Ford Motor Company

Product Development Engineer

Ford Motor Company • $84K — $164K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in a relevant engineering field.
  • 2 years of experience in vehicle communication data diagnostics using CAN tools.
  • 2 years of experience writing scripts and models using Quality Documents (8Ds).
  • 2 years of experience in automotive feature development and specification analysis.
  • 1 year of experience in designing validation methods for feature-level performance.
  • 1 year of experience ensuring system designs meet functional safety standards.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and refine design validation methods for product features.
  • Create software and diagnostic requirements alongside relevant specifications.
  • Write software models to support product development.
  • Plan and execute design verification plans for feature-level performance.
  • Conduct real-world evaluations to identify and resolve system issues.
  • Coordinate root-cause analysis with suppliers, ensuring effective integration of models with production hardware.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription coverage.
  • Flexible family care and parental leave options.
  • Employee vehicle discount program.
  • Tuition assistance for ongoing education.
  • Active employee resource groups for support and networking.
  • Paid time off for community service activities.
  • Generous holiday schedule including a winter break.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Product Development Engineer - positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan). Note, this is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work both from home and from the Dearborn office. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance from Dearborn, MI. Develop and refine design validation methods for ensuring proper feature-level performance. Create system, software, and diagnostic requirements, and relevant specifications. Write software models. Plan and execute design verification plans to ensure proper feature-level performance. Sign-off on feature-level performance and will plan and execute real-world evaluations to identify system problems and issues. Support and coordinate root-cause analysis with internal and external suppliers and will integrate and configure models and other software packages with a variety of production and other hardware to enable pre- production feature-level verification. Ensure system designs, functional safety, and other deliverables. Domestic Travel Required up to 10%.

Qualifications

You'll have...

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering or related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. 2 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Utilize CAN tools to collect and diagnose vehicle communication data between different electronic modules. 2. Write Scripts, models, and log instruments using Quality Documents 8Ds. 3. Develop automotive features and systems by leveraging knowledge in Automotive Feature Specification Analysis. 1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Design validation methods for ensuring proper feature-level performance. 2. Ensure system designs, functional safety, and other deliverables. 3. Sign-off on feature-level performance.

We are offering a salary of $84,053.00 - $164,372.16/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:

https://fordcareers.co/GSRnon-HTHD

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
* Ladders Estimates

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