Ford Motor Company

HIL System Engineer

Ford Motor Company$99K — $166K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
  • 5+ years in automotive software development or validations
  • 5+ years in software development life cycle, including CMMI and agile processes
  • 5+ years utilizing software testing or quality assurance methodologies
  • 3+ years validating dSPACE or NI HiL simulators
  • 3+ years with dSPACE control and automation desk software
  • 3+ years supporting ADAS/DAT feature testing

Responsibilities

  • Act as single point of contact for test organization and feature owner
  • Manage test projects for assigned features, including scope and risk
  • Develop and expand testing scope based on requirements
  • Support tradeoff analysis for test requirements and environment capabilities
  • Analyze requirements, electrical schematics, and functional specifications
  • Design and execute test procedures following guidelines
  • Implement and validate test environment and automation solutions

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption reimbursement and fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discount programs
  • Tuition assistance available
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Paid holidays and time off for community service
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

The Hardware in the Loop (HiL) Engineer supports the product development and system integration processes by developing test procedures for automated execution, implementing tests using Hardware in the Loop equipment, documenting and reviewing execution reports, reporting incidents/bugs, and tracking software updates to fix issues.

This role requires close collaboration with feature owners, engineering, and suppliers to develop a strong understanding of the vehicle functions and implement appropriate test design strategies for early identification of defects and to provide evidence of defect elimination.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

Single point of contact for the test organization and the feature owner, engineering team, and supplier

Manage the test project for the assigned features including integration/definition, scope/coverage, time, communications, and risk

Develop/expand testing scope

Support the tradeoff analysis of test requirements vs test environment capabilities to define test scope and instrumentation strategies

Analyze requirements, vehicle components electrical schematics, functional specifications, and DFMEA documentation

Design, maintain and execute test procedures in alignment with test design guidelines and strategy

Document test environment, automation, and vehicle variant management requirements

Implement and validate test environment, automation, and vehicle variant management solutions

Develop test procedures to validate the test environment (intake tests)

Analyze test execution results to generate reports, document incidents, and drive them to resolution

Troubleshoot vehicle systems and test environment functionality to minimize false positive incident reports

Implement continuous improvement strategies for test design, management, and execution processes

Document bugs

Qualifications

You'll have...

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

5+ Years of experience in automotive software development or validations.

5+ Years of experience in software development life cycle - CMMI and agile process experience.

5+ Years of experience utilizing software testing or quality assurance methodologies

3+ Years of experience in validation support of dSPACE or NI HIL simulators

3+ Years of experience in dSPACE control and automation desk software.

3+ Years of experience in ADAS/DAT feature testing support

2+ Years of experience using Scaled Agile Framework SAFE implementing agile practices and setting up SW development workflows at an enterprise scale.

Even better, you may have...

Functional understanding of ASPICE SW development process and ISO26262 functional safety standard.

3+ Years of experience in distributed feature testing experience

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 and ranges from $99,600-$166,600.

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. #LI-Hybrid

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1903
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