Senior Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls
Ford Motor14 hours 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 for window, closure, lighting, and other actuator-based vehicle features.
- Lead hardware integration and validation on electrical test assets including 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.
- Create and execute firmware test plans covering functionality, stability, robustness, performance, 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, and technical documentation.
- Lead subsystem reviews across vehicle program development phases.
- Support hardware validation, lab-car testing, 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.
- At least 5 years of experience writing production-grade C for real-time embedded systems and applying coding standards such as MISRA C.
- Experience developing with RTOS platforms such as FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS, OSEK, or AUTOSAR, as well as bare-metal environments.
- Strong low-level debugging, hardware bring-up, timing and memory optimization, and low-power development experience.
- At least 5 years of experience with electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.
- At least 5 years of experience with CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet vehicle network protocols.
- Experience using electrical test equipment such as oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, signal generators, and power supplies.
- At least 5 years of experience using embedded networking interface tools in automotive, aerospace, or similar embedded environments.
- Working knowledge of vehicle architecture, battery technologies, motor calibration, functional safety, networks, diagnostics, and software and hardware tool development.
- Experience creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning test results.
- Preferred qualifications include driver development, RTOS integration, Bazel, SCons, CMake, PCB hardware analysis, Python test scripting, hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.
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 expense support.
- Vehicle discount and management lease programs for employees and family members.
- 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 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.
- Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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.