Staff Systems Engineer - Platform
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We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?
Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.
In this position...
The Systems Engineering & Integration teams at Ford Motor Company Advanced EV are responsible for the design, integration, and testing of all core vehicle features & functions including charging, thermal management, motion controls, fault handling, mode management, and more. This role is focused on systems engineering & systems integration for functions related to Power & Mode Management, Health & Fault Management, and Vehicle Access. This includes development of feature architectures & requirements, functional architectures & requirements, and all associated supporting deliverables (test plans, analysis, triage, and more). We specialize in parallelized development of prototype functionality and production designs, enabling Advanced EV to rapidly develop feature intent functionality without incurring significant technical debt.
This role also includes collaborating with our Functional Safety team to ensure the product meets the safety caliber set forth within the company by leveraging existing standards but also creating novel safety approaches to achieve high quality. Our team is responsible for the entire safety lifecycle during the core development and application of the system into a serial-production vehicle.
Our team leverages a variety of backgrounds, ranging from robotics, systems engineering, high performance software development, embedded and industrial software engineering, hardware engineering, vehicle engineering, battery management, & more.
What you'll do...
Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering, or a related field
7+ years of relevant industry experience at a minimum
Experience working in production applications of health management & diagnostics
Experience writing functional requirements
Experience writing safety requirements to meet ISO 26262 or similar standards
Strong record working in the field of system safety as it relates to software design and development
Strong engineering communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to a diverse team
Experience with safety related operating systems (RTOS) and runtime software environments, as well as Linux
Proven experience in developing embedded software on a resource-constrained compute platform.
Ability to design software components and systems and clearly communicate your designs through documents, diagrams, and presentations.
Strong ability to quickly understand complex systems and perform systematic software analysis
Practical experience with systems engineering methods applied to complex software systems, including systematic system or software analysis (. FMEA, FTA, DFA, attack tree analysis)
Knowledge of automotive functional safety standards (ISO-26262 or similar)
Experience in safety-critical software development processes
Strong systems engineering fundamentals
You'll have...
Experience with qualified tool chains, requirements traceability, documentation management, configuration management and change management systems is a major plus
Experience with code generation or compilers
Experience creating software tools to analyze logged data and root-cause events
Familiarity with requirements management tools (ex: Jama)
Experience with Python, C++, or other programming skills
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.
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
- Location:
- Dearborn