ADAS Embedded Software Architect
Ford Motor2 days ago
Dearborn, MI, USASenior
Base Salary
$100k - $167k/yr
Responsibilities
- Create high-level documentation and software requirements for an embedded platform.
- Architect over-the-air software updates for continuous improvement of ADAS features in vehicles.
- Design, develop, and integrate embedded C software using modular components, standard C libraries, embedded design patterns, and Classic AUTOSAR features.
- Debug complex cross-functional defects and drive issues to closure.
- Apply functional safety principles, coding standards, static analysis, code coverage, and code reviews.
- Support ADAS feature testing with systems-testing and vehicle-testing partner teams.
- Flash, validate, and debug software in bench and HIL setups and in pre-production and prototype vehicles.
- Provide technical leadership within a collaborative, cross-functional embedded software 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.
- 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 or more years of ADAS or autonomy software architecture experience.
- Preferred: experience with modern middleware, 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, security, and safety in embedded systems.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
- Family-building benefits including adoption, surrogacy, and fertility treatment assistance.
- Vehicle discount programs for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance and employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for community service, paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite work four or more days per week.
Tech Stack
C
Categories
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.