Passive Safety System Test Engineer

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Polestar is an electric performance brand, determined to improve the society we live in. Our focus is on uncompromised design and technology. We constantly redefine the norm and challenge ourselves to shine. Passion and emotion drive us, electricity and innovation drive our cars. Our products are excellent, efficient and entertaining.In Polestar’s future, there is no room for shortcuts, excuses or compromises. We are all in, dedicated on our ambition. Guiding our industry forward through pure, progressive performance.Due to aggressive growth plans Polestar is currently looking to recruit a Passive Systems Engineer.Let Us Describe The Challenge We OfferSystem development within passive safety is crucial to the success of any original equipment manufacturer (OEM). This ensures that the systems designed and provided to our customers is safe as well as meeting their demands. The want for protective safety systems (SRS) has been ever very important. Meaning that monitoring and evaluating competitors is necessary to gaining a competitive advantage.Understanding, optimising, and regulating is key in this role. Helping others in the team to understand both system and component requirements, is essential to ensure that the chosen systems fulfil the planned functionality in our products.You will be responsible for the test and validation of the system, by helping in crash signoff and DVP testing balancing technical, logical, and economical solutions based on the identified requirements. Verifying system functional requirements and performing assessments in the projects.What You’ll DoThe Passive Safety Systems Engineer is responsible for but not limited to…

• Understanding and working to constraints such as commonality and carry-over systems.
• Coordination of test plans, including samples, fixtures, schedules, signoffs, witnessing tests, and sample reviews.
• Prepare, publish and issue engineering reports ensuring crash and DVP system sign off are complete.
• Planning strategies for system development, documenting in technical/logical plans, reporting on the status, revising based on inputs, and being rational in raising concerns or issues.
• Documenting the decision-making process of alternative solutions, including technology, time, and cost. Including the final requirements, technical solution, and decision.
• Propelling multidisciplinary development, by leading or supporting cross disciplinal views from requirement to realisation. For example, functionality, controls, and architectures; electrical, mechanical, and IT.

Who You Are

• University degree educated or equivalent in a technical area.
• Knowledgeable within automotive tools.
• Able to demonstrate experience from working within automotive research and development; systems, testing, and computer aided engineering (CAE). Preferably within development work regarding passive safety, and protective safety systems.
• Experienced in developing test methods and sequences for system testing.
• Knowledgeable within passive safety testing prerequisites, system requirements cascading & analysis methods, for example Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Able to demonstrate technical leadership, business acumen, system engineering methods, and project management methods.
• Fluent in English, both verbally and written.
• Excited and willing to support teams.

Personal attributesIn order to succeed at Polestar you will need to possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills as the ability to build effective working relationships across multiple disciples is paramount. Attitude is everything at Polestar, we are always pushing boundaries and in order to achieve the unimaginable you must have a can-do approach and an open mind to endless possibilities.If you believe you have what it takes to work at the heart of automotive innovation, then we look forward to reviewing your application.At Polestar, the sky is not the limit.