s two other U.S.-based corporate tech centers in Boston and Paolo Alto, Calif., as well as an automotive tech center in Plymouth, Mich.