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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.

What could your career look like?

President Test Systems Inc.

Joe

"Data is really at the core of what we do. This is the open architecture of our hardware and software portfolio. It affects the way we develop our methodologies and even how we structure our business to support these customers."

Project Engineer I – Design

Ayson

"Being at the forefront of the green energy revolution is both a privilege and a responsibility. Through innovation, we're not just developing new technologies – we're shaping the future of transportation."

Technical Sales Specialist

Jeff

"With changes in the market driving a lot of change in day-to-day work, you're always doing something new and learning about new types of motors and mobility."

Department Manager of Order Management

Martina

"Each workday is an adventure. While you may have an agenda, the day constantly evolves, ensuring that no two days are ever the same and always offering new opportunities to learn."

Customer Support Coordinator

Nick

"It's very exciting to be on the forefront to see where these new technologies are going and how the companies are applying them using our equipment."

Director of Sales Engineering and Operations

Lisa works as a Director of Sales Engineering and Operations at AVL in the United States.

Chief Engineer - Electrification

Ilker

"Systems engineering is an enabler of fast development, high confidence in the design, and more efficient validation because a systems engineer ensures the integrity of the system."

Project Engineer I

Ryan works as a Project Engineer within the Advanced Development Methods group at AVL in the United States.

Department Manager Order Management

Martina

"I can honestly say that I have learned something new every day. Each day is an adventure, and by the end of the day, it is completely taken a different turn."

Customer Service Operations Manager

Seth works as a Customer Service Operations Manager at AVL in the United States.

Department Manager Design, Simulation and Analysis

Ken

"Design can mean so many different things, but for us as a mobility technology company, it means taking the specifications and requirements, finding or designing the right components, assemblies, and subsystems to make a product a real, handheld product, not just an idea."

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.