Test Facility Engineer - Battery Lab

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.

What you’ll do

At Volvo Cars, we have bold targets when it comes to innovation, sales and customer experience, and we’re developing new technologies to lead in safety, autonomous driving and electrification. If you want to grow together with talented people creating a new automotive future, we have a job for you.

Propulsion & Climate Labs is Volvo Cars’ Centre for testing of propulsion systems, in complete vehicle as well as in component form. We operate and develop propulsion test facilities for vehicles, drivelines, electric motors, inverters, batteries, transmissions, as well as aerodynamic and climatic testing. Our work includes hardware- and software preparation of testing, test execution and processing of measurement data. We also develop and build new test facilities.

To meet the future, we need to invest in state-of-the-art test environments and continuously develop our test methods to ensure that we test and verify next generation cars in an efficient and correct manner. Do you want to contribute to making our test environment the best in the business? Then the role as Test Facility Engineer at Battery Lab is for you!

You will be responsible for the systemization of the complete test environment for both HW and SW testing of batteries at Battery Lab. You will work with method development, develop the lab for future needs and leading concept work during early phases. Together with the Battery lab teams and the developing organizations understand the requirement of the testbeds, both when it comes to data collection, accuracy needed for different test methods, capability, and legal requirement of today and for the future. Your target will be to make sure we build the right environment with the right capabilities to fulfill verification needs. You will also need to consider extending capabilities of existing test environments and how to fit new environments into an existing software infrastructure.

What you‘ll bring
We see that you have a M.Sc. or B.Sc in Electrical Engineering, or another related field. You have experience within validation and verification methods and knowledge in Physical Measurement techniques of batteries. You are familiar with Test Automation system - both HW and SW is meritorious. Experience from building up lab environment would be highly valued.

Personality & Potential are Key
You are comfortable making your own decisions and appreciate the freedom to take required actions on own initiative. You have a good portion of high-level thinking as well as hands-on attitude. You are a great communicator who easily build new relationships, persistent enough to get the answers you need in order to succeed. You never forget about the long-term goal, but are able to think outside-of-the-box to get there.

Most of all, you share our values and can see everyone's potential. Your warm personality and eagerness to collaborate will be welcomed by all of us!