Senior Systems Engineer, Vehicle Access & Passive Safety
Ford Motor2 days ago
Base Salary
$115k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead vehicle access feature and function development, including requirements definition, stakeholder reviews, and enablement of software development teams.
- Define, test, and validate combined hardware and system requirements for vehicle access platform features.
- Lead integration, debugging, and engineering tests for prototype systems, lab cars, and vehicles.
- Conduct architecture investigations and trade-off studies optimizing experience, cost, and performance.
- Author and manage CAN and Ethernet interface definitions, signal chains, and system documentation.
- Lead software bring-up and validation activities and support vehicle system functionality throughout the product life cycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Strong understanding of systems engineering fundamentals, automotive concepts, systems development, electrical and functional architecture, and system integration.
- Experience with model-based systems engineering tools and complex cross-functional feature implementation.
- Experience creating and executing component- and system-level test procedures.
- Experience using Git in a collaborative development workflow.
- More than five years of experience in systems engineering or a similar role is preferred.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree, expertise with MBSE tools, embedded C, Python, MATLAB, Simulink, SPICE, IQ-FMEA, cryptography, cybersecurity, certificate/key exchanges, NFC, BLE, and UWB.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, subsidized backup childcare, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and fertility treatment benefits.
- Employee and family vehicle discount programs and management leases.
- Tuition assistance, employee resource groups, paid community-service time off, paid holidays, and paid vacation with 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.