Technical Specialist within the area of Vision Sensing at Autonomous Drive

Innovation starts with being curious.
At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us?

We’re on a truly exciting journey, working together in a fast-paced global environment to break new ground in almost every aspect of our operations. Now we are in a paradigm shift when it comes to the automotive industry. Self-driving vehicles is the next important step in Volvo Car Group's development of the world's safest cars.

The department Active Safety & Autonomous Drive consists of over 400 ambitious and skilled engineers and is responsible for all the way from research and advanced engineering to industrialization of current and future customer offers. We have a global footprint and we have collaborations with our Tech Offices in Silicon Valley and Lund.

We are now looking for a Technical Specialist within the area of Computer Vision.

We are already today a number of Technical Specialists within the Autonomous Drive and Active Safety function, being a team that focus on emerging technologies. As technical expert within the computer vision area, you will join the emerging tech team that consists of people with mixed skills and backgrounds. Together you have an important mission in our tech scouting efforts in the quest of finding new interesting technologies that can be explored further in order to support our strive of being a leading company within Autonomous Drive, ADAS (Advanced Driver Assist Systems) and Protective Safety.
 

What will you do?
As a Technical expert, you will lead and guide the organisation within your area of competence. You will take on the responsibility to promote and drive the technology used internally and externally by capturing research, technology and business trends. You manage technology roadmaps and lead strategic discussions. You also take part of evaluating new SoC’s and ASiCs from a computer vision application perspective.

You will bring new ideas and prototypes to life together with other groups internally or with external parties such as start-ups, universities or other more established companies with interesting technologies in their product portfolio. It is an important part of your responsibilities to work cross functional together with different teams, practicing innovation from end to end, i.e. from exploration/ideation towards concrete implementation in our future products, achieving success as one team.

We will encourage and expect you to participate in different forums within your area of expertise, but also being a speaker at conferences and delivering conference papers. You will also be responsible to deliver educational material and teaching activities for your internal colleagues.

You and your profile
To be successful in this job, you need to have excellent knowledge within development of classical computer vision based algorithms. Your expertise lies within computer vision and/or machine learning, especially deep learning. You should also have some competence within deep learning development and architectures associated with deep learning within computer vision related applications. Other qualifications we are looking for are:
•    PhD or M.Sc in Electrical Engineering /Computer Science /Physics or equivalent practical experience.
•    Proven experience with frameworks such as Tensorflow, Keras, Pytorch.
•    Experience in working with software development in embedded real time systems.
•    Fluency in Python and/or C/C++.
•    Fluent in English.

On a personal level, we see that you have an entrepreneurial approach and that you thrive by “thinking outside the box”. We are looking for curious people that are continuously searching for new knowledge. We like a hands-on approach to problems – learning by doing. You also need to be communicative and team oriented, we expect you to have an interest in building strong collaborative networks inside and outside Volvo Cars.

What do we offer?
We can offer you the chance to join a rapidly growing team working on one of the largest challenges the automotive industry has ever seen; autonomous driving is a high profile, high tech field with an exciting future at the heart of Volvo Car’s business plans. Within this, we offer an environment of every day learning, challenges and continuous feedback and the opportunity to have fun. Your long-term competence plan will include steps to expand your knowledge. We will support you to reach your full potential. Join us on this exciting journey into the future!
 

How to learn more and apply
Does this sound fun and as the next step in your career? We apply a continuous selection process and recommend that you submit your application in English as soon as possible, but no later than April 14, 2019. Note that we do not accept applications via e-mails.

If you have any questions regarding the position, you are welcome to contact Andreas Wallin, Manager Emerging Technologies, [email protected].

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, you are welcome to contact Katinka Haug Hornborg, Recruitment Consultant, [email protected].

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 endeavor 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. 

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