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.

Where You’ll Belong
We are looking for an Experienced Troubleshooter within Embedded Systems to join our team of senior troubleshooters within ART Core System Platform in the SWEP Solution, which is part of our R&D organization. You will play an important part in making the car ownership a great experience by reducing the time spent waiting to get customer support.
Our focus is to find root causes behind challenging software related issues that are found in our new SPA2 platform. This is a centralized in-vehicle compute cluster. It is designed to host vehicle applications, reaching from basic vehicle state machines to advanced active safety and autonomous drive features.


What You´ll Do
As a troubleshooter in our team you need to be flexible and open minded. We dive into new kinds of problems most every day and that can include both software and hardware issues. Understanding code is required but finding the right team and to network across our organization is often the key to progress. Being collaborative, humble and curious is important to be successful in this role.


You And Your Skills
You are a genuine problem solver with a positive and solution-oriented mind-set. Taking on new challenges or trying things out is part of your DNA. You are a self-motivated individual and a responsible team player with experience and great interest in troubleshooting. 

There is a wide range of knowledge areas that are valuable to our team and we appreciate a diversity of interests. Some of us are software engineers with experience from C/C++ in an embedded development context, while some of us like to be more involved in performing hands-on fault tracing in cars onsite. This is where your individual experience and curiosity come into play. You will influence your days at work based on those. What we have in common so far is engineering and that we are comfortable in working in and around code. Let’s describe a few more areas that you may have experience from.

You might have:
•    good knowledge of an embedded OS and/or Linux / QNX / AUTOSAR
•    good knowledge of debugging common software problems like segmentation faults, race conditions, thread safety, performance issues, memory consumption issues, etc.
•    good knowledge of configuration / build environments like Jenkins, docker, vagrant or similar
•    performed various testing with software or embedded electronics and enjoy making scripts to interact with systems


Qualifications
•    Troubleshooting experience beyond debugging code
•    Communication & Networking Skills – To be comfortable in interacting with people and finding the needed ways forward
•    University degree in engineering or equivalent working experience
•    At least five years of work experience


Meritorious
•    Automotive experience
•    Experience from working with CAN/LIN protocols
•    Skills in network analysis with tcpdump / wireshark
•    Skills in crashdump analysis with gdb
•    Good knowledge of TCP/IP, working with networking / automotive protocols


Do you want to know more? We hope that you do
We look forward to receiving and reviewing your application. For questions about the position, please contact Hiring Manager Ellinor Carlén at ellinor.carlen@volvocars.com. Or just hit the apply button further down!
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