Graduate Apprentice Trainee (System Engineering, NATS)
Volvo — Bengaluru, Karnataka
₹3–4 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time · onsite
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Quick answer: A fixed-term apprenticeship under the government's NATS scheme, sitting with the team that tests engines and vehicles, generates and analyses the data, and builds simulation models for OBD functions. The degree requirement is narrow: mechanical or automobile engineering.
From Volvo's job posting
Location
Bangalore, IN, 562122
Position Type: Student
Permanent/Temporary: Temporary
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
As a System Engineer, you will be
- Handling tasks on application engineering: Engine and Vehicle testing, Data generation, its analysis, Customer Adaptation and In-vehicle Protocol tests.
- Responsible for Homologation and Certification/CoP support: Support engine and vehicle testing of our various stakeholders at different test sites
- Use relevant tools like MATLAB, Simulink, Python to build the models and to run simulations for OBD for various functions.
- Contributing through simulations to find the Root Cause and providing sustainable long-term solutions for challenging field issues.
Required Knowledge/ Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/Automobile engineering (or similar)
- A passion to work with automobiles and commercial vehicles, Prior exposure to mechanical and common rail fuel injection systems/engines
- Exposure to automobile testing, Engine Dyno Testing
- Experience in student competitions such as SAE Baja, supra with work on powertrain components
- Knowledge of emission and OBD calibration would be a bonus.
- Prior exposure to simulation software such as MATLAB Simulink
- Ability to work with large sets of data for analysis.
- Prior exposure to instrumentation such as data loggers and sensors and knowledge in communication protocols (CAN/LIN)
- A willingness to learn and take more responsibility with can-do attitude.
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Open to travel locally and for assignments
As per NATS guidelines
The employer’s company overview, benefits and equal-opportunity statement are left out here; they are on the original posting.
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HireSetu's note
The job behind the title
Read system engineering in the automotive sense here: engine and vehicle testing, data generation and analysis, in-vehicle protocol tests, plus homologation and certification support. You'll be at test sites, on dynos and inside vehicles, not at a desk writing software. The simulation side, MATLAB and Simulink models for OBD functions, exists to explain field problems and trace root causes.
The degree filter is strict: mechanical or automobile engineering. Everything else the listing asks for is about time spent near real hardware, such as common rail fuel injection, dyno testing, data loggers, sensors, CAN and LIN. A season in an SAE Baja or Supra powertrain team counts for more on this desk than a high CGPA.
Hard filters and the rest
Mechanical or automobile bachelor's, fluent English and willingness to travel are the three items you can't work around. Travel is local and to other test sites, and on a testing team that can mean weeks away at a stretch. Sort that out with yourself before you apply, since the apprenticeship runs as per NATS guidelines and the placement is fixed for its duration.
The exposure list is where the sorting actually happens. Dyno time, common rail systems and instrumentation are written as prior exposure, but plenty of applicants will have SAE Baja behind them, so the ones who have logged and analysed their own data stand apart. Emission and OBD calibration is called a bonus: if you have it, put it above your coursework.
MATLAB and Simulink are named in the job description; Python sits in the skills list. If your Simulink use was a college lab exercise, build one small model that reads a dataset and plots a result. It gives you something concrete to discuss.
Drafted with AI from Volvo's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
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