Vehicle Software Release Engineer - Hybrid Role

Ford; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical, dental, vision, and

Paid parental leave

Family building benefits including adp

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a systems engineer to drive the end-to-end delivery of vehicle software update solutions. You will own the system architecture, decompose requirements, and ensure successful integration across vehicle nodes and cloud components.

You will lead technical design reviews, coordinate with D&R engineers, suppliers, and operations, and validate updates through CAN/Ethernet testing. Hybrid work with onsite presence preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required for consider.
• Experience with system-level design in complex environments.
• Experience with software release processes for vehicles or networked embedded systems.
• Familiarity with devops pipelines and deployment of embedded software.
• Knowledge of automotive communications, CAN and Ethernet.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across the Vehicle Software Update delivery cycle.
• Own system-level design and define architecture; decompose requirements and define integration points.
• Draft, release and manage technical specifications in JAMA as a single source of truth.
• Explain complex requirements to partners including D&R engineers and suppliers.
• Conduct PoCs to support sprint deliveries and validate design assumptions.
• Sign off on test plans and ensure solution quality and completeness.
• Perform physical vehicle testing using CAN and Ethernet to verify updates.
• Monitor requirements and track deviations during development.
• Lead issue triage and support downstream teams and field deployment.
• Analyze complex failures to identify root causes and implement fixes.
• Participate in Technical Design Reviews and project meetings.

Skills

Technical leadership

System-level design

OTA release processes

Embedded software

CAN and Ethernet

Education

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

Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Git

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a systems engineer to drive the end-to-end delivery of vehicle software update solutions. You will own the system architecture, decompose requirements, and ensure successful integration across vehicle nodes and cloud components.

You will lead technical design reviews, coordinate with D&R engineers, suppliers, and operations, and validate updates through CAN/Ethernet testing. Hybrid work with onsite presence preferred.