Ford Motor Company

Transmission and Driveline Controls Engineer

Ford Motor Company$85K — $166K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
  • 4+ years experience in software development in C/C++
  • 4+ years of experience in embedded controls development for automatic transmissions and/or driveline controls

Responsibilities

  • Manage changes and requirements for software components
  • Coordinate validation with HIL and calibration teams
  • Act as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for issue triage and resolution
  • Release updates following software development and quality processes
  • Design and implement controls software in C programming language
  • Develop and execute unit tests to verify software functionality
  • Utilize desktop vehicle simulation, HILs, and vehicles for testing software designs
  • Manage software feature change requirements using JIRA

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, and subsidized back-up child care
  • Family building benefits including adoption, surrogacy reimbursement, and fertility treatments
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and their families
  • Tuition assistance for further education
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service and a generous holiday schedule
  • Option to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

Transmission and Driveline Controls Engineer

In this position...

Own and manage multiple diagnostics related software components (features) pertaining to transmission and driveline diagnostics controls. The software components are written in c-code and used across multiple product lines and multiple hardware designs in terms of the transmissions and driveline components. This includes 10-speed and 8 speed automatic transmissions, manual transmissions, transfer cases, rear axle lockers, and front wheel-end lockers.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Manage changes and requirements;
  • Coordinate validation with HIL and calibration teams;
  • Act as SPOC for issue triage and resolution;
  • Bookshelf and release updates using software development and software quality processes, including all necessary deliverables (e.g. test reports, DVMs, cal guides, etc)
  • Design and implement controls software using c-programming language
  • Develop and execute desktop unit tests to fully verify the functionality of the software with respect to requirements.
  • Use desktop vehicle simulation environment, HILs and vehicles to test and validate software designs.
  • Use issue management tools (JIRA) to manage and document software feature change requirements, emphasizing customer (SP&I, calibration, program) needs and timing considerations
  • Participate in, and communicate with, cross-functional teams to optimize solutions weighing software complexity, tuneability, testability and Ford SW modeling guidelines


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
  • 4+ years experience in software development in C/C++
  • 4+ years of experience of embedded controls development in automatic transmission and/or driveline controls


Even better, you may have...
  • Desire to own, continuously improve, and expand the capability of SW features used across all vehicle programs, platforms and powertrains in Ford
  • Experience with change management tools such as IBM ClearCase, Git, SVN
  • Experience with calibration and data visualization tools such as ATI Vision, INCA/MDA, Vector CANalyzer
  • Experience in requirements-based test development in virtual and physical environments
  • Strong communication and outreach/networking skills.
  • Experience with SW quality processes, including requirements management, test plan development, and testing environments both virtual (MIL, SIL) and physical (HIL, vehicle)
  • Experience with data analysis and troubleshooting


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 child care 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 grades 6 and 7 and ranges from $85,400-$166,600.

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.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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1903
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