Hybrid Product Leader – Camera Experience Features

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Product Leader – Camera Experience Features
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cyber Security
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• Lead the Perception System Engineering group for Ford's EVDD team. Focused on innovation and delivering excellence in electric vehicle systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Perception System Engineering group
• Responsible for setting performance targets for next generation perception systems
• Support current generation systems through root cause analysis, incremental development, and launches
• Execute strategic visions throughout product lifecycle to improve time to market of new algorithms
• Guide and mentor team on quality improvements, forward design thinking, and trade off analysis
• Represent the ADAS perception team in global stakeholder reviews with studio, vehicle architecture, hardware, software, features, body, and more
• Support validation, verification of system documents such as interface and perception requirements utilizing novel methods to chase the long-tail of performance use-cases
• Define data collection and restimulation targets as well as analyze and sign off performance from physical and virtual testing
• Collaborate on developing new efficient methods of data labeling, statistical analysis, and data collection methods
• Own ADAS Perception System requirement documents for common implementations across the design domain
• Drive competitive benchmarking and emerging technology reviews to ensure Ford maintains a leadership position in ADAS Systems
• Support downstream customers such as Vehicle Operations and Vehicle Programs to support vehicle launches
• Collaborate with other internal Product Development teams and suppliers to define and execute relationships and information exchange strategies
• Drive collaborative solutions to concepts and defects across multiple domain teams including features, hardware, software, functional safety, cyber security and verification & validation
• Support verification & validation efforts with internal teams and suppliers to ensure requirement and design-intent compliance and quality
• Develop and provide regular status updates and health metrics to upstream and downstream stakeholders, including management and implementation teams
• Deliver System requirements, concepts, and architectural models to Implementation Teams
• Ensure robustness, reliability and safety through design reviews, system analyses and testing

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, or Computer Engineering or related degree; or foreign equivalency degree, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
• 5+ years of experience in ADAS, aerospace, or automotive system engineering
• 5+ years of experience with products in mass production
• 2+ years of experience in requirement authoring
• 5+ years of experience with systems based on mass produced sensors such as Ultrasonics, Radars, or Cameras
• 10+ years of experience with ADAS systems (even better)
• 5+ years of experience with GPDS and program deliverables (even better)
• 5+ years of experience with ADAS Perception, Sensing, or Control systems (even better)
• 5+ years of experience with system architecture, design, and documentation (even better)
• 5+ years of people leadership (even better)
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead ad-hoc teams (even better).

Benefits

• 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.