Sr Hardware Engineer

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As a Hardware Engineer in Fords Advanced Networking Group you will own signal integrity and hardware robustness for highspeed invehicle communication links. This team identifies and develops optimal networking technologies for Fords nextgeneration electrical architectureintroducing new solutions and enhancing existing onesto reduce overall system cost while ensuring electrical robustness for automotive use.

You will author Layer 12 networking specifications and design verification documents used across all Ford vehicle programs lead hardware design reviews and perform simulations and lab validation for network interfaces. Depending on experience and qualifications this position may be filled at the Senior Hardware Engineer level.

What youll do...

• Analyze circuit designs against industry standards and automotive requirements for signal integrity (SI) and electrical robustness.

• Perform simulations to identify and resolve potential issues; conduct lab measurements for validation and correlation.

• Define SI budgets for individual segments (board cable connectors etc.) considering jitter noise crosstalk and EMI/EMC.

• Formulate boardlevel requirements for layout interconnects routing termination and supporting components for endtoend design.

• Develop design verification test methods and execute tests in accordance with applicable industry and internal standards.

• Lead functionalfailure rootcause analysis and corrective actions for prototypes and production vehicles.

• Lead componentlevel qualification of networking components for use at Ford by reviewing EMI/EMC interoperability and other conformance reports.

• Interface with Product Development teamsElectromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Electrical Distribution Systems (EDS) and Vehicle Validationto integrate SI considerations throughout the development process.

• Provide technical guidance to Product Development on feasibility design alternatives and design oversight for invehicle network implementations.

• Contribute to industry standards efforts to reduce component cost improve test automation and address common automotive challenges in collaboration with industry experts.

• Collaborate with software and firmware teams to support hardware bringup and testing.

• Build strong relationships with silicon cable and connector vendors to evaluate and introduce emerging technologies.

Youll have...

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent technical discipline.

• 5 years of progressive experience in electronic hardware design with significant focus on complex highspeed digital and mixedsignal designs.

• 2 years of experience with SI simulation and/or PCB design tools such as Altium Designer Mentor Graphics Cadence Allegro Siemens HyperLynx Cadence Sigrity Ansys HFSS/SIwave Polar Instruments etc.

• 2 years of handson experience with electrical test equipment; proficient with oscilloscopes vector network analyzers (VNA) time domain reflectometers (TDR) and circuit board rework.

• Familiarity with industrystandard automotive communication interfaces (e.g. CAN LIN SerDes PCIe Ethernet).

• Proficiency in transmission line theory Sparameters bit error rate (BER) testing crosstalk characteristic impedance eye diagrams and timedomain analysis.

• Strong understanding of EMC/EMI principles in automotive applications.

• Background in highreliability electronics designed for highvolume production including use of DFMEA and worstcase analysis (WCA) to develop robust designs.

Even better you may have...

• PhD with 3 years of relevant hardware/SI experience or Masters degree with 7 years of relevant hardware/SI experience.

• 5 years of experience with SI simulation and PCB design tools.

• Indepth knowledge of transmission line and electromagnetic theory.

• Automotive networking experience (e.g. 10BASET1S 100/1000BASET1 MultiGig T1 GMSL/FPDLink CAN FD LIN).

• Deep understanding of typical vehicle EE architectures and automotive development processes.

• Experience with networking hardware network architectures/topologies data rates configurations and protocols.

• Experience with EMC/EMI standards and testing (e.g. Ford FMC 1278 ISO 7637 series CISPR 25 CISPR 12).

• Experience capturing and authoring requirements and technical specifications.

• Experience using vehicle diagnostic tools to troubleshoot analyze and resolve network issues.

• Experience working with automotive standards organizations such as IEEE SAE Automotive SerDes Alliance (ASA) and the OPEN Alliance.

• Selfstarter who takes ownership of loosely defined goals drives clarity where needed and collaborates effectively across functions to deliver results.

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.

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This position is a range of salary grades 5 - 8 .

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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