Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls
Ford Motor1 day ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Specify, design, and implement body-controls firmware architecture and own the software codebase from prototype bring-up through high-volume production.
- Create control and estimation algorithms for window control, closure systems, lighting, and other body-control features.
- Lead the design and integration of body-control hardware components on benches, bucks, labcars, and vehicles.
- Collaborate with software integration, electrical hardware, systems, architecture, and other teams to bring up functions and define feature boundaries and validation strategies.
- Participate in functional safety analyses and author subsystem block diagrams and reviews across vehicle program phases.
- Develop test plans and perform component-level testing of firmware functionality, stability, performance, and low-power modes.
- Set up automation frameworks for unit, SIL, and HIL testing and support hardware validation, labcar testing, system debugging, and code optimization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, or equivalent experience with evidence of exceptional ability.
- At least 3 years of experience writing production-grade C for real-time embedded systems and understanding coding standards such as MISRA C.
- Hands-on experience with RTOS environments and bare-metal embedded software, including low-level debugging, hardware bring-up, and optimization for timing, memory, and low-power constraints.
- At least 3 years of experience with electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.
- At least 3 years of experience with vehicle network protocols including CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet, plus embedded networking interface tools.
- Experience with vehicle architecture, battery technologies, software and hardware tool development, motor calibration, OBD calibration, functional safety, networking, and diagnostics processes.
- Experience creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning test results.
- Preferred qualifications include driver development, RTOS integration, Bazel, SCons, CMake, PCB component analysis tools, Python testing scripts, hardware bring-up, system debugging, code optimization, and electrical circuit analysis and design.
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 treatment benefits.
- Vehicle discount programs, management leases, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, community-service paid time off, paid holidays, and vacation time with an option to purchase additional vacation.
- Hybrid work arrangement; candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub may be required onsite 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.