Attribute Architect Electrical Performance

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

What you’ll do
At Electrical Performance we focus on customer benefit throughout the service life of the car with respect to reliability, safety and availability related to the electrical system and its hardware. We provide requirements to design departments and give technical support to function, system and complete vehicle in order to reach the attribute target. We predict attribute status based on requirement fulfilment during the development phase and we verify, mainly on complete vehicle, before start-of-production. We continuously develop and benchmark our requirement set, physically, virtually and networking internationally eg through participating in international standardization working groups.

As Attribute Architect you will lead the strategic development of the Attribute based on today’s and future customer needs. This is a new role, strongly connected to the complete vehicle sub-team, with purpose to speed up strategic development. You will set the goals for the strategic work and drive the continuous strategic planning including roadmap and related features. Your focus areas will include:
-    Gathering of field data 
-    Identifying customer use cases
-    Looking forward on new technologies
-    Other new challenges, such as “shift left” including simulations
-    Balancing based on costumer value

You have a strong focus on deliveries, and you make clear and transparent plans to enable colleagues to take part in the strategic work. The strategic work will be included in the team back logs and prioritized versus project work by the Product owner in close dialogue with the Attribute Architect. You will act as the stakeholder and set the expectations on deliveries by the team for all committed work packages related the strategic work. For some work packages you will take a more active role either execute 

What you‘ll bring
You have a M.Sc. in Electronics, Physics or similar and you must have long, at least 10 years, of product development within the automotive industry. You have good knowledge about the vehicle electronical system and automotive demands on electronics and are passionate about our customers and their desire of a well-balanced product, including cost. You have experience of analyzing and assessing electrical performance on component, system or complete vehicle both in early and late project phases. Knowledge about tools such as FMEA, 6sigma and root cause analysis is also a merit. You need to be fluent in English, both written and spoken. You are interested in taking part in our journey towards both new products and new ways of working!

Want to know more? We hope so
We’d love to receive and review your application. If you want more information about the role and its responsibilities or simply to learn a bit more about the team, please reach out to the hiring manager at (annika.lundberg@volvocars.com) or the recruiter at (catharina.skog@volvocars.com).