Senior Embedded Controls Engineer

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.