Senior Software Architect Sensor Fusion

Senior Software Architect, Sensor Fusion
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.

The Sensor Fusion team within Safety Electronics department is a tight team with strong team sense. We truly believe that our differences in culture, age and experience are what make us successful. We develop functions in embedded software to enable the fusion of information from our growing number of safety sensors in order to provide the most efficient and reliable description of the vehicle surroundings. Our contribution is of great importance to be able to maintain our position as world leading in safety and specifically in the area of autonomous driving (DriveMe project). We work with development in both research projects with external partners (such as other car manufactures, governmental organisations and universities) in an international environment, as well as advanced engineering and in industrialisation phases until the product is launched to the end customer. This gives our employees the opportunity to participate in different phases and gain a wider perspective of the complete development chain, from research to final product.

As a Senior Software Architect you will be responsible for the total Software development of the Sensor Fusion team in our Autonomous Driving program DriveMe with regards to planning, architecture, functionality fulfilment and quality assured software deliveries. You will also be responsible for the over-all integration of the different software modules within the Sensor fusion team, setting up the Software architecture for the software components to meet the demand for re-usability and flexibility of code across different programs and to perform profiling and optimisation of all delivered code. You will take part of the development of the tools to optimize Software Testing and assisting in developing the area of sensor fusion/environmental perception together with our Technical Specialist. You will be contributing with your view of the strategic direction on Software architecture that will be required to meet the needs in autonomous vehicles and for our future products to come.

Main Responsibilities

* Ensure that the Sensor fusion team deliver according to the agreed Software delivery plan
* Ensure that the implemented Sensor fusion architecture and code is adapted and optimized for the target hardware integration
* Guiding team members in developing even more efficient and optimized code
* Code review and verification of developed Software components
* Requirement definition and documentation to enable test method development and verification

Required qualifications

* MSc in Computer Science, Electronics, Mechatronics, Physics or equivalent
* Extensive working experience in development/programming in C/C++/Matlab
* Experience from SW development and the applicable development processes used to quality assure developed SW
* Computer programming education is meritorious
* Experience from developing Software for Embedded systems is meritorious
* Experience from working with ISO26262 alternatively from working with safety critical systems in other areas than the car industry will be preferable
* Familiarity with Agile development methods and Scrum and Experience from working with the tools Matlab coder, Simulink coder, Embedded coder will be an asset
* Experience from development work in the areas of signal processing, Sensor data fusion and control systems is meritorious

Personal qualities

* You are talented in planning and leading
* You are able and willing to lead development efforts, with a strong delivery orientation
* You are open to change
* Open minded and strong in cooperation with other team members
* Understand and actively work to achieve a strong network within your field of operation

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 or by e-mail [email protected].
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 then March 19th, 2015.