Crash Safety – Pedestrian Protection CAE Analysis Engineer

We are looking for a Pedestrian Protection CAE Analysis Engineer to join Safety Centre at Volvo Cars Headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden.
At Volvo Cars Safety Centre, highly skilled professionals strive every day for making the world a safer place for car drivers and everyone else on the road. We are proud of our track record to date including numerous world’s firsts, all based on real world research and knowledge. The future challenges and opportunities are exciting and through advanced technology and research we are developing safety with regard to injury prevention and collision avoidance, in addition to areas like Autonomous Drive, HMI, emotional safety and driver behavior.

What you’ll do
You will perform advanced finite element simulations with the aim to analyze and develop safety performance in our future cars.
Your main task will be safety integration analysis within pedestrian protection.

Your main responsibilities will be to create virtual simulation models (CAE), perform pedestrian protection simulations and analyses based on results from both virtual and physical test, and participate in development of technical solutions and numerical methods.
As CAE first Analysis Engineer you have the ability to draw conclusions from the detailed analysis and see the broader perspective. You understand the parameters and connections between them, you find solutions and deliver clear recommendations to the ARTs.
You will participate in method development and contribute to development of system requirements. You will lead smaller projects, process, method and tool developments. You will act as mentor for engineers with less experience.

Top Skills
We believe you have a M.Sc. in Engineering and high competence in CAE tools such as LS-Dyna, Ansa and Meta Post.
You have analytical competence and experience within CAE pedestrian protection analysis.
Your also need to be fluent in English, both written and spoken.
Experience within CAE structure analysis, knowledge of Volvo product development process, experience from other OEMs in CAE Safety area, and skills in TeamCenter, VisMockup, CATIA, Python or Matlab are meritorious.

On a personal level
We are looking for an analytical, self-driven, result oriented and flexible person who like to collaborate with others to achieve shared objectives. You should also have a positive attitude, a structured way of working, and good documentation skills.