Software 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.

WHO YOU ARE

You want to take part in the transition of the automotive industry to be more software based which enables a better user experience like advanced driver assist and self-driving cars. You enjoy looking for seemingly simple solutions to complex problems in cooperation with other colleagues and teams. You enjoy sharing your knowledge around technical problems and deepening your technical skills. You are a customer-oriented person who enjoys being part of a team where you take own initiatives and take pride in your own and the team’s deliveries. At the core is a humble attitude with a passion for advanced software development, continuous learning, and team collaboration.

THIS IS WHAT YOUR NEW COLLEAGUES DO

We are building a high-performance computer-in-the-car architecture with software frameworks to enable easy and seamless services and application development for the Volvo Cars embedded platform. A key success factor for enabling innovation and wonderful user experience on the current and future car models such as EX90, ES90 and EX60.
We are leaders in the paradigm shift that is happening in the car industry. Our mission is to create a vehicle computer platform using new technologies like NVIDIA DRIVE™ OS and NVIDIA’s latest chip technology in combination with the BlackBerry™ QNX operating system and more traditional car signaling technologies. We are dedicated to deliver platform functions simplifying the application development to create a safe, reliable, and secure platform solution within Volvo Cars for increased innovation and speed. The location is Lund, Sweden

WHAT YOU WILL DO

As a software developer in our group, you will work as part of an agile team, building solutions which are safe and reliable. You will write software enabling our solutions to be compliant with the highest safety grades in the car industry. The team you are joining is, together with three other teams, responsible for the Application and Service framework in our high-performance node in the core computer. Together, we are providing frameworks which support our large community of internal application developers that create fantastic state-of-the-art customer functions.

In this position you will:

• Innovate, develop and maintain a rich set of framework functionality and tools enabling and simplifying services and application development for the software platform in the Volvo cars
• Use state-of-the-art software languages, such as C++ and Python, and techniques to deliver performance optimizations and a variety of software platform functionalities
• Collaborate within and across teams to deliver value in the High-Performance Platform node on the Volvo Cars core computer in a car software and electronics platform
• Perform feature and story refinement including architectural designs
• Conduct fault tracing on emulators and hardware together with different knowledge groups, using hardware that you can have by your desk all the way up to fully drivable cars
• Work in a highly empowered agile team that is responsible for creating everything from requirements and software architecture to deployments and automated tests