Hybrid Staff Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls

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About the role

  • Embedded Controls Engineer joining Ford's team to develop algorithms and lead integration of body control systems. Collaborating across teams to enhance vehicle functionalities and safety standards.

Responsibilities

  • Create control/estimation algorithms for various body control features like window control, closure system, and lighting.
  • Lead the design and integration of various body controls hardware components on electrical test assets such as benches, bucks, labcars, and vehicles.
  • Collaborate with software integration teams to bring up core functions and broadcast software level requirements to electrical hardware and systems teams.
  • Understand functional safety principles and participate in functional safety analyses of complex vehicle subsystems.
  • Develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions, including low power modes.
  • Spearhead body controls feature development, working cross-functionally with hardware, software, architecture, and many other teams to author feature boundary diagrams and validation strategies.
  • Author subsystem block diagrams and lead subsystem reviews through all vehicle program development phases
  • Early phases of firmware development will focus on hardware validation, labcar testing, and setting up the automation framework for unit, SIL and HIL testing.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Computer Science, with evidence of exceptional ability, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of experience on electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.
  • 7+ years of experience with Vehicle Network Protocols such as CAN, LIN & Automotive Ethernet
  • Strong EE fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, signal generators, power supplies, etc.)
  • 7+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools for automotive, aerospace, or similar field.
  • Experience and working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, battery technologies, software/hardware tool development, motor calibration technologies, OBD calibration, functional safety, network, and diagnostics process
  • Experience with creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning all test results.
  • **Even better, you may have...**
  • Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills
  • Experience in driver development and RTOS integration.
  • Experience with software build tools like Bazel, Scons, Cmake etc.
  • Experience with fundamental hardware components on PCB and their analysis tools.
  • Ability to write testing scripts for using scripting languages (Python)
  • Fluent in software fundamentals including software design and maintainability.
  • Hands-on experience in hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.
  • Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including circuit analysis and design

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

Job title

Staff Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$129,600 - $244,680 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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