ADAS Embedded Software Architect
Ford Motor15 hours ago
Dearborn, MI, USA or Sunrise, FL, USASenior
Base Salary
$100k - $167k/yr
Responsibilities
- Create high-level documentation and develop software requirements for an embedded platform.
- Design, develop, and integrate embedded C/C++ software platforms for next-generation ADAS systems.
- Architect over-the-air software updates for continuous improvement of vehicle features.
- Use modular component-based design, standard C libraries, embedded design patterns, and Classic AUTOSAR features.
- Debug complex cross-functional defects and drive issues to closure.
- Apply functional-safety principles and coding-quality practices, including static analysis, code coverage, and code reviews.
- Support real-world ADAS feature testing with systems-testing and vehicle-testing teams.
- Flash, validate, and debug software in bench and HIL setups and in prototype and pre-production vehicles.
- Provide technical leadership in a collaborative, cross-functional engineering environment.
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++ and/or 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 related engineering or computer-science field.
- Preferred: 8+ years of ADAS/autonomy software-architecture experience.
- Preferred: expertise in middleware design, boot-chain constructs, software design patterns, efficient data structures, and multithreaded system design.
- Preferred: understanding of CAN-FD, TCP/IP, UDP, SPI, SOME/IP, and SOA communication protocols; POSIX; ISO 26262; and security and safety in embedded systems.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription-drug coverage.
- Flexible family-care days, paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
- Family-building benefits including adoption and surrogacy reimbursement and fertility treatments.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance and employee resource groups.
- Paid time off, paid community-service time, paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, and an option to purchase additional vacation time.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite attendance 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.