Propulsion Domain Hardware Sub-System Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a hands-on engineer to advance sensor subsystems for next-generation vehicles. The role combines dyno testing, vehicle evaluation, and detailed data analysis to improve sensor accuracy and emissions compliance.

You will lead calibration efforts, interface development hardware, and document system robustness for production readiness, working within an on-site/hybrid Ford team focused on electrified propulsion.

Qualifications

• BS Electrical engineering with strong mechanical understanding is required.
• Experience with data acquisition and MATLAB for post-processing is expected.
• Familiarity with sensor calibration and hardware interfacing is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop optimized sensor subsystem functionality for accuracy and emissions compliance.
• Lead robustness studies to meet functional requirements across vehicle fleet.
• Support calibration community and review future sensor implementations.
• Develop hardware interfaces and instrumentation for test vehicles.

Skills

Data acquisition tools

MATLAB

Education

BS Engineering in Electrical or related field

Tools

Oscilloscopes

CAN interfaces

Calibration tool interfaces

Microprocessors

Job description

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position...

• Development of optimized sensor subsystem functionality focused on improved sensor accuracy and consistency to provide functional and emissions compliance on next generation systems.
• Lead robustness studies into subsystem capability to meet necessary functional requirements for all of vehicle fleet over full useful life of the vehicles.
• Support Calibration technical community in reviewing future sensor implementation and ensuring proper function.
• Develop requirements for development hardware to interface with new sensors
• Implement overall instrumentation for special test vehicles and define special monitoring on vehicles with continuous flight recorders.
• Develop special testing HW based on microprocessor and development board designs including the associated software.
• Lead Feature Expert List(FEL) for sensor calibration values used in production vehicles.
• Gasoline LEV4 exhaust sensor subsystem development ---focusing on life aging and accuracy improvements on sensors and subsystems.
• Lead studies of improved exhaust system designs for optimal emissions and sensor availability
• Support LIN based coolant level sensors
• Lead oil level subsystem verification process
• Support SENT sensor subsystem verification
• Benchmark competitors in key system attributes related to exhaust sensors
• Support sensor level problem solving investigation on pre-production and production vehicles
• Lead system level robustness documentation on exhaust sensors with core design and release engineers. Detailed experience in FMEA, P-diagram and validation testing is preferred.

What You'll Do...

• Experience and capability to work with various data acquisition tools such as Oscilloscopes, CAN interfaces, Calibration tool interfaces and custom microprocessors.
• Experience and expertise in post processing data in Matlab or equivalent tools.
• BS Engineering degree required: Electrical engineering with strong mechanical understanding or Mechanical engineering background with strong electrical understanding is preferred.
• Experience with microprocessor software and software development

You'll have...

• Must be able to manage multiple concurrent assignments with proper prioritization.
• Position is a combination of hands-on dyno and vehicle testing combined with detailed analytical analysis of the gathered data.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills are necessary to be successful in this position.

Even better, you may have...

• Detailed experience in FMEA, P-diagram and validation testing is preferred.

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 childcare 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 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.

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.

Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role, taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.

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.