Prognostics Engineer

Ford Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical, dental, vision and药

Flexible family care days

Vehicle discount program for employees

Tuition assistance

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks a Prognostics System Engineer to lead system-level implementation and validation of prognostic health management features on vehicle programs. You will act as the Feature Systems Engineer of record for prognostics, ensuring robust validation end-to-end and deployment across target programs and model years.

The role emphasizes design verification, requirements traceability, and cross-functional collaboration with vehicle networks, cloud services, and program teams, to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, or Mechanical Engineering required.
• 5+ years in vehicle systems engineering or related feature development roles.
• 5+ years authoring and documenting system requirements with Gherkin (BDD).
• 5+ years decomposing features into requirements, interfaces, and test criteria.
• 5+ years applying automotive development processes (Feature Dev Process, V-model).
• 5+ years distinguishing system/integration issues from algorithm issues.
• 5+ years with CAN, LIN, Ethernet vehicle networks.
• 5+ years with ALM/traceability tools (Jama Jira Team Center).
• 5+ years experience with OBD and related regulations.
• Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or C++ for data processing.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Feature Systems Engineer of record for each prognostic feature.
• Introduce prognostic features onto the Bill of Features for programs.
• Coordinate with teams on scope and timing of prognostic features.
• Apply the Feature Development Process and gates with proper documentation.
• Author system-level feature requirements using Gherkin syntax.
• Define interfaces between vehicle systems, gateway modules, and cloud services.
• Plan and execute Design Verification Plans to validate end-to-end performance.
• Sign off on feature performance and lead cross-functional triage.
• Maintain requirements traceability using ALM tools (Jama Jira Team Center).
• Communicate status and validation results to leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

System requirements

Gherkin syntax

BDD

ALM tools (Jama Jira Team Center)

Vehicle networking CAN LIN Ethernet

Design Verification Plans (DVPs)

System integration

Python MATLAB C++

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Computer, or Mechanical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Jama

Jira

Team Center

SysML

MagicDraw

Vanguard/VSCS

Job description

In this position... The Prognostics System Engineer is responsible for the system-level implementation and validation of prognostic health management features on vehicle programs. Acting as the Feature Systems Engineer of record for each prognostic, this role introduces those features onto the Bill of Features for impacted programs, and ensures that prognostic algorithms and health indicators are robustly validated end-to-end and deployed against their target programs and model years in accordance with the Feature Development Process. These prognostic features leverage connected vehicle data to predict component degradation, estimate remaining useful life (RUL), and enable proactive maintenance — ensuring reliability, performance, and customer satisfaction in the era of electrification and automation.

In this position... The Prognostics System Engineer is responsible for the system-level implementation and validation of prognostic health management features on vehicle programs. Acting as the Feature Systems Engineer of record for each prognostic, this role introduces those features onto the Bill of Features for impacted programs, and ensures that prognostic algorithms and health indicators are robustly validated end-to-end and deployed against their target programs and model years in accordance with the Feature Development Process. These prognostic features leverage connected vehicle data to predict component degradation, estimate remaining useful life (RUL), and enable proactive maintenance — ensuring reliability, performance, and customer satisfaction in the era of electrification and automation.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the Feature Systems Engineer of record for each prognostic feature, introducing it onto the Bill of Features for impacted programs and coordinating with program teams on scope and timing.
• Apply the Feature Development Process rigorously, ensuring each prognostic feature moves through required gates, documentation, and sign-offs specific to its assigned program(s) and model year(s).
• Author and document system-level feature requirements using Gherkin syntax (Given-When-Then) to enable clear, testable behavior definitions shared across cloud, vehicle, and program teams.
• Define and allocate feature-level interfaces between vehicle systems, central gateway modules, and cloud prognostic services, confirming implement ability within program constraints (data availability, network bandwidth, compute placement).
• Plan and execute Design Verification Plans (DVPs) to validate prognostic feature performance end-to-end — from vehicle sensor/data collection through network transport to cloud processing and customer-facing output.
• Sign off on feature-level performance, conduct real-world evaluations, and lead cross-functional triage to isolate and resolve system/integration issues versus algorithm-level issues, routing the latter to the algorithm development team.
• Maintain requirements traceability using ALM tools (e.g., Jama, Jira, Team Center) from customer-experience-level goals down to vehicle system requirements, interface definitions, and DVP results.
• Coordinate with vehicle network/module engineers to ensure prognostic features integrate cleanly onto central gateway modules and existing CAN/LIN/Ethernet architectures without timing or priority conflicts.
• Analyze connected vehicle and warranty data to validate that deployed prognostic features are performing as intended and to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Communicate feature status, program impacts, and validation results to program leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

You’ll have

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical, Computer, or Mechanical Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in vehicle systems engineering, automotive diagnostics/prognostics, or related feature development roles.
• 5+ years of experience authoring and documenting system requirements using Gherkin syntax to support behavior-driven development (BDD) and cross-team clarity.
• 5+ years of experience decomposing complex features into requirements, interfaces, and test criteria across multiple programs/model years.
• 5+ years experience applying structured development processes (e.g., Feature Development Process, V-model) within an automotive or similarly regulated environment.
• 5+ years of experience utilizing the ability to distinguish systems/integration issues from algorithm-level issues.
• 5+ years of experience with vehicle networking and communication protocols (CAN, LIN, Ethernet) and how data flows from vehicle to cloud.
• 5+ years of proficiency with ALM/requirements traceability tools (e.g., Jama, Jira, Team Center).
• 5+ years experience with OBD systems and related regulations.

Even better, you may have

• Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field.
• Working knowledge of prognostic/PHM concepts (remaining useful life, degradation trends, health indicators) sufficient to collaborate effectively with algorithm development teams
• Familiarity with MBSE concepts and tools (SysML, MagicDraw) to understand how prognostic function allocation across sensor/gateway/cloud is architected upstream.
• Experience with quality/reliability documents (DFMEA, boundary diagrams, P-Diagrams) as applied to feature-level validation.
• Experience with electrical module design, in-vehicle networking (CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Ethernet), and power distribution.
• Familiarity with Ford-specific diagnostic tools and platforms (e.g., Vanguard/VSCS).
• Experience with connected vehicle architectures, telematics, and cloud-based data pipelines from a systems integration perspective.
• Familiarity with SQL and cloud platforms (e.g., GCP) sufficient to interpret telemetry and validation data.
• Electrical Design & Release and electrical testing experience.
• Proficiency in programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python, MATLAB, C++) for data processing and diagnostic tool development.

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 is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

Visa sponsorship is not 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.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.