ADAS HIL Verification Engineer — Virtual Test Architect

Ford; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Family care days & parental leave

Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

Paid community service time off

Paid holidays & vacation time

Option to purchase extra vacation

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks a skilled engineer to advance ADAS testing tools and test benches within a hybrid work model in Dearborn, MI. You will work as an agile contributor on a test team, developing automation, analysis methods, and supporting software testing for ADAS features.

You will collaborate with specialists across simulation, HIL, and vehicle teams to improve testing efficiency. The role requires a Bachelor’s or Master’s in engineering and strong Python, HiL experience, plus

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering field and at least 2+ years in automotive software testing in a HiL environment.
• Experience with Python for test automation and embedded software systems.
• Hands-on with ADAS testing, HiL tooling, and sensor/ECU validation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and prove out test tools, automation, analysis methods, and supporting software testing.
• Develop and bring up test solutions to perform ADAS features validation.
• Integrate software and hardware solutions to improve virtual vehicle test environments.
• Develop camera/radar/ultrasonic sensor stimulation and simulation tools.
• Analyze bench functionality and correlate to real-world vehicle behavior.
• Develop image analysis tooling for ADAS/video pipelines.
• Generate executable test cases from Gherkin via automation tooling.
• Create test case libraries to validate ADAS ECUs, sensors and software.
• Support test execution and debug to verify tool/test case quality.
• Collaborate across teams to standardize tools and testing procedures.

Skills

Python for test automation

Embedded software testing

Test tool development

Agile/V-Cycle

CAN/UDS/SOME/IP/UDP/XCP protocols

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or related field

Master's degree in Electrical, Computer Science, Mechanical, System Engineering or related field

Tools

HIL (IPG, Vector, NI, dSPACE)

GitHub/Jenkins / build tools

CarSim/CarMaker/monoDrive/Unreal

Job description

Ford Motor Company seeks a skilled engineer to advance ADAS testing tools and test benches within a hybrid work model in Dearborn, MI. You will work as an agile contributor on a test team, developing automation, analysis methods, and supporting software testing for ADAS features.

You will collaborate with specialists across simulation, HIL, and vehicle teams to improve testing efficiency. The role requires a Bachelor’s or Master’s in engineering and strong Python, HiL experience, plus