Vehicle Controls Platform Architect
Ford Motor1 day ago
Base Salary
$147k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and configure the foundational platform for vehicle control systems.
- Configure BSW and AUTOSAR components for diagnostics, watchdog functions, and non-volatile memory.
- Debug low-level processor resets and software issues and determine root causes.
- Optimize platform architecture by distributing runnables across processor cores.
- Integrate third-party software components, supplier-built software, BSW, SIPs, and LLDs into powertrain modules.
- Analyze and troubleshoot vehicle and powertrain functional issues, validate corrective actions, and develop preventative measures.
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 LLD supplier software into powertrain modules.
- Two years of experience designing and architecting low-level powertrain platform stacks, including memory management, bootloaders, cybersecurity, multicore optimization, and platform-level reset triage.
- Two years of experience optimizing low-level stacks for functional safety, including MPU protection and multicore processors with lockstep or functionally safe cores.
- One year of experience designing or configuring automotive powertrain bootloaders for use across different modules.
- One year of experience optimizing low-level stacks for cybersecurity, including work with a Hardware Security Module.
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 programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, plus management leases.
- Tuition assistance and 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.