Connected Vehicle Systems Engineer - Cloud & Security

Ford Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Paid time off

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Holidays & time off

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks a senior Systems Engineer for connected vehicle programs spanning requirements, cloud interfaces, privacy, and telematics. You will define architecture, coordinate suppliers, validate implementations, and govern OTA and cloud services.

The role requires cross-functional leadership across software, cloud, hardware, cybersecurity, and legal teams, with a focus on regional compliance and fleet management.

Qualifications

• Experience defining and managing system requirements, feature requirements, and interface requirements.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity, privacy, consent management, and data governance principles.
• Experience validating system functionality and supplier compliance against established requirements.
• Strong technical communication and supplier management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define connected vehicle technical, security, privacy, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Own Ford cloud interface definitions and connectivity architecture requirements.
• Define Ford Well-Known Signals, event models, signal mappings, enumerations, units, and expected vehicle behavior.
• Maintain requirements through change-control and legal-review processes.
• Communicate Ford feature expectations and technical requirements to suppliers.
• Drive closure of feature gaps identified between Ford and supplier implementations.
• Review supplier sequence diagrams, implementation proposals, and architectural responses.
• Ensure supplier solutions remain aligned with Ford architecture and interfaces.
• Define and govern Ford cloud integration requirements.
• Own customer authorization, account-linking, and VIN association workflows.
• Define backend activation and deactivation requirements for connected services.
• Govern fleet-management, feature-package, and remote-command cloud services.
• Define customer authorization and onboarding experiences.
• Define connected services DISCLAIMERS and setup wizard behavior.
• Establish Ford UI/UX expectations for privacy, account management, and connected services.
• Define profile synchronization and user-management expectations.
• Define privacy controls, consent requirements, and data-sharing behaviors.
• Ensure connected features comply with cybersecurity, privacy, and ePrivacy requirements.
• Define regional compliance and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Establish governance for fleet-privacy and dual-consent frameworks.
• Define OTA/MMOTA deployment requirements and strategies.
• Own software-update content, rollout policies, and version governance.
• Define cloud deployment requirements for emissions, battery-health, and regulatory data reporting.
• Define End-of-Line (EOL) provisioning requirements and cloud registration processes.
• Govern SyncP key allocation and supplier-feed integration requirements.
• Define cloud-triggered carrier provisioning and SIM activation processes.
• Define operational behavior for remote climate control, remote start, lock/unlock, vehicle health alerts, vehicle location, EV charging, panic alarms, and stolen vehicle services.
• Establish expected command responses and status-reporting requirements.
• Define fleet telematics signals, events, and command capabilities.
• Verify supplier implementation compliance with Ford-defined architectures and requirements.
• Validate signal mappings, telemetry behavior, status reporting, and cloud integrations.
• Confirm regulatory, privacy, and customer experience requirements are satisfied.
• Define fleet enrollment and feature-package management requirements.
• Govern telematics payload definitions, data integrity requirements, and reporting expectations.
• Define fleet remote-command authorization and lifecycle management requirements.

Skills

Systems engineering

Connected vehicle

Requirements management

Supplier management

Cloud services

Cybersecurity

Privacy & data governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical communication

Vehicle-to-cloud architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or related technical field

Job description

Ford Motor Company seeks a senior Systems Engineer for connected vehicle programs spanning requirements, cloud interfaces, privacy, and telematics. You will define architecture, coordinate suppliers, validate implementations, and govern OTA and cloud services.

The role requires cross-functional leadership across software, cloud, hardware, cybersecurity, and legal teams, with a focus on regional compliance and fleet management.