ADAS Embedded Software Architect
Ford Motor8 hours ago
Dearborn, MI, USASenior
Base Salary
$100k - $167k/yr
Responsibilities
- Create high-level documentation and software requirements for embedded platforms.
- Architect and develop over-the-air software update capabilities for ADAS features.
- Design, develop, and integrate embedded C/C++ software using modular components, standard C libraries, embedded design patterns, and Classic AUTOSAR.
- Debug complex cross-functional defects and drive issues to closure.
- Apply functional safety principles and coding-quality practices, including static analysis, code coverage, and code reviews.
- Support real-world ADAS feature testing with systems-testing and vehicle-testing teams.
- Flash, validate, and debug software in bench, HIL, prototype-vehicle, and pre-production-vehicle environments.
- Provide technical leadership in a collaborative, cross-functional engineering team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or a combination of education and equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of software architecture experience using C++ and/or C.
- At least 5 years of experience designing and testing systems for high-performance, high-reliability computing applications.
- Familiarity with the Classic AUTOSAR stack.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred: master’s degree in a relevant engineering or computer science field.
- Preferred: 8+ years of ADAS or autonomy software architecture experience.
- Preferred: expertise in middleware design, boot-chain constructs, software design patterns, efficient data structures, and multithreaded system design.
- Preferred: understanding of CAN-FD, TCP/IP, UDP, SPI, SOME/IP, SOA, POSIX, ISO 26262, embedded security, and safety.
- Preferred: experience with Agile software development methodology.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent programs, subsidized backup childcare, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and fertility benefits.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, plus management leases.
- Tuition assistance and employee resource groups.
- Paid time off, paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, community-service time, and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite work four or more days per week.
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.