Ford Motor Company

Embedded Software Engineer - Body Control Modules

Ford Motor Company$79K — $178K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience in Embedded Software, preferably with Body Control Systems
  • 5+ years of programming experience in Embedded C, MATLAB Simulink, and Stateflow
  • Strong programming skills in C with the ability to write portable and platform-agnostic code
  • 3+ years developing Proof-of-Concept applications for automotive ECUs
  • 2+ years of experience in an agile environment

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with a team of Embedded Software Engineers
  • Design and develop embedded software for the Body Control System
  • Analyze requirements, design specifications, and program/debug code using C and Python
  • Ensure on-time delivery of high-quality complex device driver code
  • Refactor existing software components for new architecture requirements
  • Work with internal teams to create reusable software components and support documentation
  • Conduct code-level integration tasks and improve deployment processes
  • Align with project managers on CI/CD pipelines for product releases

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
  • Employee discounts on vehicles and management leases
  • Tuition assistance support
  • Active employee resource groups promoting inclusivity
  • Paid time off for community service and generous holiday schedule
  • Option to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Embedded Software Engineer - Body Control Modules

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Work in a team of highly motivated Embedded Software Engineers
  • Design and develop embedded software components for the Body Control System.
  • Analyze, feature-level requirement design, functional specification, program, debug, and modify using high-level languages (C, Python).
  • Contribute to product success through consistent on-time delivery of high-quality, functioning complex device driver code.
  • Scale, modify, and refactor existing software components to meet new architecture requirements.
  • Work with Ford architecture and validation teams, and partners to create reusable software components, support documentation, and integration guides.
  • Perform code-level integration-related tasks such as replicating build environments, source code debugging, and continuously improving and streamlining deployments.
  • Work with development and project managers to align on CI/CD pipelines for product variant releases
  • Evaluate technologies and methods for developing cloud scalable test infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for virtual and hardware ECUs


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related Field or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
  • 5+ years of Embedded Software Experience, Body Control System is preferred.
  • 5+ years of programming experience inEmbedded C, MATLAB Simulink, and Stateflow.
  • Candidates must have strong programming skills in C and be able to write highly portable and platform-agnostic code
  • 3+ year experience in developing Proof-of-Concept applications for automotive ECUs
  • 2+ years' experience working in an agile environment


Even better, you may have...
  • MS in Electrical Engineer, Computer Science, or related Field
  • Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, and dockers
  • Experience with Jenkins and GitHub actions
  • Experience in software development for automotive control units
  • Experience in AUTOSAR Methodology and workflows
  • Experience in Software Simulation using Hardware Models
  • Embedded software development experience in Linux platform
  • Good, embedded debugging skills
  • Self-reliant, approachable, with good communication skills
  • Good knowledge of tools used for embedded program development
  • Knowledge of safety-systems, ISO26262, ASIL A-D is a plus


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 grades 6 -8 and ranges from $79,800-178,320..

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.

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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. #LI-Hybrid
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