Connected Safety Application Designer

Connected Safety Application Designer

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.

Volvo Car Group is aiming to take the lead within Highly Automated Driving. Entering the field of self-driving vehicles is the next giant leap in Volvo Car Group's development of the world's safest cars. The Highly Automated Driving and Connected Safety development team at Volvo Car Group is dedicated to bringing self-driving cars to the market, starting with the Swedish project "Drive Me", which is intended to shift the current driving paradigm and take advantage of automation to promote sustainable, individual mobility.

The team is now looking for a Connected Safety Application Designer, a position that is related to a new and expanding area in active safety and driver support. Adding wireless information and cloud processing to active safety represents a significant step. Our long-term vision of "making cars that do not crash" needs cloud connectivity in order to come true. Creating new solutions will require new thinking. The work environment is agile, challenging and dynamic.

Main responsibilities

* Develop new software functions for active safety and driver support, intended to run in the vehicle and interact with a cloud service
* Work in early development phases, in advanced engineering phase and also the research phase
* There is also an opportunity to project-lead research and advanced engineering assignments in this area

Required qualifications

* M.Sc. Computer Science, Mechatronics, or similar
* At least 3 years of work experience within a relevant area
* Programming/modelling skills: Matlab Simulink, C, java, C#
* Experience from network protocols and protocol design
* Driver's license B
* Experience from connected cloud active safety function development is meritorious

Personal qualities

* Communication ability, especially regarding complex technical issues
* Good ability to work in a small, agile team
* Holistic understanding of the needs of the end customer

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 premium car brand". And we believe our global success will be driven by making life less complicated for people, while strengthening our commitment to safety, quality and the environment. 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 +46 729 889828 by e-mail nadja.bergman@randstad.se.
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 the 11th of June, 2015.