V&V Governance Engineer

Ford Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Flexible holiday schedule

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford Motor Company’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is seeking a V&V Governance Engineer to strengthen verification and validation governance, align processes, and deliver quality analytics. The role collaborates across V&V, quality, safety, software, and program teams to improve assessment readiness and evidence quality.

You’ll develop dashboards, metrics, and automation to drive actionable insights, while validating compliance to FAP03-149, ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience defining, deploying, or assessing V&V, quality, safety, or regulated engineering processes.
• Working knowledge of FAP03-149 or equivalent DV/PV governance, including verification planning, evidence expectations, reviews, milestones, regulatory requirements, and deviation management.
• Assessment-capable knowledge of ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE, and/or ISO 8800, with ability to evaluate evidence, document gaps, and drive corrective/preventive actions.
• Ability to build or govern dashboards, metrics, traceability checks, and audit automation using data-driven methods.
• Experience applying quality predictive analytics, including trend analysis, leading indicators, risk modeling, and preventive action planning.
• Strong communication, stakeholder alignment, and process adoption skills across cross-functional engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and improve V&V QOS processes, governance routines, templates, and assessment criteria aligned to relevant standards.
• Map Agile execution artifacts to formal DV/PV and Software Test Plan expectations, including requirement applicability and evidence retention.
• Own end-to-end traceability rules and automate checks for missing links, incomplete evidence, and readiness gaps.
• Lead tool confidence and evidence governance for systems used to create, manage, or report verification evidence.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs/KRIs, audit automation, and quality predictive analytics to identify leading indicators and readiness concerns.
• Drive corrective/preventive actions, process adoption, training, and stakeholder alignment across V&V, quality, safety, software, and program teams.

Skills

V&V governance

Quality processes

Dashboards & metrics

Data-driven methods

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or CS

Tools

Python scripting

Workflow automation

Test management systems

Defect tracking

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

The V&V Governance QOS Engineer is a technical role responsible for strengthening Verification & Validation governance, process alignment, assessment readiness, and quality analytics. The role aligns V&V execution to FAP03-149, applicable Ford FAP/QOS procedures, ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE, and, where applicable, ISO 8800.

What You’ll Do

• Define, maintain, and improve V&V QOS processes, governance routines, templates, and assessment criteria aligned to FAP03-149, Ford FAP/QOS procedures, ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE, and ISO 8800 where applicable.
• Map Agile execution artifacts to formal DV/PV and Software Test Plan expectations, including requirement applicability, SME reviews, milestone timing, evidence retention, regulatory controls, and deviation handling.
• Own end-to-end traceability rules and automate checks for missing links, incomplete evidence, stale data, and assessment readiness gaps.
• Lead tool confidence and evidence governance for systems used to create, manage, or report verification evidence.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs/KRIs, audit automation, and quality predictive analytics to identify leading indicators, defect escape risk, evidence risk, and milestone readiness concerns.
• Drive corrective/preventive actions, process adoption, training, and stakeholder alignment across V&V, quality, safety, software, and program teams.

You’ll have

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience defining, deploying, or assessing V&V, quality, safety, or regulated engineering processes.
• Working knowledge of FAP03-149 or equivalent DV/PV governance, including verification planning, evidence expectations, reviews, milestones, regulatory requirements, and deviation management.
• Assessment-capable knowledge of ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE, and/or ISO 8800, with ability to evaluate evidence, document gaps, and drive corrective/preventive actions.
• Ability to build or govern dashboards, metrics, traceability checks, and audit automation using data-driven methods.
• Experience applying quality predictive analytics, including trend analysis, leading indicators, risk modeling, and preventive action planning.
• Strong communication, stakeholder alignment, and process adoption skills across cross-functional engineering teams.

Even better, you may have

• Python scripting preferred.
• Experience with workflow automation, test management systems, defect tracking, evidence pipelines, or compliance reporting.
• Exposure to AI-enabled safety practices or quality analytics for complex automotive systems.

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!

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 range of salary grades 6-8 and ranges from $85,400-$150,000.

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.

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