Senior System Engineer, Human Factors for Safe AD Experience

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.

Do you want to create the future with us?
The future belongs to those who are empowered by a great idea and with the ability to carry it out.   
At Volvo Cars we are redefining the automotive experience and are innovating to make people’s lives less complicated. Freedom to move in a safe, personal, and sustainable way! This is our purpose.   
What do we offer?
Volvo Cars is on an ambitious journey to re-define the experience related to car usage and ownership. Combining technologies and innovative services, we are committed to offering the most personal, safe, and sustainable solutions in mobility.
At our department of Autonomous Drive (AD) and Active Safety Functions we design, integrate, and verify the complete vehicle solution for autonomous cars and active safety functions. We collaborate with some of the most innovative industry partners to reach our future visions of safety, convenience, and mobility.
What will you do?
We are looking for a competence in Human Factors for our AD Human Machine Interaction (HMI) team to share the challenge to launch Safe AD to customers.
You will work with the AD HMI that needs to support the delivery of customer valued autonomous driving functions. You need to understand the intention of the customer function and the work will include interpretation of legal and internal requirements, driving Human factor issues across ARTs (Agile Release Train) to secure Safe AD, contributing to the development, design, and V&V (Verification & Validation) of the User interaction for the AD functions, plan and execute user research to ensure data driven development, decision making and AD HMI safe argumentation.
You will collaborate closely with the Safe AD V&V team, AD function teams, the UX organization and the interface will also include our Software suppliers and multiple VCC (Volvo Car Corporation) teams that needs to contribute to the development of Safe AD HMI. 
You will be part of a team with competences in Human factors, user research and function design.
Agile, cross-functional, and collaborative way of working is natural for you to reach high quality results in time. You are a committed and trusted team worker and the team’s achievements are essential to you.

Who are you?
You are a fast learning, self-driven and proactive team player with great ambitions. You are good at communication, you are curious, innovative, and always eager to learn and understand your surroundings. You care about people and like to interact and work together. You take the initiative and feel responsibility for getting things done. You are always willing to offer a hand even for tasks you have little experience of. You are active in meetings, enthusiastic, proud to share and support others with your knowledge. In your competence area you can guide and empower your colleagues and it is important for you to develop both yourself and others 
You are a person that has a strong interest, even a passion, to be part of the big shift into autonomous driving vehicles and new customer experiences
If you are the one, we are looking for, you can look forward to becoming a member of a team that will deliver self-driving functionality that brings amazing mobility experiences to customers and emphasizes Volvo Cars' commitment to safety.
Do you fit the profile? We believe that you:
* Have a relevant educational background on an MSc level
* Have experience/knowledge in systemization of AD functions
* Have experience in conducting research around Human factors of Automated Driving
* Have experience in Data Analytics and data driven decision making and development projects
* Have experience/knowledge in conducting user tests in the automotive domain
* Are fluent in English, spoken and written 

Meritorious qualifications
* A background in Cognitive Science, Applied Psychology, Human Factors or similar.
* PhD in Human Factors or relevant field of study
* Knowledge in how to apply the standards (e.g., ISO26262, SOTIF- Safety of the Intended Functionality, ALKS - Automated Lane Keeping Systems)
* Experience from Scrum or Kanban based teamwork 

How To Learn More and Apply
We would like your application at the latest by 11 rd April 2022.

Location: Sweden, Gothenburg, ADAS and AD functions in Safe Vehicle Automation