Senior Quality Engineer - SVA

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.

Senior Quality Engineer - SVA

Let’s create change together.
Nothing beats being part of positive change. We’re on a truly exciting journey, working together in a fast-paced global environment to break new ground in almost every aspect of our operations. Right now, we have exciting job openings in Autonomous Driving.
We are looking for strong leaders that will help us create high-performance teams from both technical and personal perspectives.


Who we are
 Our team in Solution Support consists of around 15 experienced leaders with a variety of tasks. Our overall mission is to optimize the use of the new platform SPA2 for Autonomous Drive, controlling the vehicles 6 degrees of freedom and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems by delivering world-class Pilot Assist, vehicle energy & motion control and a remarkable Autonomous Driving customer experience. Our objective in Solution Support is to add focus on continuously improving business operations and customer satisfaction.
We are responsible for driving initiatives across the solution and drive coordination of our technical solutions with external partners such as Polestar Geely, Lotus, LEVC and Zenseact. We are taking the lead in setting the strategic business plan/roadmap for our solution, driving the launch plan and hold interface to Plants NML´s and VPLs. We create clarity around how our products are perceived by our customers and collect defects from customers and drive resolution.

Who are you?
You are a Customer focused person with their satisfaction as your prime objective. With your positive attitude, and high momentum you will reach results. You are a self-driven person and a team player without prestige. You have a strong interest in and ability to develop networks. You are also, brave and have high integrity. You thrive in an environment that is creative and innovative You are well acquainted with both HW and SW from a development perspective, and as you understand from above the SW part is essential both for our own area and in relation to other streams. You should know and be a true supporter of agile ways of working since you and the team will be working primarily Scrum. You need to be an analytical person with an internal drive to find root causes to issues, be able to extract the most important parts and present it clearly. You have at least a few years of work life experience after a high school degree within some technical area.

Given that the things we see as quality concerns are things we have been less successful with during the development or where something unforeseen have happened you will need to be well founded in quality methods and principles (e.g. fault tree analysis, Six Sigma/DMAIC / DCOV, …). You will be having a broad contact net to make sure we are aligned in all our plants. Drive for ERA (Emergency Containment Actions), ICA (Interim Containment Action) and PCA (Permanent Corrective Action) to secure Product and Process. Lead Top and Critical Concern resolution. Work through cross-functional networks.

Do you fit the profile?
Quality is a high-focus area so you need to have a sense of urgency. An understanding of product development and SW is essential. You have a technical university background and also an interest and engagement in problem-solving. You enjoy working with others and have a high ability to communicate both verbally and in writing both in English and Swedish. You are analytical and structured and have experience working with quality resolution. You are not afraid to take lead for a task or be a meeting organizer.
Good knowledge of different production methods is meritorious.