Solution Architect Safe Vehicle Automation

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 do we offer?
We live in a ground-breaking era of time. Self-driving vehicles are soon a reality, the electrification direction is definite and the energy efficiency race is running. Safe Vehicle Automation is the place where innovations grow and the systems developed and joined together, creating the optimized vehicle experience.

The department Concept andStrategy within unit Safe Vehicle Automation is home organization for the solution architect team, legislation management and research coordination.

As Solution Architect you will find yourself together with experienced solution architects working both internally within Safe Vehicle Automation as well as cooperate with architects, not only across R&D, but also colleagues in external companies that we cooperate with. Your task is to ensure the architectural runway over time, an architecture that has the ability to effectively support feature and function development as well as effective sensor and actuator control within all areas of SVA responsibility.


Do you fit the profile?
We believe that you have a Master of Science in Electrical-, Mechanical-, Mechatronic Engineering, Applied Physics or equivalent and at least 5-10 years of experience from mechatronic development task, systems engineering and system dimensioning and optimization. You have experience from all product development phases, advanced engineering, concept and industrialization. Moreover, we see that you have previous experience from leading tasks in a cross-functional environment. You are furthermore fluent in English, spoken and in writing.


Who are you?
As a person, you are structured and have good analytical skills. Moreover, you are innovative and have leadership qualities. We believe that you have the ability to work independently but also enjoy being a part of the development team. You are capable of both, focusing on daily issues as well as long term visions.

You seek to continuously improve your technical leadership with the purpose to make others grow and take responsibility for the complete system solution. You take a systematic approach to visualizing and handling architectural technical debt. You are communicative and can use suitable value argumentation in your dialogues.


How to learn more and apply
Does this sound like your next challenge? We now have 2 positions for this role. If you have any additional questions, please contact the hiring manager Håkan Larsson at hakan.larsson@volvocars.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process please contact Malin Westman senior recruiter at malin.westman@volvocars.com.

Kindly register your application as soon as possible but not later than April 11th. And please note that we do not accept application through E-mail, due to GDPR.