Senior System Design Engineer - Software download team

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future. 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.

What we offer
You will become a member of an agile development team with great team spirit, the SWDL (Software Download) team. The team is responsible for designing and verifying SWDL and UDS Gateway Communication technologies, base technologies used by ECU’s to download software during development, in our factories, at workshops and at end-customers. In this position, you will build and maintain a wide personal network with designers within many different system areas of the vehicle as well as manufacturing and customer service departments. As a part of our team, you get access to long-term development opportunities in a dynamic and continuously growing field. System design engineers within SWDL have the possibility to develop a personal competence within a central and vital area in the development of the electrical architecture. The SWDL team is part of the agile release train Common Base Technology, which forms the fundament for all electronic control units in the entire electrical system. In our daily work, we are working according to the SAFe framework with 12 weeks program increment and 2 weeks sprints. 
What you’ll do
You get inspired by our mission to give our customers a better car experience every day. You will use your deep knowledge to create and enhance the SWDL technologies in the vehicle and surrounding systems. 
Your main responsibilities together with the team includes: Develop & improve system design for the SWDL technologies, for the complete system from the backend systems to electronic control units (ECU) in the vehicle. Work with and spread knowledge to our implementation teams, suppliers, bootloader providers, verification teams, manufacturing engineering, aftermarket and IT department. Write, review and distribute system design requirements for SWDL and UDS Gateway communication technologies. Support development of system testing activities and test automation such as development of test cases, test scripts, methods, strategies, tools & processes.
You and your skills
You use your skills and your passion as Senior System Design Engineer to expand your technical insights and to build and maintain a network that includes people from many areas in the company. On a daily basis you will be involved in broad technical discussions to foment the development of the new technologies used by Volvo to reprogram ECUs throughout their entire life cycle. This means that we expect you to be familiar with a few aspects of software reprogramming and its optimisation within the automotive industry such as microcontroller architecture, flash memory structure and speeds, bootloader and flashloader design, standard programming sequence phases, software authentication methods, digital signatures, software compression and encryption strategies, double buffered data transfer for time optimisation, automotive gateway design and memory dimensioning, etc. Together with all that, we believe that you are curious and want to contribute to develop our SWDL&GW technologies. Driven by customer focus you get things done. You are committed to high delivery quality, and you have the ability to proceed your work without having all facts at hand before you start. You are flexible and have excellent communication and documentation skills. You have a positive attitude and are a team player. You are experienced with agile development and familiar with software development best practices.
We believe that you have M.Sc or B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering or equivalent. Experience of distributed electrical systems and electrical architecture. Experience in architecture and systemization of SW development. Experience in SWDL technology, bootloader development and unified diagnostic communication in general (ISO14229). Good understanding and experience with ISO documents and specifications such as ISO-TP (ISO15765) and DoIP (ISO 13400). Knowledge in other base tech areas: Diagnostics, OTA, Network Management, Network Communications (CAN/ETH/LIN/LVDS), Cybersecurity.   Excellent communication skills in English both in speech and writing. Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery / Automated SW testing. Experience in tools such as TeamCenter, Elektra & SystemWeaver. Experience in Volvo Cars tools: DSA, ParallelDiag, VIDA & VCATS. Hands on knowledge about writing automated test cases on higher test levels. Experience in test tools such as Canalyzer/CANoe etc. Experience in embedded software development (C++). 
Meritorious with good software development skills for enabling test automation such as: Python/CAPL, Robot Framework/Jenkins/Cynosure Azure, Gerrit/GIT. Any experience with MBSE, SysML and Rational Rhapsody.  
How to learn more and apply
For questions about the position, drop an email to recruiting team manager Elin Althini, at elin.althini@volvocars.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Catharina Skog, at catharina.skog@volvocars.com. Please note that applications via email will not be accepted.#LI-CS1