V&V Strategist for Autonomous Drive

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?
‘The first person that experience the eminent value of the AD function in a physical car, is the customer’. This is a vision and is it even possible? Can you visualize the customer function development, V&V and even tuning done virtual environments? If so, you are the one we are looking for. Test objects like cars will be needed but they will be limited. This is why we need to ensure the robustness and safety of the function in other test environments

You will need to think strategically, develop tactics and lead, challenge and guide team and colleagues to:
•    drive the creation of a roadmap for the vision that will lead to fast and reliable feedback loops during development and V&V
•    identify needs and develop plans for methods and competence needed
•    demonstrate the value, applicability and learnings in each step together with the AD function  team and colleagues that work with verification, data analytics and development of test environments.  
•    develop the ability to make the team and stakeholders experience the function virtually in an engaging way that is as close to reality as it can be

You will be a member in a team that focus on function V&V and this team is part of a greater AD Function team with competences in function development,systemisation and integration. The AD function teams takes full responsibility for the development and launch of the function and share a common backog. To be successful you will need to collaborate with an extensive network of teams at Volvo Cars. You will also work close with our Function SW supplier Zenseact on matters like work split and collaboration for best way forward. You will also take the advantage of the Open innovation arena for collaboration with both internal and external parties.
Agile, cross-functional and collaborative way of working is natural for you to reach high quality results in time. You are a committed and trusted team worker and the team’s achievements are essential to you.

Do you fit the profile?
Are you challenged by the vision?  If you have senior experience in understanding the challenge, the change, the required collaboration to reach ambitious and complex targets and the experience from moving towards a vision step by step, then you are the person we want to join and become a member of a team that will deliver self driving functionality that brings amazing mobility experiences to customers and emphasizes Volvo Cars commitment to safety and a Zero Collision future. 
It is a leadership role where you will be expected to guide, take decisions, give clear recommendations and develop others as well as yourself. 
You probably have a background in function V&V, design and development and experience from different virtual testing environment that has provided you with a good understanding of the benefit and potential in virtual verification. 

We think you are familiar with testing in SW-in-the Loop, HW in-the Loop, Product simulators, Vehicle dynamics simulators and Virtual Reality tools. We also think you have experience from continous integration and test automisation
We belive that you have a MSc degree in Systems, control and mechatronics, Data Science, Computer engineering, Engineering Physics, Mathematics or equivalent or even a PhD degree. You are fluent in English, spoken and written, and have a driver’s license (B)
Who are you?
We are curious, We create together and We make a difference. This is our culture, and we like to think that you feel connected to this and that this is something you can represent and support, then you are the person we look for.  

Location: Sweden, Gothenburg, ADAS&AD functions department in Safe Vehicle Automation