Staff Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls

Ford Motor; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive manufacturer is seeking an experienced engineering professional to create control algorithms and lead hardware integration for electric vehicle systems. The ideal candidate has a strong background in electrical engineering, vehicle protocols, and extensive experience in the automotive field. The position offers competitive benefits and the opportunity to contribute to innovative EV solutions.

Benefits

Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

Flexible family care days

Vehicle discount program

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience on electrical hardware applications and systems development.
• Experience with Vehicle Network Protocols such as CAN, LIN & Automotive Ethernet.
• Strong EE fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment.

Responsibilities

• Create control/estimation algorithms for body control features.
• Lead design and integration of body controls hardware components.
• Collaborate with software integration teams.

Skills

Electrical hardware applications

Vehicle Network Protocols

Embedded networking interface tools

Functional safety

Testing procedures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Computer Science

Tools

Oscilloscopes

DMMs

Signal generators

Job description

Overview

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

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.

Responsibilities

• Create control/estimation algorithms for various body control features like window control, closure system, and lighting.
• Lead the design and integration of various body controls hardware components on electrical test assets such as benches, bucks, labcars, and vehicles.
• Collaborate with software integration teams to bring up core functions and broadcast software level requirements to electrical hardware and systems teams.
• Understand functional safety principles and participate in functional safety analyses of complex vehicle subsystems.
• Develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions, including low power modes.
• Spearhead body controls feature development, working cross-functionally with hardware, software, architecture, and many other teams to author feature boundary diagrams and validation strategies.
• Author subsystem block diagrams and lead subsystem reviews through all vehicle program development phases.
• Early phases of firmware development will focus on hardware validation, labcar testing, and setting up the automation framework for unit, SIL and HIL testing.

Qualifications

• You’ll have—
  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Computer Science, with evidence of exceptional ability, or equivalent experience.
• • 7+ years of experience on electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.
• • 7+ years of experience with Vehicle Network Protocols such as CAN, LIN & Automotive Ethernet
• • Strong EE fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, signal generators, power supplies, etc.)
• • 7+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools for automotive, aerospace, or similar field.
• • Experience and working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, battery technologies, software/hardware tool development, motor calibration technologies, OBD calibration, functional safety, network, and diagnostics process
• • Experience with creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning all test results.

• Even better, you may have—
• • Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills
• • Experience in driver development and RTOS integration.
• • Experience with software build tools like Bazel, Scons, Cmake etc.
• • Experience with fundamental hardware components on PCB and their analysis tools.
• • Ability to write testing scripts for using scripting languages (Python)
• • Fluent in software fundamentals including software design and maintainability.
• • Hands-on experience in hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.
• • Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including circuit analysis and design

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

Benefits and additional information

• 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 leadership level 6.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6SP4

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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Responsibilities

What you'll do...
• Create control/estimation algorithms for various body control features like window control, closure system, and lighting.
• Lead the design and integration of various body controls hardware components on electrical test assets such as benches, bucks, labcars, and vehicles.
• Collaborate with software integration teams to bring up core functions and broadcast software level requirements to electrical hardware and systems teams.
• Understand functional safety principles and participate in functional safety analyses of complex vehicle subsystems.
• Develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions, including low power modes.
• Spearhead body controls feature development, working cross-functionally with hardware, software, architecture, and many other teams to author feature boundary diagrams and validation strategies.
• Author subsystem block diagrams and lead subsystem reviews through all vehicle program development phases
• Early phases of firmware development will focus on hardware validation, labcar testing, and setting up the automation framework for unit, SIL and HIL testing.