DAT Feature and Software Engineer
Ford Motor3 days ago
Dearborn, MI, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$100k - $167k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain automation tools and scripts that validate consistency and traceability across software requirements, interfaces, signals, and calibrations.
- Create automated checks that replace manual reviews of engineering artifacts and identify inconsistencies early in the software development lifecycle.
- Validate AUTOSAR ARXML files, interface definitions, ports, data types, and signal mappings.
- Validate calibration definitions, parameter accessibility, tunability, and consistency across software deliverables.
- Automate requirements-management and test-case-management traceability checks across engineering systems.
- Validate software delivery artifacts and identify issues affecting integration, calibration, verification, and validation.
- Implement automated reporting, diagnostics, and error handling to improve visibility into validation results.
- Standardize validation processes, reduce duplicated manual effort, and improve automation across the Tools & Calibration ecosystem.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 4+ years of experience in software development, engineering automation, tools development, or a related role.
- Hands-on experience developing automation scripts and tools using Python or an equivalent programming language.
- Understanding of software development lifecycle processes, requirements management, and software integration.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across diverse engineering teams.
- Preferred experience with AUTOSAR Classic Platform, software component interfaces, ports, and signal mappings.
- Preferred familiarity with calibration concepts, A2L/ASAP2 files, calibration parameters, memory mapping, and tunability.
- Preferred experience with ETAS INCA or Vector CANape.
- Preferred experience validating software requirements, signals, interfaces, calibrations, and test cases.
- Preferred familiarity with JAMA, IBM DOORS, or equivalent requirements-management and test-management platforms.
- Preferred experience integrating engineering tools and automating data exchange across APIs, databases, and file-based systems.
- Preferred experience developing automated checks for ARXML, A2L, ELF, MAP, and HEX files.
- Preferred familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and continuous integration practices.
- Preferred experience with automotive software delivery, release engineering, and supplier integration workflows.
- Preferred knowledge of ASPICE, configuration management, automotive software development processes, data traceability, change impact analysis, and automated reporting.
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 expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and other family-building benefits.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance.
- Employee resource groups and paid time off for individual and team community service.
- Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, plus paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- Hybrid position 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.