System Designer Speech interaction

System Designer Speech Technology

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.
At Volvo Car Group we are proud of our products and of the values that Volvo Car embodies - quality, safety and care for the environment. Consequently, we bring these values to our customers through our employees. We understand the value of a balance between work and leisure in life, and we offer many diverse opportunities within an international company that is ethically sound. We further offer our employees an adventurous job experience around the world, with plenty of scope for the imagination and lots of room to grow.

The infotainment department is responsible for the specification, developing, verifying systems and components within the infotainment area. You will work with the latest technology in order to reach the future characteristics and requirements in a very exciting field. The group you will belong to, Speech & Language, is responsible for implementation of speech- and handwriting interaction and text translations.

As a System Designer Speech Technology you are responsible for describing how the subsystem speech shall be realised in a system solution which fulfils the technical, time and cost requirements. As the electrical subsystems are part of the realisation of the electrical functions this shall be done in cooperation with the FRRs and Function Owners.

Main responsibilities

* Developing system solution (SRD) by using the decided modelling tools (mainly Elektra).
* Ensure that the system solution will be verified (e.g. in a boxcar, a HIL rig or/and a test car either by himself or by a tester).
* Process incoming requirements (incl. e.g. legal and market requirements, etc.)
* Analyse and agree upon input requirements from mainly Legal requirement, attribute areas, function realization
* Create requirement on SW and HW components within the system, and agree with component designers
* Taking part in the system alternative decision work when creating the System Decision Alternative (SDA) and the System Design Form (SDF).
* Creating input to the Diagnose Data Base (DDB) (like verification method and function DTC), and produce signal requirements for the Signal Data Base (SDB).
* Perform an S-FMEA
* Ensure that the system will be realised
* Creating input to car and local configuration parameters needed to realize the implementation
* Securing the audio chain, including beam forming/noise cancellation, to be optimized for speech recognition

Required qualifications

* University degree within the area of Speech Technology or Computational Linguistics, otherwise a M.Sc. in Electrical and/or Software engineering. Similar relevant proven experience can also be applicable
* Preferably a minimum of 5 years actively working within the field of speech technology in the automotive context
* Strong verbal and writing communication skills in Swedish and English
* Experience working in an international environment
* Experience from product development

Personal qualities

* Strong interest in speech technology
* Drive for results in a structured way
* High level of energy, open minded and innovative
* Teamwork oriented
* Passion for quality and cars
* Integrity, courage and personal energy
* Openness to change, flexible personality
* Inclusiveness
* Good judgment
* Good pedagogical skills
* Business orientation

About Volvo Car Group
The future belongs to those who are empowered by a great idea and have the ability to carry it out. At Volvo Car Group, our vision is clear: "To be the world's most progressive and desired luxury car brand" by simplifying people's lives. We have bold targets when it comes to innovation, sales and customer satisfaction and to make this happen, we need talented people onboard. People with passion, energy, business sense and the drive to innovate. People that want to create the next generation Volvo cars in a global, dynamic and respectful environment. We will support you to reach your full potential. Join us on this exciting journey into the future.

Contact
In this recruitment process we are collaborating with Randstad Professionals. If you have any questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact the responsible recruitment consultant Nadja Bergman at +46 729889828 or by e-mail nadja.bergman@randstad.se. Note that applications by e-mail will not be accepted.
Interviews will be held continuously. To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via the link below as soon as possible but no later than April 25th, 2016.