Vehicle Controls Platform Architect
Ford Motor1 day ago
Base Salary
$147k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and configure the foundational platform for vehicle-control systems, including BSW and AUTOSAR components.
- Develop embedded automotive software in C or C++ and integrate system-level functionality using embedded platforms and low-level device programming.
- Configure and integrate diagnostics, watchdog, non-volatile memory, supplier software, SIPs, and LLDs into powertrain modules.
- Debug low-level processor resets and software issues and determine root causes of vehicle and powertrain functional problems.
- Optimize platform architecture by distributing runnables across multicore processors.
- Design or configure automotive powertrain bootloaders for use across different modules.
- Optimize low-level software stacks for functional safety, MPU protection, cybersecurity, and hardware security modules.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electronic Engineering, Electronic and Communications Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Seven years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the offered role or a related occupation.
- Seven years of experience developing embedded software using C or C++ in the automotive domain.
- Five years of experience using embedded software platforms and low-level device programming in the automotive domain.
- Three years of experience integrating BSW, SIP, and supplier LLDs into powertrain modules.
- Two years of experience designing and architecting low-level powertrain platform stacks, including memory management, bootloaders, cybersecurity, multicore optimization, and platform-reset triage.
- Two years of experience optimizing low-level stacks for functional safety, including MPU protection and multicore processor optimization.
- One year of experience designing or configuring automotive powertrain bootloaders.
- One year of experience optimizing low-level stacks for cybersecurity, including work with hardware security modules.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring residence within a reasonable commuting distance of Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan worksite.
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup child care.
- Employee and family vehicle discounts and management lease options.
- Tuition assistance and active employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for individual and team community service.
- Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
- Paid time off with the option to purchase additional vacation time.
About Ford Motor
Ford Motor Company designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, SUVs, and commercial vehicles for consumers and businesses, and provides financing through Ford Credit. A public company headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan and listed on the NYSE, it operates globally under the Ford and Lincoln brands, including electric and connected vehicles such as the F‑150 Lightning and Mustang Mach‑E. Founded in 1903, it also offers software-driven fleet, mobility, and aftersales services.