Senior Design Engineer Function development

Senior function and software developer

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.

Active Safety develops all active safety and driver support functions within Volvo Cars. The mission is to develop world-leading active safety functions, including self-driving vehicles and be an important contributor to the Volvo Cars vision that by nobody should be seriously injured or killed in new Volvo cars. Situation assessment is active in both active safety and self-driving vehicle development. The focus for the team is to develop application software that; analyses the traffic situation in order to understand if a system intervention is required in order to avoid a pending collision, The software also generates the escape manoeuvre assures a safe and convenient operation for a self-driving vehicle.

The majority of the team is working with embedded systems but a growing area is functionality that is based on cloud functionality.The position as Senior function and software developer will be active in both concept development and industrialisation.

Main responsibilities

* Function & SW development with Simulink and Embedded Matlab as main development tools
* Development of SW algorithms within the area of active safety and semi or fully autonomous vehicles
* Develop SW unit tests
* Documenting SW and requirements
* Maintenance of issues in issue management systems (such as Jira)

Required qualifications

* PhD or a MSc combined with long term experience in relevant areas like signal processing dynamical systems control theory
* Experience of software development is meritorious
* Experience of Matlab and Simulink as modelling and analysis tool is meritorious
* Experience of SW quality assurance methods as well as experience of function development and experience of distributed, embedded control systems is meritorious
* Fluent in English, written and spoken

Personal qualities

* High integrity and professionalism
* Holistic view and conceptual thinking
* Business and performance driven
* A great communicator and excellent corporation skills

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 Sourceright. If you have any questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact the responsible recruitment consultant Jessica Mitrosbaras by e-mail jessica.mitrosbaras@randstadsourceright.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 Oct 5th, 2016.