Application Engineer to Öhlins Racing!

As an Application Engineer at Öhlins Racing your everyday life involves innovative embedded development for our electronically controlled suspension systems and the opportunity to work close with the leading motorcycle and car manufacturers worldwide.

About the company
Öhlins Racing is a Swedish company with global operations. For over 40 years we have produced advanced suspension systems for vehicles, and over the years more than 300 world championship titles have been won with the help of our technology. Since January 2019 Öhlins Racing is a subsidiary of Tenneco. Tenneco is an American enterprise which is one of the leading companies within design, manufacturing and distribution of ride performance products and technologies.

Today Öhlins Racing develops and manufactures front forks, shock absorbers and steering dampers for racing and street use for motorcycles, cars and mountain bikes. Our co-workers have many different professional skills and backgrounds. What unites us is a passion for world-class innovation and technology


Job description
You will join our mechatronics group where your competence will become an important part of our success. The team contribute to the mechatronic suspension systems of the future that will help our customers drive faster, safer, and more comfortable. The team's success is built on our willingness to challenge and develop each other. In our team, knowledge sharing is a natural part of everyday life.

As an application engineer, you work closely with our end customers where you are responsible for developing customer-specific adaptations of our suspension systems. You focus on customer functionality and are involved in the entire development process from requirements and design to testing and implementation. It also includes being involved in the formulation of verification tests and participating in vehicle testing and system testing on the road. You will also be on site with the customer as the responsible calibration engineer during their performance test.

As an Application Engineer your work will include:
• Implementation in C
• Requirements management at both system level and software level
• Close collaboration with vehicle manufacturers in projects
• Software test and system test
• Architectural work and software design
• Integration of suspension systems on vehicles
• Subproject management
• Calibration of algorithms to optimize performance

We value the employee´s opportunity to flexibility, therefore you can work a few days on-site and a few days remote if that suits you best!


Your profile
The work culture is characterized by a strong team spirit where we welcome curiosity, accuracy, and focus on quality. We’re looking for you who is a prestigeless team player, solution-oriented and who has the ability to turn your creative ideas into reality!

For this position you need:
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Vehicle Engineering or Computer Science
• Minimum five years of development in C for embedded systems
• Knowledge in requirements management

Since you will be working in an international environment you need to be fluent in English, if you also have knowledge in Swedish, we see it as a big plus!

If you also have experience of one or more of the following, we see it as an additional advantage:
• Working with integration of electronics, software, and other system components
• Automated testing of software and system testing in a HIL environment
• Python and C#
• Modeling in UML
• Structured work with version control system
• ISO-26262 and working in projects with requirements for Automotive SPICE and MISRA


Application process
In this recruitment Öhlins Racing collaborates with Skill so if you think it sounds interesting, we ask you to send in your application with your CV at www.skill.se. We are working with ongoing selection so please note that the position may be filled before the last application date.

For questions regarding the position, please contact the responsible recruitment consultant Kajsa Jonsson at +46(0)8- 120 971 71 or kajsa.jonsson@skill.se.