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Senior System Design Lead - AD/ADAS

We're creating our own future. So are you.

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 who are creating a new automotive future, we have a job for you.

 

What do we offer? 

Volvo Cars is on an ambitious journey to re-define the experience related to car usage and ownership. Combining technologies and innovative services, we are committed to offer the most personal, safe and sustainable solutions in mobility.

 

At our department of Autonomous Drive and Active Safety Functions we design, integrate, and verify the complete vehicle solution for autonomous cars and active safety functions. We collaborate with some of the most innovative industry partners to reach our future visions of safety, convenience, and mobility.

 

Autonomous drive has the potential to fundamentally change how cars are used and are part of our society. As a member of the AD/ADAS Domain System Engineering team you will contribute to the team purpose to take the lead in safe, customer valued and purposeful functions for Advanced Driver Assistance systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving (AD). The responsibility, communal with the team, is to develop and launch a robust and safe, world-class functionality.

 

What will you do?

We are looking for an experienced technical leader with competence in robust and safe system design to set the fundaments of the AD/ADAS platform. The system design we do is the fundament the AD/ADAS functions are being built upon.

 

You will be the leader in a team where you will contribute with your system design competence and your leadership skills. In the daily work you constantly consider technical, strategical and commercial aspects and you guide in terms of priority and work package definition. Your team is the main team to keep the complete AD/ADAS together, from sensors to actuators, but to succeed you also have neighboring teams with focus on specific areas of AD/ADAS and you will be interacting with them on a very regular basis. We think you are a person that has a strong interest, even a passion for AD/ADAS, and wants to be part of the big shift into autonomous driving vehicles and new customer experiences.

 

The team is responsible for driving the AD/ADAS needs towards the rest of the vehicle, such as steering, braking and HMI, and balance the complete design. This means that the team needs an understanding of how the different AD/ADAS functions work and their needs, to make a system design that scales over time. In this process the team collaborate closely with other teams at VCC and at our partners, and we’ve fun every day!

 

You feel confident to support and coach your team in a variety of areas such as fault/mode handling, allocation of SW, variant handling, different communication protocols, diagnostics (ISO 14229), requirement handling, robust interface design, System Safety (ISO26262) and configuration related questions.  

 

We think that you have experience from coding in your previous positions.

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 you also get energized by leading others with your leadership skills.

 

Do you fit the profile?

We believe that you have:

  • several years of experience from the automotive industry

  • experience from advanced function- and system designs and systemisation, not limited to current ADAS functions

  • experience from coding (model based or handwritten code)

  • experience from requirement development and decomposing of requirements on different abstraction layers

  • leadership competence and experience and are known for your ability to get many teams to work towards a common goal.

  • knowledge of how to apply the standards ISO26262, SOTIF and FMEA methods

  • MSc degree in Systems, control and mechatronics, Data Science, Computer engineering, Engineering Physics or equivalent from experience

  • fluent in English, spoken and written

 

Who are you?

You are a fast learning, self-driven and proactive team player with high ambitions. You are good in communication, you are curious, innovative and always eager to learn and understand your surroundings. You care about people and like to interact and work together. You take initiatives and feel responsibility for getting things done. You are always willing to offer a hand even for task you have little experience from. You are active in meetings, enthusiastic, proud to share and support others with your knowledge.  

 

If you are the one we look for, you can look forward to 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. 

 

Volvo Cars - Driving change together

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them.


Volvo Cars’ success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with around 43,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your skills and aspirations, allowing you to reach your fullest potential.

Gothenburg, SE, 40531

Job requisition ID:  72801

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