Design Engineer

at  Volvo Cars AB

SOFTWARE: FUEL FOR MOBILITY

We bring bold digital visions to life. So we’re on the lookout for more curious and creative engineers who want to create change – one line of high-quality code at a time. Our transformation isn’t for everyone, but if you’re excited about solving the leading-edge technological challenges facing the auto industry, then let’s talk about your next move.
What you’ll do
At Electric Propulsion we constitute the core competence center in Northern Europe regarding Li-ion battery technology and automotive battery systems. We are responsible for future of battery cell strategies and to support our suppliers to develop tailormade battery cells for Volvo Cars, but also to find solutions for other brands with the company.
We are growing fast within the battery cell analytics area with a high possibility of influencing way of working and future technology. By bottom-up technical decisions we ensure that your voice will be heard.
The Cell Durability team is an international team with a wide range of competences, which in combination with cross functional work, enables fast learning and growth. We have fun together not only at work, hopefully you will try activities bowling, shuffleboard or some other exciting activity at our next After Work! We will make sure that you feel welcome.
Work-life Balance is something that infuses Volvo Cars, one of our teammates describe it as good management with horizontal integration. What does work-life balance mean to you? Maybe it is to have a home-baked “fredagsfika” or the benefit of our family bond*, anyhow we will not make you disappointed in this area!
This is us:
The team sets and follow up durability requirements on battery cells. Supplier life prediction and service life estimation are important characteristics that the team is responsible for.
You will be responsible for analyzing the durability of battery cells and making recommendations towards responsible engineer and to the projects. You will be analyzing a large amount of test data and treat the data in a structured way.
For future development of batteries, we collaborate closely with universities and have joint ventures with other companies in the field of electrification.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Project durability deliveries in different phases of the project; fulfilment of durability requirement.
• Define cell durability test matrixes and test codes.
• Secure cell data from labs
• Analyzing a large amount of cell data using Python scripts
• Close collaboration with surrounding teams
• Feed cell data to CAE simulation and visualization tools
• Participate in advanced engineering projects exploring new cell technology, test methods, cell usage strategy and ageing mechanisms.
• Documentation in a structured way and participate in continuous development of way of working.

What you‘ll bring
The battery cell is a key component, we interact with different internal stakeholders and many teams are dependent on our input, therefore deep knowledge in cell chemistry and cell materials are essential for this role as well as a collaborative mindset and project management skills.
You also have experience with handling large amount of data and have documented skills using Python or similar. You are analytical and love problem-solving.
It is a creative and challenging work in a new field with many new areas to discover. It is important that you enjoy sharing information and knowledge with your colleagues.
We are looking for a teammate with experience from cell design and/or cell integration and production, who share our passion for Li-ion battery technology. Have you been the main contact person between battery suppliers and OEMs?

Key skills and preferred experience:

• General interest in automotive electrification.
• Knowledge on cell chemistry and cell design.
• Experience working with electro chemistry & Li-ion battery cells.
• Knowledge on main factor influencing battery degradation.
• Basic knowledge on battery ageing mechanisms.
• Basic knowledge on battery life prediction model principles.
• Practical experience in working with battery cell testing and data analysis.
• Experience in analyzing large amount of data using Python/MATLAB.

• Project durability deliveries in different phases of the project; fulfilment of durability requirement.
• Define cell durability test matrixes and test codes.
• Secure cell data from labs
• Analyzing a large amount of cell data using Python scripts
• Close collaboration with surrounding teams
• Feed cell data to CAE simulation and visualization tools
• Participate in advanced engineering projects exploring new cell technology, test methods, cell usage strategy and ageing mechanisms.
• Documentation in a structured way and participate in continuous development of way of working