Data Scientist within Electromobility i Göteborg

Let's create the future together.

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?

Where You’ll Belong
The Vehicle Propulsion Data Analytics team analyzes data with a focus on battery, charging and electric drive to gain insight into how our products work and ensures the customer experience gets better every day. Do you like to improve the quality of our cars by bringing better and faster feedback to developers and product designers? Then the role as Software Developer in our Data Analytics team is the place for you to prosper.

We are a tight-knit group with a friendly and enthusiastic team spirit. We have many clear, concrete, and inspirational opportunities within our team and organization to apply your data science skills. We strongly believe that personal/professional development is an important factor in delivering high-quality results, and we engage in multiple various activities within and outside of work to support this. You might have a book tip to share in our book club.

What You’ll Do
You will play a key role in empowering data-driven product development at Volvo Cars by guiding the organization to becoming a more mature and comprehensive data-driven business. 

You will provide statistical analysis of data to help stakeholders gain better insight into product behavior, you will use machine learning and statistics to make predictive models for vehicle systems and visualization techniques to present complex results in a clear and understandable way.

You will also get to develop your own clean code in languages like Python or R as well as review your colleagues’ code and provide feedback. You will hold and take part in workshops to share useful skills and experiences in the team. Last but not least you will automate continuous feedback on software quality.

Who are You?
We love what we do, and we think it’s important that you do as well. You are eager to learn and develop your knowledge and skillset as well as to support others with their personal and professional growth. You are also open to listening to ideas from others, even when they may be less experienced in a given area – ambitious while remaining humble!

Key Competencies
•    Apply statistical methods to analyze and solve problems
•    Proven skills in machine learning and statistical modeling
•    Knowledge of visualization tools, e.g. matplotlib, seaborn, ggplot2, plotly
•    Ability to write well-structured, tested, and readable code in Python that complies with PEP 8 and other best practices
•    Basic scientific computing libraries such as numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, statsmodels
•    Basic proficiency with git
•    Comfortable developing software with Linux systems

Meritorious
•    Experience within the automotive and diagnostics domain
•    Business intelligence tools, e.g. Dash, Streamlit, PowerBI, Azure App Service
•    SQL and NOSQL database technologies.
•    Cloud technologies such as Azure and AWS
•    Distributed computing technologies such as Spark, Dask, Hadoop, Jax
•    Computing platforms such as Databricks, Jupyter, Sympathy/CDE, Orange
•    Virtualization/containerization technologies such as Docker, chroot, KVM, venv
•    Linux server administration

How to Learn More and Apply
Please submit your application via our career site as soon as possible, but no later than the 25th of November. Please note that due to GDPR we do not accept any applications per e-mail.
 
If you have any questions about the position please contact Hiring Manager Magnus Hedene via email magnus.hedene@volvocars.com , for questions regarding the recruitment process, please reach out to recruiter paulina.de.sousa.vieira@volvocars.com . 
 

Who are we?

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them. 

Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.

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