Active Safety, First Software Developing Engineer

Active Safety, First Software Developing Engineer

At Research & Development you will be a key contributor to the next generation outstanding luxury cars from Volvo. Together with other engineers around the world, you and your team will create innovative human-centric car technology that makes life less complicated and more enjoyable for people. Are you interested in design and connected car technology? Do you share our passion for people, the environment and our urge to create a superior driving experience? Research and Development is the place for you to prosper.

The Sensor Fusion team within Safety Electronics department is a tight team with strong team sense. We truly believe that our difference in culture, age and experience is what makes us successful. We develop functions in embedded software to enable the fusion of information from our growing number of safety sensors in order to provide the most efficient and reliable description of the vehicle surroundings.Our contribution is of great importance to be able to maintain our position as world leading in safety and specifically in the area of autonomous driving.

As a First Software Developing Engineer you will be a part of a team that work with development in both research projects with external partners (such as other car manufactures, governmental organisations and universities) in an international environment, as well as advanced engineering and in industrialisation phases until the product is launched to the end customer. This gives you the opportunity to participate in different phases and gain a wider perspective of the complete development chain, from research to final product.

Main responsibilities

* Responsible for requirement setting of sensors and environmental perception interface based on the needs from the active safety customer functions in our ongoing vehicle programs.
* Responsible for development of data-fusion algorithms between sensors and map to meet the needs to reach our goal of having the safest vehicles that will not crash or fatally injure any one in 2020
* Performance evaluation of different fusion concepts for sensors and map
* Performance evaluation of in-vehicle-integrated sensors and map
* Assist in integration of new sensor configurations and adaption to new sensor interfaces and data logging
* Algorithm development in C and Matlab Embedded Coder for data fusion
* Performance evaluation/participation in evaluation of fusion algorithms in by testing in vehicle on our test track and on bench
* Evaluation of implemented fusion concepts towards reference sensors and ideal sensors (SIL/MIL environments)
* Requirement definition and documentation to enable testmethod development and verification

Required qualifications

* M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electronics, Mechatronics (Z), Physics or equivalent
* Experience in developing Signal processing algorithms for data fusion
* Education and deeper knowledge within the following areas will be meritorious:
* Signal processing, Data fusion, tracking, estimation theory, sensors and sensor modelling, mathematical statistics, map and positioning techniques is meritorious
* Experience in programming in C/C++ or Matlab and in implementing filters and algorithms in these languages
* Experience from work with sensorfusion/tracking using data from different types of sensors such as radars, cameras, stero camera, lidars and map
* Experience from SW development and the applicable development processes used to quality assure developed SW

Personal qualities

* Inclusiveness
* Courage
* Integrity
* Personal energy
* You are talented in planning and leading your own and other's efforts
* You are able and willing to lead development efforts, with a strong delivery orientation
* You are open to change and new points of view, strong in cooperation with other team members
* You understand and actively work to achieve a strong network within your field of operation. This is something that is very important in your daily work in the project teams you are a part of

About Volvo Car Group

The future belongs to those who are empowered by a great idea and have the ability to carry it out. At Volvo Car Group, our vision is clear: "To be the world's most progressive and desired premium car brand". And we believe our global success will be driven by making life less complicated for people, while strengthening our commitment to safety, quality and the environment. We have bold targets when it comes to innovation, sales and customer satisfaction and to make this happen, we need talented people onboard. People with passion, energy, business sense and the drive to innovate. People that want to create the next generation Volvo cars in a global, dynamic and respectful environment. We will support you to reach your full potential. Join us on this exciting journey into the future.

Contact
In this recruitment process we are collaborating with Randstad Professionals. If you have any questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact the responsible recruitment consultant Nadja Bergman at +46 729889828 or by e-mail nadja.bergman@randstad.se.
Interviews will be held continuously. To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via the link below as soon as possible but no later than the 12th of June, 2015.