Senior Software Architect - 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.

About our R&D – System Design & Integration
Our department consist of around 200 people that are responsible for the Active safety platform for enabling driver assistance and collision avoidance functions. We are also responsible for making Autonomous Drive become reality for the customer. To make this happen we are working closely with different stakeholders, function design, software developing and sensor teams developing state-of-the-art LiDARs, ultrasonic sensors as well as cameras and radars. 

We are now looking for a Senior leader that will work with our software architecture
You are a driven, structured, and self-motivated senior team player, who will be a part of our agile development team.  You are very skilled within SW architecture & design and will be part of developing our next generation of premium Volvo Cars. You will be a member in a group of around 35 engineers and will collaborate with other architects, lead developers, Product owners and stakeholder, both internal and external. 

Your key tasks
You will lead us in the work with designing and developing a flexible SW architecture for our sensor platform. Together with SW design engineers you will lead and guide technical activities and the development of key concepts across the organization.
You will also work closely with product management and product owner to establish the technical roadmap. In the work you will lead the work defining SW processes internal and external, securing functional safety, cyber security and optimize sensor and sensor fusion integration. We are handling memory intensive applications and processing sensor data in NVIDIA core compute system. It’s important to be able to handle the non-functional requirements for optimizing the CPU/GPU load and timing aspects. You will secure that the SW architecture is coherently designed and take part in implementing key software concepts and supporting the integration of those in prototype and target environments.

We see that you have experience within:
−    Software architecture design in complex embedded systems
−    Real time fault tolerant software design
−    Solid coding experience in C/C++ and Python
−    Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery/Deployment
−    Object oriented development
−    Working with different functional safety standards e.g. ISO26262, SOTIF and Cyber security

It’s meritorious to have knowledge in: 
−    Ethernet, TCP/IP, CAN
−    Linux, Autosar
−    Git, Gerrit, Jenkins
−    Machine learning, neural network and computer vision
−    NVIDIA automotive HW/SW tools

You have:
−    At least Master of Science within electronics, mechatronics, software or similar
−    More than 10 years of experience with SW design work
−    Very good skills in English both written and spoken
−    Driver`s license “B”, valid in EU is meritorious.