Functional Safety Engineer Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles - Volvo Group

Sustainability including climate change are the challenges of our generation. Our contribution is to offer leading transport and infrastructure solutions enabling societies to prosper in a sustainable way.


Electrification is a key enabler for carbon neutral road transport. Using hydrogen as a carrier of green electricity to power electric trucks is one important part of the solution and a complement to battery electric vehicles and renewable fuels.


Powertrain Strategic Development Department is responsible to lead the transition from conventional powertrains to hydrogen based propulsion technologies.


We are highly skilled engineers acting in an exciting global environment which provides opportunities to develop both professionally and personally.


Do you want to join us on this journey? Together we will shape the world we want to live in!


We are now recruiting a Functional Safety Engineer for Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
The vehicles are always expected to be safe and operate correctly.


Within automotive the need of functional safety work is increasing with the complexity of vehicles. As safety engineer you play a vital role in securing that every step in the design process is in line with functional safety requirements. Your focus will be the fuel cell propulsion system with connected hydrogen storage system and the interfaces to the electromobility systems. You will work cross-functionally within our organization and have interaction points at all GTT Engineering organizations as well as at Volvo Penta and Volvo Construction Equipment.


You will lead and coach your colleagues on Functional Safety topics making sure the requirements in Functional Safety (ISO26262) and other safety standards are fulfilled. You will also actively participate in system safety reviews and support the test engineers in defining safety test cases.


Examples of tasks for you as a Functional Safety Engineer include to compile item definitions, perform hazard and safety analysis, derive safety concepts, specify safety requirements, create functional safety documentation, and conduct functional safety reviews.


Who are you?
You are passionate about developing technologies aiming for safe and environmentally friendly products. You are talented in creating structure in a complex environment, and you have a solution-oriented mindset.
You enjoy taking initiatives and creating networks with the people you work with. You do it with high integrity to create an open and transparent environment. As a person you enjoy teamwork and you have good communication and collaboration skills.


Your profile and skills
Expert in safety analyses and tools part of functional safety according to ISO26262
Proven experience in driving the functional safety process
Knowledge about vehicle applications and experience in all phases from concept, requirements, design, verification to validation and production.
M.Sc. in Engineering or equivalent educational background
Several years of experience within the automotive industry

We hope to see you as part of our team. Welcome with your application today!
Application screening will start immediately.


For further information please contact:
Johan Stålarm, Director Complete Propulsion and Deployment, Johan.stalarm@volvo.com


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