Ford Motor Company

Propulsion Domain Hardware Sub-System Engineer

Ford Motor Company$99K — $166K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Engineering required, ideally Electrical or Mechanical with a focus on the other discipline.
  • Experience with data acquisition tools like Oscilloscopes and CAN interfaces.
  • Proficiency in post-processing data using Matlab or equivalent software.
  • Background in microprocessor software and software development is necessary.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects with proper prioritization.

Responsibilities

  • Develop optimized sensor subsystem functionality for enhanced accuracy and emissions compliance.
  • Lead robustness studies to ensure sensor capabilities meet functional requirements across the vehicle fleet.
  • Support calibration reviews for future sensor implementations.
  • Implement instrumentation for special test vehicles, including continuous flight recorders.
  • Lead the documentation process for the system-level robustness of exhaust sensors.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave.
  • Tuition assistance for continuing education.
  • Employee discount programs for vehicle purchases and leases.
  • Generous paid time off policy including holidays and community service.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
  • Development of optimized sensor subsystem functionality focused on improved sensor accuracy and consistency to provide functional and emissions compliance on next generation systems.
  • Lead robustness studies into subsystem capability to meet necessary functional requirements for all of vehicle fleet over full useful life of the vehicles.
  • Support Calibration technical community in reviewing future sensor implementation and ensuring proper function.
  • Develop requirements for development hardware to interface with new sensors
  • Implement overall instrumentation for special test vehicles and define special monitoring on vehicles with continuous flight recorders.
  • Develop special testing HW based on microprocessor and development board designs including the associated software.
  • Lead Feature Expert List(FEL) for sensor calibration values used in production vehicles.
  • Gasoline LEV4 exhaust sensor subsystem development ---focusing on life aging and accuracy improvements on sensors and subsystems.
  • Lead studies of improved exhaust system designs for optimal emissions and sensor availability
  • Support LIN based coolant level sensors
  • Lead oil level subsystem verification process
  • Support SENT sensor subsystem verification
  • Benchmark competitors in key system attributes related to exhaust sensors
  • Support sensor level problem solving investigation on pre-production and production vehicles
  • Lead system level robustness documentation on exhaust sensors with core design and release engineers. Detailed experience in FMEA, P-diagram and validation testing is preferred.


Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Experience and capability to work with various data acquisition tools such as Oscilloscopes, CAN interfaces, Calibration tool interfaces and custom microprocessors.
  • Experience and expertise in post processing data in Matlab or equivalent tools.
  • BS Engineering degree required: Electrical engineering with strong mechanical understanding or Mechanical engineering background with strong electrical understanding is preferred.
  • Experience with microprocessor software and software development


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Must be able to manage multiple concurrent assignments with proper prioritization.
  • Position is a combination of hands-on dyno and vehicle testing combined with detailed analytical analysis of the gathered data.
  • Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills are necessary to be successful in this position.


Even better, you may have...
  • Detailed experience in FMEA, P-diagram and validation testing is preferred.


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 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.

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.
Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role, taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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