Ford Motor Company

Interaction Engineer

Ford Motor Company • $138K — $227K *
Allen Park, MI 48101In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or related field required.
  • 5 years of experience in automotive HMI application software development required.
  • 5 years of experience with HMI frameworks such as QT or Android Automotive Platform required.
  • 2 years of experience managing UX to engineering lifecycle and project coordination required.
  • Experience with translating regulatory requirements into software specifications necessary.
  • Analytical skills to decompose UX designs and facilitate implementation feasibility required.
  • 1 year of experience in creating executive level program reports using Jira and Confluence needed.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage user experience principles to communicate effectively across technical and business teams.
  • Break down UX designs into Jira epic-task hierarchies and manage task prioritization.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment on meaningful functional milestones.
  • Track project status and communicate risks through alignment meetings and reports.
  • Ensure HMI development aligns with broader strategic program milestones.
  • Facilitate project coordination and delivery by tracking tasks in Jira.
  • Engage in domestic travel up to 10% as required.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care options and parental leave programs.
  • Employee vehicle discount program and management leases.
  • Tuition assistance for continued education.
  • Active employee resource groups promoting diversity and inclusion.
  • Paid time off for community service activities.
  • Generous paid holiday schedule including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day.
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Responsibilities

What you'll be able to do:

Interaction Engineer - positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Allen Park, Michigan). Note, this is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work both from home and from the aforementioned worksite. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance from the worksite. Leveraging a deep understanding of user experience principles and user needs to communicate cross-functionally, translating between UX design, business, technical, and project management domains and teams to ensure alignment of expectations and tasks. Breaking down UX designs into Jira epic-task hierarchies, and prioritizing, allocating, and tracking those tasks to completion. Identifying meaningful functional milestones and driving cross-functional alignment to those milestones. Tracking and communicating project status and risks through cross-team alignment meetings, execution level status reports, and dashboards built in Jira and Confluence. Ensuring that HMI development is aligned to the broader strategic program milestones. Domestic Travel Required up to 10%.

Qualifications

You'll have...

Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or a related field and 5 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. 5 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Develop and deploy software for automotive HMI applications running on Linux OS, QNX, or Android Automotive OS, using HMI frameworks including QT, Android Automotive Platform, or similar UI application framework. 2 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Program and manage automotive HMI software projects by coordinating UX design and engineering deliverables, ensuring timely execution and strategic alignment. 2. Design and manage UX to engineering lifecycle through the following phases: design freeze, artifact hand-offs, and implementation reviews. 3. Translate regulatory requirements for an automotive HMI into software requirements and functional definition. 4. Analyze and decompose HMI UX designs as inputs into software design and implementation feasibility. 5. Build, assign, and track task dependency hierarchies for HMI software projects using Jira. 1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Create executive level program reports using Jira and Confluence.

We are offering a salary of $138,486.00 - $227,764.32/yr.

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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

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Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
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