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At AVL, our success is largely dependent on our highly qualified employees. One of our goals as an employer is to be a project-oriented organization that allows our employees to do what they do best: innovate. This requires an attention to detail and excellence that is maintained and amplified through professional and personal development.

We know that no one is perfect, but we also understand that through focused training and career advancement, we can achieve excellence. That is why we invest a large amount of time and energy supporting our staff to improve their technical and personal skills. We give you the opportunity to grow as an expert within the company by not only offering additional training but also by providing a creative environment where experimentation is encouraged. Join us and continue your personal career development.

Career Paths

At AVL, the wide variety of technical or business fields that we operate in, as well as the diverse range of customers we have, are not easily matched by other organizations in the automotive industry. To fulfil our obligations to our customers in these areas, a career at AVL can take you down either a Leadership Career path or an Expert Career path.

We offer continuous professional development to our people in all of the many fields we specialize in. Each individual employee’s development opportunities are evaluated at least once a year during our Annual Performance and Development Appraisal.

In the course of this yearly development talk, employees get the opportunity to proactively contribute to their own professional advancement. This can either be in the form of further development within their current path, or it might even offer them the chance to change their path completely.

Expert career path

The Expert Career path at AVL emphasizes the importance of specialist experts in the ongoing success of our business. This path can be found in all of our fields of business and structured with of a grading system that consists of five levels. This structure has been designed to enable career advancement in areas that range from research to development, service, project management, product management and sales (among others).

On the Expert Career path, you will develop and master relevant skills in order to show outstanding performance and expertise within the company, as well as when interacting with customers. By the time you become a high-ranking expert, you will be directly involved in professional decision-making processes at AVL.

Leadership career path

We believe management entails a lot more than just managing people and projects. If, alongside your expert knowledge, one of your strengths is to help people develop, then we offer good opportunities to prepare and guide you towards becoming a leader in development.

Our excellent in-house Leadership Development Program is open for talented individuals to discover if this is a path they want to take. Tools to analyze your potential and joint programs with business schools in Austria and all over the world offer you everything you need to flourish. As many previous candidates will confirm, this is a unique personal and professional experience that lets you manage your own development according to your own competences and interests.

How could your career look like?

Calibration Engineer

Bence

"What I find most fulfilling about my role as a Calibration Engineer is the opportunity to operate at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and regulatory compliance in the automotive industry."

Design Engineer Transmission

Bence

"Our projects require teamwork: apart from the self-evident daily cooperation within the team and other fields of expertise around the AVL-World, we also rely on inputs from suppliers and even research facilities to fulfil the customer's needs."

Skill Team Leader

Daniel

"Our team is where you have lot of fun while also solving seemingly unsolvable technical tasks and bugs; and having tough technical disputes with each other. All this happens in a very supportive, respectful mood."

AVL Academy

The AVL Academy, our internal training hub, provides a diverse range of skill development programs for both general (social, personal) and specialized (technical, product-focused) competencies for all our employees.

Our training initiatives are tailored to meet AVL's business requirements, ensuring high-quality content, instructional design, and delivery methodologies. Leveraging modern learning technologies such as virtual learning, e-learning, blended learning, and web-based training, we prioritize flexibility, enabling participants from around the globe to engage without constraints of location or time.

Our AVL Academy features multiple cutting-edge training facilities conducive to face-to-face interactions, fostering social engagement and collaboration among participants.