Senior Data Scientist - Autonomous Drive

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.

Let's create the future together.
At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us?
Our Agile Release Train for Autonomous Drive develops and integrates the complete vehicle solution for autonomous cars including sensing, system and functions. Our autonomous technology will take safety in driving to a new level. To make this happen, we need talented people like you! 
Verification and validation of unsupervised self-driving vehicles is something we at Volvo Cars see as utterly important, but also challenging. Data and analytics play an important role in this regard. We are looking for someone, who have the capacity and knowledge to develop, implement and apply methods and tools for using data and analytics in verification and validation of unsupervised self-driving vehicles.


What will you do?

In this role, you will break down large data science problems into steps we need to take to create intelligence from the vast amount of data. You will develop new techniques to analyse autonomous driving data to extract novel information that describes what has happened during real world drives. You will explore new verification and validation concepts to show that the self-driving vehicle is safe for deployment. As it is a senior role, you are expected to take lead in various technical topics and feel comfortable with breaking down ambiguous objectives to executable steps.
At Volvo Cars, we have an agile organization. The agile culture provides the tools needed to empower and engage teams to achieve great levels of productivity and quality.
What do we offer? 
We offer an environment where we learn every day, challenge each other and give continuous feedback. Your long-term competence plan will include steps to expand your knowledge and contributions within many competence areas that are within your interest or needed in the team.
We will support you to reach your full potential. Join us on this exciting journey into the future!

Who you are:
You are a self-driven team player with high ambitions. As a person, you are curious, innovative, and entrepreneurial with an understanding of working in a large global company. You care about the people around you, and get things done.
To be successful you have a proven work experience of conceptualization, development and deployment of data science project(s) on an industrial scale. You can define and implement necessary steps to develop methods for doing automated analysis of large amounts of data, and have skills for presenting the analysis results.

Having strong academic background, in-depth knowledge and skills in both theory and practice is needed in the areas of machine learning, data mining, algorithm design, numerical optimization, statistical modeling, and pattern recognition. Moreover, you demonstrate competence in tackling complex analytical problems, show passion to create prototype systems and transform the proof of concept to production.
Strong programming skills, preferably in Python, is required. Having experience in building CI/CD pipelines is a merit.

We believe that you have a drive to learn continuously and are flexible to broaden your experience to fit the agile way of working. You probably have a M.Sc. degree or higher. Good knowledge in English language both spoken and written, is required for the role. We value experience from driving vehicles and understanding the requirements for driving a vehicle safely.  
How to learn more and apply
Feel free to apply for this position through this portal no later than December 2, 2021 but please note that selections will be running continuously.