Electric Drive SW - Fault Tracer

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.

About us
Electric Drive Software at Volvo Cars are leaders within SW development for Electric Vehicles. We are responsible for delivering system solution and SW functionality for the Inverters and electric machines in our electrified vehicles. Our vision is to deliver the best and most innovated functions to the market and continuously evolve our Software platform.

About you
You have experience within Power Electronics field and is a natural initiator that commit to deliver the Team´s deliverables with high precision on quality. You are a team player that contribute and bring out the best from your fellow team members and work actively to increase your work network. You should work pro-active and persistent in leading or contributing in cross-functional improvements. You need to be on advanced level in the English language and be comfortable and skilled in explaining or understanding complexed solutions.

What´s in it for you
You would be a part small energetic fault tracer team working with inverter and electric machine related issues within the department as well as outside of the department. Some issues are to be relayed to the responsible team within the art and some need more hands-on attention. The location can vary from HIL rigs within the department to machine and inverter rigs within the building to works shops and test sites in all of Sweden or the world.

The area of electrification is expanding rapidly, and the department as a whole is growing. This has led to that the responsibility and the way of working of our fault tracers is also in the process of changing. This is a great opportunity for you to affect how the role itself evolves.

Main responsibilities:
* Perform fault tracing on the electric drives system in prototype vehicles, test rigs, boxcars and production cars
* Perform SW fault analysis and drive root cause identification
* Test and verify electric drives SW during development phase
* Perform development testing on new SW functionality in collaboration with function developers
* Manage needed test environments, test benches and plant models
* Support during prototype/vehicle builds and commissioning activities


You and your skills
You are an experienced automotive fault tracer with knowledge within electrification and a university degree or equivalent competence. Relevant job experience relative to testing and development of automotive SW and model-based controls systems.
You have experience from hands-on vehicle/rig testing and fault tracing.

Competence within SW testing (e.g. in MIL, SIL, HIL, Rigs, vehicle), vehicle measurement and calibration activities and the used tool chain for this (DSA, CANalyzer, INCA, DTECS).

Competence in VCC quality systems and DRO-data as well as Matlab/Simulink, Autosar is meritorious. You are fluent in English, verbally and in writing and you have a Swedish or an EU driver’s license.


The future belongs to those who are empowered by great ideas and can carry it out. We have bold targets when it comes to innovation, and customer satisfaction and to make this happen, we have talented people on-board. People that want to make a difference and create the next generation Volvo cars in a global, dynamic and respectful environment. We believe in people and that everyone possesses unique strengths! What is yours?

How to learn more and apply
For questions about the position, please contact hiring manager, Andreas Nylander at andreas.nylander@volvocars.com.
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter Lotta Ericsson at lotta.ericsson@volvocars.

Please note that applications via email will not be approved. 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 2021-12-14.