ADAS Calibration Engineer

Ford, Inc; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave & family care days

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) Calibration Engineer to calibrate Lane Centering, Assisted Lane Change, Adaptive Cruise Control, and BlueCruise across programs and variants. You will define performance requirements, create tests, and drive sign-off with validation teams.

You will collaborate with brakes, steering, and powertrain teams to ensure actuator performance meets vehicle-level targets and will conduct on-track and virtual evaluations to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field.
• 2+ years calibration experience for vehicle systems (electrical, chassis, powertrain).
• 1+ year experience with Vector CANape, CANalyzer, or dSPACE Control Desk.
• 1+ year experience with MATLAB/Simulink.
• 1+ year experience with CAN, CANFD, Autosar, Auto-Ethernet.
• MS degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Calibrate lateral/longitudinal ADAS performance across programs and vehicle variants.
• Lead program sign-off of vehicle-level ADAS performance.
• Develop metrics, calibration guidelines, test procedures, and validation plans for ADAS features.
• Collaborate with validation teams to reduce vehicle-level testing.
• Interface with brakes, steering, and powertrain to ensure actuator performance.
• Plan and execute on-track and real-world evaluations; resolve issues.
• Develop validation methods to ensure robustness across configurations.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project management

Education

B.S. in Engineering

M.S. in Engineering

Tools

Vector CANape

CANalyzer

dSPACE Control Desk

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

This position is for an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) Calibration Engineer and focuses on ensuring features perform so well that customers would never want to go back to life without them. We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced calibration engineer who will perform in-vehicle calibration of the Lane Centering, Assisted Lane Change, Adaptive Cruise Control, and BlueCruise features across all program variants and provide sign-off assessments for those features. You will also define, develop, and verify feature performance requirements, metrics, and targets, develop new verification and calibration test methods, and collaborate with feature, application, and research engineers to drive further improvements to your features.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

• Calibrate lateral/longitudinal performance of ADAS features across multiple programs and vehicle variants for features such as Lane Centering, Assisted Lane Change, Adaptive Cruise Control, and BlueCruise
• Lead program sign-off of vehicle level performance for ADAS features
• Lead the development of objective performance metrics, calibration guidelines, test procedures, and validation plans for ADAS features such as Lane Centering, Assisted Lane Change, Adaptive Cruise Control, and BlueCruise
• Work with virtual validation teams to establish CAE procedures to reduce dependence on vehicle-level testing
• Interface with functional partners in brakes, steering, and/or powertrain to ensure actuator performance is sufficient to meet vehicle-level requirements
• Plan and execute on-track and real-world evaluations of ADAS features via vehicle/HIL/virtual testing and identify and resolve feature performance issues
• Design validation methods to ensure feature robustness across vehicle configurations, environmental conditions and customer usage
• Develop pre/post processing tools using MATLAB and Vector CAN tools for data collection and analysis
• Implement various data analysis techniques on data generated by track, public road, lab, and model-based validation methods to ensure feature achieves a desired set of performance requirements
• Support and coordinate root-cause analysis with internal functions and external suppliers to ensure delivered system achieves performance requirements
• Benchmark competitors and monitor public domain requirements

Qualifications

You'll have...

• B.S. in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer Science) or related technical field
• 2+ years of experience in calibration of features and/or attributes for vehicle systems (electrical, chassis, powertrain, vehicle dynamics), preferably in the Driver Assistance domain
• 1+ year of experience using Vector CANape, CANalyzer, and/or dSPACE Control Desk or similar tools
• 1+ year of experience with MATLAB/Simulink
• 1+ year of experience using typical automotive interfaces: CAN, CANFD, Autosar, Auto-Ethernet, etc.

Even better, you may have...

• M.S. in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer Science) or related technical field
• Experience in developing objective metrics that are well-correlated to subjective evaluations
• Experience with high performance driving and vehicle performance evaluation
• Experience with feedback controls design, application, and theory
• Experience applying Systems Engineering
• Experience in authoring new requirements
• Troubleshooting experience with electromechanical systems
• Experience with failure mode analysis techniques
• Experience reviewing, categorizing, and analyzing field data to determine error states/failure modes
• Experience with virtual validation methods (HIL/MIL/SIL)
• Strong leadership skills, passion for quality, passion to improve customer satisfaction
• Good communications and project management skills
• Ability to work both independently and take initiative when necessary
• Strong teamwork & interpersonal skills

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 ranges from a salary grade 6-8 from $120,000 - $150,000.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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.

This position is hybrid (onsite four days per week).

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Job Info

• Job Identification 66852
• Job Category Research and Advance Engineering
• Degree Level Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Locations 20500 Oakwood Blvd, Dearborn, MI, 48124, US (Hybrid)