Sr. Infotainment Component Engineer Compute and Connectivity

We made history and now we work to transform the future for our customers our communities and our families. Youll see your work on the road every day helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

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.

In this position...
As a Sr Infotainment Component Engineer you will be the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for Fords High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) and Telematics Control Unit (TCU) across their complete vehicle lifecycle.
You will lead a broad technical community spanning systems engineering software electrical hardware validation manufacturing service cybersecurity quality program management and suppliers. Success requires the ability to understand system behavior identify integration risk early and drive issues to durable resolution.

What youll do...

Lead component integration: Coordinate hardware software calibration diagnostics cybersecurity validation and production teams to integrate ECUs into the vehicle electrical system across bench HIL vehicle build commissioning and production readiness activities.
Manage suppliers: Partner closely with contract manufacturers and suppliers to ensure internally developed hardware and software are built to specification meet quality expectations and are delivered on schedule.
Validate bench and lab-car functionality: Confirm system behavior interface readiness and integration maturity across bench desktop and lab-car environments before vehicle-level validation.
Drive root-cause resolution: Lead structured investigation of software hardware network diagnostic and vehicle-level issues.
Own verification planning: Ensure verification plans cover functional behavior electrical performance communications diagnostics cybersecurity environmental conditions and vehicle integration.
Control release readiness and manage change: Ensure hardware software calibration drawings requirements interface definitions configuration records diagnostics network behavior and supplier content are complete controlled and released at program milestones.
Support launch readiness: Partner with plant and manufacturing engineering to establish calibration routines configuration writes VIN consumption in-line factory software programming netloader operations dealer service diagnostics supplier recovery actions production readiness service readiness and post-launch technical support.

Youll have...

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Systems Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

Experience: 7 years of automotive ECU/embedded systems engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of complex electronic control systems from development through vehicle launch.
Module Ownership & Launch Execution: Proven ability to lead ECU or electronic control module delivery through DVP&R execution BOM management supplier coordination vehicle integration validation and high-volume launch readiness.
ECU Configuration & Diagnostics: Experience with bootloader interfaces vehicle configuration calibration end-of-line programming and service diagnostics.
Issue Resolution & Leadership: Experience leading structured cross-functional issue resolution and managing integration dependencies for complex ECU programs throughout development and launch.
Change Control: Experience assessing and controlling engineering changes that impact component behavior cost timing quality or vehicle integration.
Lab & Diagnostic Tooling: Hands-on experience with automotive network/protocol analyzers diagnostic loggers oscilloscopes and software debugging tools.
Safety & Quality Methodologies: Experience applying FMEA HARA and ISO 26262 functional safety standards.

Even better you may have...

Connectivity Integration: Experience integrating vehicle telematics platforms across 4G/5G cellular single/dual-band GNSS Wi-Fi and 100Base-T1 Ethernet including validation of highbandwidth cloud-connected vehicle features.
System Interface Coordination: Experience coordinating HPCC-TCU interfaces such as VLAN routing and OTA orchestration across cross-functional engineering quality purchasing and plant teams.
Compute & Power Architecture: Strong understanding of multi-SoC hardware architectures 48V low-voltage power systems power management sleep/wake behavior thermal constraints signal integrity and vehicle communications.
UDS Diagnostics: Deep working knowledge of UDS routines and commands DTCs DIDs Component Master Authority (CMA) Service $27 security access and diagnostic softwareupdate workflows.
Cybersecurity: Knowledge of automotive cybersecurity controls authenticated communications secure diagnostics secure bootloader interfaces and threat-driven interface requirements.
PLM & Release Processes: Experience managing Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) and release processes within PLM systems such as 3DX or ENOVIA.
Requirements Management: Experience managing and cascading component functional and interface requirements using industry-standard requirements-management platforms.

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 and ranges from $138800-$232700.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.

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