Road NVH Developer

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’s in it for you?
Do you believe that cars should be safe, engaging to drive and comfortable to ride in? We do too! Be a part of an exciting journey towards improving the driving and riding experience of our future cars. In the role of Road NVH Developer in the Vehicle Dynamics and Road NVH Industrialization team, part of the Personal Driving Experience Centre at Volvo Cars Headquarters in Gothenburg.

The Vehicle Dynamics and Road NVH Industrialization team ensures that our car customers can enjoy class leading ride comfort, driving pleasure and cabin quietness. Through tuning of suspension components, body structure and tyres we extract the outmost potential of each vehicle platform.

What you’ll do
As a Road NVH Developer you will work in a highly engaged team that always strive to support our customers feeling of confidence and passion while driving or riding in their Volvo.

You will start working in projects in one of the most intense and interesting phases, just when we receive the first body correct prototypes. Subjective assessments on test tracks and public roads as well as advanced data acquisition methods are used to analyse the vehicle performance. You will use these insights to tune and work with countermeasures for suspension components, body structure and tyres.

Working closely with your team means that you will be at Hällered proving ground on a weekly basis also supporting the relationship with mechanics and site allocated engineers.

You and your skills
We believe you have a M.Sc in mechanical engineering, technical acoustics, engineering physics or similar. You are competent in physco acoustics, applied acoustics and signal processing and you have experience of physical testing in real-world usage and/or test rigs. You are experienced in data acquisition and comfortable in performing signal processing in Matlab and/or Python. You also need to be fluent in English, both written and spoken. 

Experience in vehicle NVH or Vehicle Dynamics development is meritorious, as well as experience from using Müller-BBM PAK, Simcenter Testlab, HEAD Artemis Suite and/or Siemens systems. 

On a personal level, you are a curious person with a willingness to learn the vehicle dynamics and NVH attributes to an extent that you fully understand the teams’ challenges. You have a sincere interest in satisfying the end customer and will use all available tools to get there. For this role we believe it’s important that you have an analytical capability, good interpersonal skills as well as good communications skills and strong networking capabilities. You are customer focused, result oriented and thrive from teamwork. We are looking for a team-player with a sense of accountability.

How to learn more and apply
For questions about the position please contact Hiring Manager Carl Sandberg at  carl.sandberg@volvocars.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Maria Kihlgren at maria.kihlgren@volvocars.com. We want your application at the latest October 12, 2022. Please note that due to GDPR applications via email will not be accepted.

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