Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out.

Responsibilities

Create control/estimation algorithms for various body control features like window control, closure system, and lighting.

Lead the design and integration of various body controls hardware components on electrical test assets such as benches, bucks, labcars, and vehicles.

Collaborate with software integration teams to bring up core functions and broadcast software level requirements to electrical hardware and systems teams.

Understand functional safety principles and participate in functional safety analyses of complex vehicle subsystems.

Develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions, including low power modes.

Spearhead body controls feature development, working cross-functionally with hardware, software, architecture, and many other teams to author feature boundary diagrams and validation strategies.

Author subsystem block diagrams and lead subsystem reviews through all vehicle program development phases

Early phases of firmware development will focus on hardware validation, labcar testing, and setting up the automation framework for unit, SIL and HIL testing.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Computer Science, with evidence of exceptional ability, or equivalent experience.

7+ years of experience on electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.

7+ years of experience with Vehicle Network Protocols such as CAN, LIN & Automotive Ethernet

Strong EE fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, signal generators, power supplies, etc.)

7+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools for automotive, aerospace, or similar field.

Experience and working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, battery technologies, software/hardware tool development, motor calibration technologies, OBD calibration, functional safety, network, and diagnostics process

Experience with creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning all test results.

Even better, you may have...

Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills

Experience in driver development and RTOS integration.

Experience with software build tools like Bazel, Scons, Cmake etc.

Experience with fundamental hardware components on PCB and their analysis tools.

Ability to write testing scripts for using scripting languages (Python)

Fluent in software fundamentals including software design and maintainability.

Hands-on experience in hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.

Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including circuit analysis and design

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In this position, you will interact with feature owners and software development teams to scope and define robust systems interface and software requirements, with a strong emphasis on proactive Design Failure Mode Effects and Analysis (DFMEA). This includes the process of deriving functional level requirements from feature level requirements, and utilizing a model-based systems engineering approach in conjunction with Behavior Driven Development methodology to define individual functions, use cases, sequence diagrams, and test cases, ensuring design for reliability and early identification and mitigation of potential failure modes across the In-Vehicle Infotainment and Connectivity sub-system and software levels.

Responsibilities:

• Executing functional partitioning of features, focusing on identifying and isolating potential failure points and ensuring fault tolerance.
• Developing robust and fault-tolerant interfaces between allocable classes, considering potential failure propagation and implementing safeguards.
• Specifying comprehensive system-level and ECU software requirements, explicitly defining expected behavior, error handling, and failure recovery mechanisms based on DFMEA principles.
• Adopting model-based systems engineering (MBSE) methodologies for specification development, leveraging modeling and simulation for early failure mode identification and mitigation.
• Using Requirement Management tools for requirement authoring, change management, and specification generation, ensuring traceability to DFMEA activities and reliability targets.
• Using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with Gherkin syntax to develop scenarios and associated test cases, incorporating negative test cases and failure scenarios derived from DFMEA analyses.
• Leading and performing comprehensive Design Failure Mode Effects and Analysis (DFMEA) activities throughout the product lifecycle to ensure the thoroughness, robustness, and reliability of software and system designs, proactively identifying and addressing potential failure modes.
• Managing cross-functional working level meetings with Feature/Function Owners, module owners, HMI teams, and the IVI Platform team to develop functional integration strategies that incorporate reliability and failure avoidance considerations.
• Performing rigorous system compatibility analysis and impact assessment for IVI feature deployment, specifically evaluating and mitigating potential failure modes introduced by new architectures, programs, or market variations.
• Proactively identifying, analyzing, and resolving complex technical issues at the system and interface level impacting the In-Vehicle Infotainment system, applying systematic root cause analysis and implementing design changes to prevent recurrence and enhance reliability.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer/Software/Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience with electrical architecture, electrical systems, and automotive network topologies, with a strong background in Systems Engineering and reliability principles.
• 5+ years of experience in robust requirement development, verification, and validation, with a focus on designing for reliability and testability, and experience in component/vehicle level testing for failure modes.
• Proven experience in systematically analyzing and resolving complex systems issues, employing root cause analysis, corrective action methodologies, and implementing design solutions for failure avoidance.
• In-depth knowledge of CAN, LIN, and Ethernet-based In-Vehicle Network protocols and processes, including understanding of potential failure modes and diagnostic strategies.
• Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based API design, with an understanding of fault tolerance and error handling in distributed systems.
• Knowledge of Human Factors and Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI), including considerations for usability, error prevention, and graceful degradation in failure scenarios.
• Strong knowledge of Requirements Engineering (INCOSE, EARS, BDD/Gherkin), with an ability to translate reliability and safety requirements into actionable specifications.
• Demonstrated in-depth knowledge and practical application of Design Failure Mode Avoidance (DFMA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and other reliability engineering techniques.
• Knowledge of Unified Modeling Language (UML) or System Modeling Language (SysML) for modeling system behavior, structure, and potential failure modes.
• Knowledge of Computer Programming Competencies (C++, Python, Java) for developing robust and fault-tolerant software.
• Familiarity with Automotive Infotainment Systems or other Automotive Domains, including a deep understanding of interfaces, communication protocols, features/functions, architecture, and common failure mechanisms.

Preferred qualifications include knowledge of Network tools (VehicleSpy, CANalyzer, CANoe, ValueCAN, Ethernet tools), requirement authoring tools (VSEM System Engineering, DOORS, JAMA, Polarion, etc), UML/SysML tools (IBM Rational Rhapsody, MagicDraw), Software Version Control Systems and cloud storage (Git, GitHub), VSCode, Technical Writing, Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban), and MS Office Suite.

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