System design engineer - functional safety

Do you want to be part of transforming the transport industry? Imagine yourself being able to affect the future for coming decades and contribute to creating a brighter future for next generations. Autonomous transport solutions are one of the keys to achieve more sustainable mobility and you now have the chance to join us in the team that is responsible for designing the system solutions that ensure the safety of the technology… If this is not worth your time and energy – what is?


Welcome to our team


Collaboration, innovation, and drive is the backbone of everything we do. We are a team that does not shy away from challenges and find energy in finding solutions to finish what we have started.


We can promise you great colleagues and some truly exciting opportunities for both professional and personal growth. In Volvo Autonomous Solutions (V.A.S.) we work together to realize autonomous solutions that will defy conventions and take us to the future. With entirely new business models and advanced technology, we will meet and exceed expectations from customers and contribute to a society that we want to live in.


We are unified by diversity, great ideas and inclusiveness. Our colleagues are the most important part of our story so every member in our team matters and plays a critical role in our journey to success.


We are an equal opportunity employer with office locations in Sweden and in the US. Whoever and wherever you are we strive to offer you flexibility and work-life balance to enable high engagement and fulfillment in both your professional and personal life.


Your chance to have impact


We are looking for a System design engineer with a strong sense of functional safety and safety of the intended function. In this role, your main mission will be to together with your team deliver an innovative system solution involving both software and hardware components to ensure the safety of our customer solutions. As such, you will complement our team in delivering the overall system design, functional decomposition, sub-systems interface specification and corresponding safety requirements.


Your deliveries will consider the entire lifecycle of development with participation and/or leading concepts from early phases of the development cycle to customer deployment in order to secure competitive system solutions for the application needs. You will contribute to the development of technical roadmaps and system architecture and work closely to many other teams in V.A.S. All with the purpose of ensuring the capability of our product solution to prevent human harm.


Are we a perfect match


In our team we are truly passionate about what we do and pride ourselves with being professional, collaborative and solution oriented. We hope you share these values and hold a creative and open mindset with willingness to grow. If you also possess an eagerness to understand the broader picture and thrive when finding solutions to highly complex challenges with a knack of bringing tasks to completion, this will be great.


To complement our team, we believe you have few years of experience in system design with a good grasp of different safety compliance standards such as the Machine directive - ISO13849 or ISO26262 and know how to develop and design systems accordingly. Your background might be broad, but we hope you bring a relevant university degree and professional experience with a good understanding of what it takes to design, implement and release safety critical features consisting of software and hardware components with strong formal requirement.


Next step


We are eager to connect with you so do not hesitate to reach out on LinkedIn, send a txt or give me a call if you are curious to know more. Finally, do not forget to send in your application in the Volvo group career portal.


Julia Nilsson, Global Technology Manager Automated Driver, +46 739021344


Kindly note that due to GDPR, we will not accept applications via mail. Please use our career site.