Speech interaction expert

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.

Volvo Cars has just launched the next generation infotainment system that is based on Android Automotive, with close collaboration with Google. We are now looking for a technical speech expert to strengthen our organization.

You will work with a cross-functional team of designers, engineers, product owners and others to both enhance our existing functions and build new product features. You will innovate and prototype new features, evaluate which features are mostly used by our customers and continuously make them better. As a speech expert, you will participate in technical discussion with other development teams that work with related areas and with our main collaboration partners outside of Volvo Cars. You have previous development experience so you can understand, implement and try-out new things in our Android platform and if needed, write CI-test to validate e.g. speech performance or system accuracy.  You are not afraid of taking new contacts to drive system related questions within our organization since the audio chain in a vehicle involves several teams and several SW and HW components.

Required qualifications / skills:
* PhD or M.Sc in speech technology, natural language processing, or a related field
* 5+ years industry experience with speech technology (e.g., dialog systems, speech recognition, user interactions, etc.)
* Experience from speech systems in combination with audio processing.
* Experienced with acoustic modeling, language modeling, strong linguistic background and an analytical mindset.
* Good understanding or hands on experience of speech preprocessing, noise-cancellations, speech related techniques 
* Publications or other relevant speech projects.
* A personal drive to keep up with the competence area by attending conferences, both as speaker and as a guest.
* Good English skill (written and spoken)


Personal qualities:
* A strive for future development and challenges
* Driven and self-motivated, with a strong delivery orientation
* Communicative and a great team player, with positive and pro-active attitude
* Problem solver, with good analytical skills


At Research & Development you will be a key contributor to the next generation outstanding luxury cars from Volvo. Together with other engineers around the world, you and your team will create innovative human-centric car technology that makes life less complicated and more enjoyable for people. Are you interested in design and connected car technology? Do you share our passion for people, the environment and our urge to create a superior driving experience? Research and Development is the place for you to prosper.c

How to apply and learn more
If you have any additional questions regarding the position, you are welcome to contact Manager Johan Röök (johan.rook@volvocars.com). For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact senior recruiter Katarina Wanderydz (katarina.wanderydz@volvocars.com)

To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via our system as soon as possible, but no later than 3 February. Interviews will be held continuously!
Note that due to GDPR applications by mail will not be approved.