Electrical System Engineer – Electrical Design

Electrical System Engineer - Electrical Design

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 Group Electrical Design is part of the section Electrical System Architecture. The group's responsibility is to develop the electrical distribution system with mechanisms that balance and limits electrical power consumption and the distribution aspects of communication properties for each electrical component and system in all conditions where the car are used. Personal safety in Hybrid vehicles as well as protecting the electrical distributions system against abnormal use or errors in the system is other areas of our responsibility.

As Electrical System Engineer you will together with your colleagues be responsible for develop the electrical design solution in the car. You will define solutions based on the electrical architecture mechanisms in a fully distributed electrical system as well as received legal, attribute and customer function, system and component requirements. You will participate in the overall requirement balancing process to handle conflicts with other requirements and you will act towards other electrical engineers and designers to ensure full understanding of the solution. You will work in close collaboration with the test group to ensure that requirements are testable and that the solutions work as intended.

Main responsibilities

* Develop and document system and component solutions for defined car program
* Define and cascade system and component requirements to affected area
* Support implementation in subsystem solutions
* Secure electrical design system functionality during all use cases of the vehicle
* Verify system requirement fulfilment
* Actively participate in solving issues raised during car programs

Required qualifications

* B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent competence gained by experience
* Knowledge in system development process
* Experience in Electrical System Development
* Experience in Electrical Distribution System Development
* Ability to assess different technical solutions
* Fluent in English, written and spoken
* Knowledge in Matlab and Simulink is meritorious

Personal qualities

* Customer focused
* Engaged and encouraging people
* Encourage change and implementation
* Relations oriented and communicative
* Positive and inquisitive mind-set

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 luxury car brand" by simplifying people's lives. 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 Sally Alverstrand at +46 729 88 94 57 or by e-mail sally.alverstrand@randstad.se. Note that applications by e-mail will not be accepted.

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 May 3th, 2016.