Senior Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls
Ford Motor2 months ago
Base Salary
$139k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Specify, design, and implement body-controls firmware architecture from prototype bring-up through high-volume production.
- Develop control and estimation algorithms, device drivers, and embedded software for windows, closures, lighting, motors, actuators, and sensors.
- Lead the design, integration, and validation of body-controls hardware on benches, bucks, lab cars, and vehicles.
- Translate software requirements into electrical hardware and system requirements and collaborate with software integration teams.
- Apply functional safety principles and participate in safety analyses for vehicle subsystems.
- Develop and execute firmware test plans covering functionality, stability, robustness, performance, operating conditions, and low-power modes.
- Drive cross-functional body-controls feature development with hardware, software, architecture, systems, validation, and program teams.
- Author feature boundary diagrams, subsystem block diagrams, validation strategies, technical documentation, and subsystem reviews.
- Support hardware validation, lab-car testing, system debugging, and automation framework development for unit, SIL, and HIL testing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, or equivalent experience with evidence of exceptional ability.
- 5+ years of experience writing production-grade C for real-time embedded systems and applying coding standards such as MISRA C.
- Hands-on experience with RTOS environments including FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS, OSEK, or AUTOSAR, as well as bare-metal embedded software.
- Strong low-level debugging, hardware bring-up, timing and memory optimization, and low-power-mode experience.
- 5+ years of experience in electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.
- 5+ years of experience with vehicle network protocols such as CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet.
- 5+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools in automotive, aerospace, or similar embedded environments.
- Experience with electrical test equipment including oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, signal generators, and power supplies.
- Working knowledge of vehicle architecture, battery technologies, motor calibration, OBD calibration, functional safety, networks, and diagnostics processes.
- Experience creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning test results.
- Preferred qualifications include driver development, RTOS integration, software build tools, PCB hardware analysis, Python test scripting, software design and maintainability, hardware bring-up, system debugging, code optimization, and circuit analysis and design.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup child care.
- Family-building benefits including adoption and surrogacy reimbursement and fertility treatments.
- Vehicle discount programs for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance and active employee resource groups.
- 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 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.