Staff Body Controls System Engineer & Integration

Ford; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave & family care support

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Ford is seeking an experienced Electrical Systems Integration Engineer for body controls, combining hardware and software expertise to ensure seamless operation across subsystems. You will own integration from component hardware specs to production validation, lead cross-functional teams, and coordinate with suppliers.

The role requires strong systems engineering and hands-on testing across CAN, LIN, and Ethernet networks.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 8+ years in automotive systems integration or comparable electromechanical systems.
• Experience authoring and releasing network databases for CAN, LIN, Ethernet; manage change control across ECUs and suppliers.
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals: requirements decomposition, traceability, interfaces, and V&V planning.
• Proficiency with oscilloscopes, DMMs, current probes, and other electrical lab equipment.
• First-principles debugging across electrical, software, and mechanical domains.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end integration of body controls components from hardware spec through bench bring-up and vehicle validation.
• Lead component bring-up and debug on benches, labcars, and vehicles; define processes and serve as technical authority on cross-domain issues.
• Lead vehicle manufacturing integration and end-of-line validation for body controls components.
• Drive supplier software for networked body controls components; review deliveries, triage defects, gate release readiness.
• Develop and maintain network databases and interface artifacts (DBC, LDF, ARXML); coordinate with software and systems engineering.

Skills

Systems integration

Cross-domain debugging

Requirements traceability

Interface definition

Leadership & mentorship

Technical influence

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

CAN

LIN

Ethernet

UDS

DBC/LDF/ARXML

Oscilloscopes

DMMs

Job description

We made history and now we work to transform the future for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

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... Body controls is the subsystem the customer physically touches every time they use the vehicle. As the industry shifts to software-defined vehicles, every one of those interactions has become a cross-functional problem spanning electrical hardware, software, and network communication.

We’re looking for an experienced electrical systems integration engineer with sufficient hardware depth to own body controls end to end. You'll own the intersection where hardware and software meet by translating physical component behavior into system requirements, defining the interfaces that drive it, and proving it works on real hardware. You’ll drive integration of the motors, sensors, and actuators within body controls subsystems such as closures, seating, lighting, switches, mirrors, and wipers. From concept through production, you are responsible for the seamless operation and performance of these systems.

What you'll do...

• Own end-to-end integration of body controls components from component hardware specification through bench bring-up, vehicle validation, and production launch
• Own component-level bring-up and debug on benches, bucks, labcars, and vehicles, defining the process, running it hands-on, and serving as final technical authority on cross-domain issues
• Lead vehicle manufacturing integration and end-of-line validation for body controls components
• Drive supplier software for networked body controls components: review deliveries against requirements, drive defect triage and resolution with suppliers, and gate release readiness
• Develop and maintain network databases and interface artifacts (DBC, LDF, ARXML), coordinating with software and systems engineering to satisfy all feature and functional requirements
• Own interface definition with electrical hardware and distribution teams, creating boundary and block diagrams for body controls subsystems
• Define and execute integration and validation test plans covering both network behavior and discrete component behavior
• Support vehicle behavior decomposition into feature, system, and device requirements in JAMA, and maintain traceability from requirement to validation result
• Mentor engineers across the organization on integration process, hardware reasoning, and requirements quality

You'll have...

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 8+ years in automotive systems integration or comparable electromechanical systems engineering
• Hands-on experience authoring and releasing network databases for CAN, LIN, Ethernet, and managing their change control across ECUs and suppliers
• Experience with diagnostics and UDS-based service and configuration routines
• Component-level hardware fluency, motor and inductive load behavior, transient and fault current, thermal derating, protection circuitry, analog vs. digital input conditioning
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals, from requirements decomposition and traceability to interface definition and V&V planning
• Proficiency with oscilloscopes, DMMs, current probes, power supplies, and other electrical lab equipment
• First-principles debugging across electrical, software, and mechanical domains
• Strong knowledge of vehicle electrical architecture, functional safety, and diagnostics processes
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams and explain engineering rationale to suppliers and leadership

Even better, you may have...

• Body controls domain experience through a production launch
• Experience with test automation or scripting (Python, CAPL) to build integration test capabilities
• Experience with diagnostics and UDS-based service and configuration routines
• Motor control, current sensing, position/Hall sensing, or anti-pinch algorithm experience
• Hardware or firmware design inside the component (microprocessor-based design, drivers, RTOS)
• DFMEA and HARA experience applying ISO 26262 to support homologation

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?

• 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 leadership level 6 and ranges from $150,200-$283,500. 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 available for this position.

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