Ford Motor Company

Technical Systems Integration Engineer

Ford Motor Company$125K — $192K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Computer, Electrical, Electronic Engineering)
  • 5+ years of experience in electrical systems integration engineering
  • Proficient in designing vehicle level electrical schematics
  • Experienced with vehicle network protocols (CAN, LIN, Automotive Ethernet)
  • Expertise in using tools like Canalyzer and Vector CAN for diagnostics
  • Strong root cause analysis skills using diagnostic trouble codes
  • Proven ability to lead troubleshooting efforts during vehicle launch and design verification phases.

Responsibilities

  • Develop vehicle electrical schematics ensuring compatibility and compliance with standards
  • Support prototype builds including configuring modules and performing diagnostics
  • Analyze Design Verification Tests to ensure electrical systems meet requirements
  • Investigate and remediate design failures and retest changes for effectiveness
  • Assist during pre-production and production ramp-up builds, providing technical expertise
  • Collect vehicle CAN logs to aid in troubleshooting integration issues
  • Interface with design engineers to resolve electrical subsystems compatibility issues.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care and parental leave options
  • Employee vehicle discount programs and management leases
  • Tuition assistance opportunities
  • Active employee resource groups promoting inclusiveness
  • Paid time off for community service initiatives
  • Generous paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Year's.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Technical Systems Integration 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 aforementioned worksite. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance from the worksite. Develop vehicle electrical schematics that deliver compatible form and function providing logical connectivity, electrical power distribution and grounding for all electric components (electronic modules, sensors, actuators, motors, etc.), while meeting all regulatory and company specific requirements, and executing corporate standards for Failure Mode Avoidance. Support prototype build events, including but not limited to Electrical Breadboards and Prototype Vehicles, with the responsibility to flash and configure electronic modules, execute modules diagnostics self-test routines, perform functional tests, KOL tests, understand and solve Electronic Systems Integration issues that may happen due to hardware or software maturity, collect vehicle CAN communication logs to support troubleshoot work, interface with design engineers from other functional areas to root cause issues. Review the results of all Design Verification Tests necessary to validate the Electrical Systems requirements to attest the outcomes that meet or exceed the pass criteria. Investigate, remediate, and retest failures to ensure effectiveness of any design change. Support Assembly Plant launch builds and voice of customer fleet vehicles by providing "in loco" assistance during pre-production and production ramp-up builds, providing technical expertise to triage and root cause problems that may impact vehicle processing through automated End of Line tests, ensuring final product quality meets corporate standards. Domestic Travel Required up to 30%.

Qualifications

You'll have...

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering or a related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation. 5 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Designing vehicle level Electrical Schematics for various sub systems including device transmittal (DT) set-up and DT approvals. 2. Collaborating with engineering/functional owner to ensure compatibility between components for entire electrical sub systems. 3. Performing Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis on various electrical sub systems to identify any potential design failures and possible improvements. 4. Performing design verification of electrical systems via prototype and preproduction breadboard and vehicle testing. 5. Experience with Vehicle Network protocols including CAN, LIN and Automotive Ethernet. 6. Using Canalyzer, Vector CAN tools and Diagnostic Engineering Tools (DET), for issue debugging and trouble shooting. 7. Root cause analysis using diagnostic trouble codes and CAN bus data. 8. Leading the End of line issue trouble shooting for failures identified during design verification and vehicle launch at manufacturing plants and VOCF. 9. Utilizing the connected vehicle data and KOL logger tools for key-off-load (KOL) issue diagnostics during the vehicle launch period. 10. Interfacing with vehicle product development, design and release engineers and other cross-functional teams.

We are offering a salary of $125,362.00 - $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:

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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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