Senior Embedded Controls Engineer, Vehicle Motion

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Fords Electric Vehicles Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the companys 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. Youll 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. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

What youll do...
Create and implement the control strategy for various vehicle motion attributes and functions including lateral and longitudinal vehicle dynamics.
Work with suppliers to define functions and interfaces into 3rd party components driving further consolidation and integration of vehicle functions into our centralized vehicle motion control system.
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.
Author subsystem block diagrams and lead subsystem reviews through all vehicle program development phases
Collaborate with other system integration leads to capture component level requirements provide subject matter expertise in sourcing discussions and collect and approve Device Transmittals.
Early phases of firmware development will focus on hardware validation labcar testing and setting up the automation framework for unit SIL and HIL testing.

Youll have...

Masters degree in electrical engineering Mechanical Engineering or Computer Science with evidence of exceptional ability or equivalent.
10 years of experience on embedded controls systems such as chassis systems VCM or similar dynamic functions.
10 years of experience on electrical hardware applications prototype bring-up and systems development.
10 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.)
10 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 developing features such as hill hold stability controls anti-lock braking park assist cruise or adaptive cruise control or other similar vehicle dynamic features.
• 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 codeoptimization.
• Knowledge ofelectrical engineering fundamentals including circuit analysis and design

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 8.

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