Ford Motor Company

ADAS Feature Systems Engineer

Ford Motor Company • $84K — $166K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Systems or Computer Engineering or related field
  • 3+ years experience in ADAS development with sensors like radars and cameras
  • 2+ years in system engineering and requirements development
  • 2+ years leading cross-functional teams to drive ADAS features from concept to production
  • Strong leadership skills focused on quality and customer satisfaction
  • Excellent communication and project management abilities
  • Capacity for independent work and initiative

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of ADAS features from concept to robust design and testing
  • Collaborate with product teams to define and deliver ADAS user experiences
  • Ensure requirements alignment across hardware, software, and testing teams
  • Develop vehicle use cases and specifications for production features
  • Establish testing methodologies to meet end-user objectives
  • Work with safety engineers to define and analyze feature safety requirements
  • Ensure compliance with global automotive regulations and standards

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility support
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance for ongoing education
  • Active employee resource groups for community and support
  • Paid time off for community service and holidays, including year-end break
  • Options for additional vacation time purchase
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are seeking professionals who can contribute to our efforts with experience and passion in the development of features, functions, sensors, ECUs, models, and software.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Lead the development of feature engineering deliverables including Concept, Logical and Technology requirements, Boundary diagrams, design analysis, Failure Mode Avoidance, robustness fields and test procedures.
  • Collaborate with design and product teams to realize the desired ADAS Feature experience
  • Work with Hardware, Software and Test teams to ensure Feature requirements are cascaded, aligned, and accepted.
  • Develop and refine vehicle level uses cases, interfaces and feature level specification to ensure production feature delivery.
  • Establish Feature objectives and ensure system operation to meet the end-user/customer objectives through a structured system level test methodology
  • Work with Functional Safety engineers to develop and refine feature functional safety requirements, item definition, hazard analysis/risk assessment and functional safety concept incompliance with ISO-26262/Ford Functional Safety process.
  • Ensure global regulatory compliance (e.g. ECE/UNECE R79, R2144)
  • Ensure new features seamlessly integrate with existing features to provide a superb customer experience
  • Work with the validation teams to establish test procedures, including CAE simulation, vehicle testing
  • Assure that the integration of affected systems meet the requirements for desired feature-level performance
  • Support development of Design validation methods to ensure feature robustness across all vehicle environmental conditions and customer usage profiles
  • Use data analysis techniques and methods from data generated by track, lab and model-based validation method to ensure feature achieves a desired set of requirements.
  • Plan and help execute real-world evaluation of ADAS features via vehicle/HIL/virtual testing and identify system problems/issues
  • Support and coordinate root-cause analysis with internal functions and external suppliers to ensure delivered system achieves feature requirements
  • Support Sign-off of feature level performance for first vehicle program implementation
  • Gather quality history to manage and drive feature quality and improvements (i.e. Data Analytics/VOCF/Launch Feedback/Warranty/External Metrics such as JD Powers).
  • Drive feature robustness through Failure Mode Avoidance (FMA) and advanced validation (HIL/SIL/Vehicle); lead complex root cause investigations (8D/5-Why) and present technical solutions to enterprise leadership.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems, Computer Engineering or related degree
  • 3+ years of experience developing in the ADAS domain using radars, cameras, LIDAR, ultrasonic sensors and/or other related vehicle systems (e.g. body, electrical, chassis, powertrain, etc.)
  • 2+ years in system engineering including experience with the System V, Functional decomposition, design analysis, Concept, Logical and technology level requirements development, System integration and FMA analysis
  • 2+ years leading cross functional communications such as "Feature Owner," leading ad-hoc, multi-disciplinary teams across hardware, software, functional safety, and testing to drive the ADAS feature from concept to production.
  • Strong leadership with a passion for quality and customer happiness
  • Excellent communication, teamwork, interpersonal and project management skills
  • Ability to work well independently and take initiative


Even better, you may have...
  • Master's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems, Computer Engineering or related degree
  • Experience with SysML/MagicDraw
  • Experience with model based design (e.g. Matlab, Simulink, etc.)
  • Experience with Functional Safety (ISO26262) and Failure Mode Avoidance
  • 5+ years of experience with system architecture, design, and documentation
  • 5+ years of experience with GPDS and program deliverables
  • 5+ years of experience with ADAS Perception, Sensing, or Driving Control systems
  • 5+ years of experience with system architecture, design, and documentation
  • 2+ years of work experience designing and developing traffic sign recognition, lane keeping systems, or other related driving features


You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've 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 builder...or 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 Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 7-8 and ranges from $84,480- $166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #LI-LB1

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