SW Engineer - Function Developer Active Chassis system

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.

Want to join us on our exciting journey?
Volvo Cars is on an exciting journey, redefining the automotive experience by innovating to make people’s lives less complicated. We offer you a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make an impact in a company with unique opportunities to grow and make a true difference.

What we offer
An exciting role as function developer for active chassis functions and system. We are now looking for a Software Engineer with focus on embedded development to strengthen our team. The Suspension Software and Function teams are cross functional teams working with the full software stack, developing control algorithms for our functions and all tool chains needed for our development to achieve the best active chassis functions for our vehicles.

What you’ll do
You will be working in our in-house software team that develops functions for our Suspension system in both the Suspension ECU and the Central ECU of the vehicle. 
You will work closely with developers, test engineers, system engineers, safety engineers, function developers and may take cross-functional tasks depending on the need of the project. 
Your main responsibility is to perform embedded software development of algorithms for our active suspension functions as well as test activities in MIL, HIL, and in vehicles.
In your daily tasks you need to cooperate with other development teams to build up software requirements, test specification, test cases and reports. You will actively work with software development as well as testing activities using Hardware in the Loop (HIL), Model in the Loop (MIL) and physical vehicle tests.

What you’ll bring
For you to fully enjoy this opportunity, we believe that you are a motivated and self-driven function developer that would like to take initiative to improve our product. You embrace teamwork, collaboration and are eager to learn and develop new competences. Experience from working in the automotive industry, especially in the vehicle dynamics area, as well as genuine interest in vehicles are clear advantages to succeed in this role.

We see that you have a BSc degree or higher in Software Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience. 2+ years of SW development using Simulink or C/C++, strong communication skills and driver license B that is valid in Sweden. You have a “doer” mindset, ability to work in multicultural environment and like working agile. In addition, you’ll need experience and competence in the following technologies.

•    Have experience working with Embedded systems.
•    Have experience working in Automotive industry.
•    Have experience from functional testing in MIL
•    Have experience in HIL and SIL testing.
•    Have experience working with Matlab and Simulink.
•    Have experience working with Autosar.Have experience working with Vector tools: CANOE, CANalyzer, VTEST, CANape.
•    ISO26262 implementation knowledge.
•    Have experience working with version handling (GIT).
•    Have knowledge of Control Theory and/or Signal Processing.
•    Driver license B valid in Sweden

Below competence are also preferred but not a must:
-    Have knowledge in vehicle dynamics.
-    Have worked with Simulink Test tool.
-    Have worked with requirement management tools (e.g. CarWeaver/SystemWeaver)
-    Knowledge in VCC tools and processes.
-    Have knowledge in rapid prototyping tools (e.g. dSpace Autobox).
-    Having a "doer mindset", willing to learn new technology.
-    Be able to work in a multicultural team.
-    Have knowledge of Diagnostic (UDS, ISO14229).
-    Have knowledge of Automotive communication protocol: CAN, Ethernet. Have knowledge on low level protocol firmware development: SPI, UART, PWM, DIO, PSI5.
-    Programming knowledge: C, C++, Python.

How To Learn More And Apply
If you have any questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact Hiring Manager, Maria Kongstad at maria.kongstad@volvocars.com and for questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter Jim Svensson at jim.svensson@volvocars.com. Kindly register your application as soon as possible, but no later than 2024-09-29. Please note, due to GDPR application through e-mail is not accepted.