Ford Motor Company

Software Architect

Ford Motor Company$138K — $192K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 5 years of embedded software development experience in C/C++
  • 5 years designing and deploying AUTOSAR Classic application software components
  • 2 years' experience with CAN and SOME/IP protocols
  • 1 year of experience with functional safety standards, including ISO 26262.

Responsibilities

  • Define software architecture for ADAS features and develop high-level designs
  • Guide product teams in integrating hardware and software components
  • Work with architecture and validation teams on software components
  • Review and approve implementation of basic software and device drivers
  • Support software project manager in delivering work products on schedule
  • Perform code level integration tasks including source code debugging
  • Teach Classic AUTOSAR capabilities to others within Ford.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care, parental leave, and subsidized backup childcare
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Tuition assistance for further education
  • Active employee resource groups for community building
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • Generous paid holidays including between Christmas and New Year's
Full Job Description
Job Description

Responsibilities

What you'll be able to do:

Software Architect - 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. Define the software architecture for ADAS features and develop high-level designs. Develop requirements for the software architecture and cascade to the software and model developers. Guide the product teams to define, assemble and integrate components (examples: hardware, software, requirements for availability, scalability, and reliability). Work with Ford architecture and validation teams, tool vendors and AUTOSAR basic software partners to design, develop, and deploy application software components, Ford specific complex device drivers, basic software components, software requirements, supporting documentation, and integration guides for ADAS ECU. Work with tool vendors to validate Ford CDDs and BSW components across multiple vendor AUTOSAR stacks. Review and approve the implementation of the basic software and complex device drivers. Support the implementation of the feature functionality. Support the work of the software project manager to define and deliver work products per the planned timelines. Support overall software and model integration and peer reviews of models and software. Perform code level integration related tasks such as replicating build environments, source code debugging and continuously improving and streamlining deployments. Support resolution of architecture related issues. Support the SW verification and validation teams to establish test strategies to achieve suitable coverage along the right side of the System V. Teach others within Ford about Classic AUTOSAR and its capabilities.

Qualifications

You'll have...

Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical 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. Developing embedded software in C/C++. 2. Designing, developing, deploying and validating AUTOSAR Classic application software components. 3. Matlab Simulink/Stateflow. 2 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. CAN and SOME/IP Protocols. 2. CAN (Classical and CAN FD) protocol, including frame structure, arbitration, and error handling. 3. DBC files for signal-level communication and interfacing across ECUs. 4. SOME/IP and SOME/IP-SD (Service Discovery) as defined by AUTOSAR. 5. Designing specification of service-oriented communication interfaces for ADAS functions using SOME/IP and managing ARXML interface definitions for SOME/IP services and events. 1 year of experience with the following skill is required: 1. Functional safety standards including ISO 26262, along with AUTOSAR architecture, covering application-level development for safety-critical functionalities.

We are offering a salary of $138,486.00 - $192,900.00/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/GSR-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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Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
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$127.1 billion
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