Ford Motor Company

Driving Control Feature Systems Engineer

Ford Motor Company$84K — $162K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering or related field.
  • 5+ years in ADAS domain with real-time vehicle systems (radars, cameras, LIDAR, etc.).
  • 2+ years in system engineering including requirement development and integration.
  • 2+ years leading multi-disciplinary teams across hardware, software, and testing fields.
  • Strong communication skills with team-leading experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead development of feature engineering deliverables and requirements documentation.
  • Collaborate with design and product teams to shape the Driving Control experience.
  • Coordinate with Hardware, Software, and Test teams to ensure requirement alignment.
  • Develop vehicle use cases and feature specifications for production.
  • Establish and drive system objectives to meet customer needs through testing.
  • Work on functional safety requirements in compliance with ISO-26262 standards.
  • Integrate new and existing features for enhanced customer experience.
  • Utilize data analysis to validate feature performance against requirements.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave options.
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility reimbursements.
  • Employee vehicle discount program and management leases.
  • Tuition assistance for continuous education.
  • Active employee resource groups for community engagement.
  • Generous paid time off including holidays and community service opportunities.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Responsibilities

What you will be able to do

We bring engineering ideas to life. In ADAS, we make driving more exciting, enjoyable, and safe.

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. IYou will:

  • 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 Driving Control 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 new features seamlessly integrate with existing features to provide a superb customer experience
  • Work with the virtual validation teams to establish CAE procedures to reduce dependence on vehicle-level 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).


Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems, Computer Engineering or related degree
  • 5+ 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.
  • 2+ years with communication skills and ability to lead ad-hoc teams


Preferred Qualifications
  • 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


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 childcare 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 to 8 and ranges from $84,480-162,120.
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 not available for this position.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.

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