Software Engineer

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.

Deceleration & Steering is a part of the Vehicle Platform. The Deceleration teams are responsible for the vehicle deceleration software and we develop brake software for conventional and AD-controlled vehicles. We have both in-house and supplier-developed solutions. We research future systems for our portfolio and integration of more systems. We work with platform solutions where we strive to lead and shape the development of future shared platforms.

Now we are in the search for a dedicated colleague within the ART who will work as Lead Engineer within our teams for SW development and verification. The teams consist of highly skilled engineers working with supplier-developed software for the brake system in our plans is to expand the in-house SW development team that develops new functionality as well as with other parts of the company. Do you want to be a leader and bring new knowledge to our highly motivated teams?

What you will do
We are currently looking for a Lead Engineer for Brake Software and testing who will be responsible for the execution of a project, prioritize, and lead the work.
* Responsible for all deliveries/releases with regard to quality, time, and cost within decided content.
* Lead the team together with the engineering manager.
* Work with the department program manager and other lead engineers to secure complete delivery of the brake system.
Maintain the dialog with all our Stakeholders as suppliers and internally both for team intake and as a team ambassador.


You and your skills
To be successful in this role, we believe that you are passionate about people and our products and have a human-centric approach when working with our products and services. We believe that you are a servant leader who focuses on the deliveries as much as the people in the teams. You are structured and target-focused with a great ability to keep a holistic/strategic mindset rather than getting stuck in details. Further, you are a great communicator and networker, engaging people throughout the entire organization which makes it easy for you to collaborate with people from team to solution level. It comes naturally for you to build trust, and you are open-minded, always putting your team's needs first without prestige. We also believe that your curiosity seeks you to learn new things and areas within the range of our future products and services.

As our next colleague, we see that you have an MSc Degree in a relevant area (e.g., Electronic Engineering, Software Engineering) or equivalent expertise with 5+ years of experience working within a relevant area. We believe you have experience working in a technical leader role and that you have worked with SW development and have experience in an agile development environment for industrialization within early phases. You have knowledge about the Volvo Cars Information Model and Product Engineering Framework mainly in the function development domain. Your English is fluent, both written and spoken, and you have a proven ability to inspire, challenge, and lead different teams as a servant leader. Driving license B is required for this position.