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Brake Controls Hardware Design – Release Engineer
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Livonia • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead design & development of advanced electronic brake control systems, including hardware systems to deliver anti-lock braking, stability control, regenerative braking, electric brake boost, and support Driver Assistance features.
- Design and release brake control modules, and brackets -- fully own all deliverables associated with your systems.
- Guide supplier partners through the Ford Global Product Development System (GPDS) process.
- Perform Failure Mode Avoidance and Functional Safety analyses to examine potential failure modes and design suitable prevention strategies.
- Work with chassis controls foundation team to establish requirements for advanced brake control systems and emerging new technologies.
- Work with other functional areas within Ford (Electrical, Powertrain, and Vehicle Program teams) to ensure that all vehicle interfaces are defined and supported.
- Support vehicle testing, rig testing, and Hardware-In-the-Loop simulations to demonstrate system functionality.
- Manage system quality, cost and timing to ensure high quality program deliverables.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or similar discipline.
- 4 years of design or development experience in chassis or powertrain controls.
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or similar discipline (even better).
- Experience with FMEA and related Failure Mode Avoidance processes.
- Familiarity with vehicle network communication (CAN).
- Self-starter who can learn to use new tools and find solutions – ability to troubleshoot & fix vehicle problems.
- Outstanding leadership and communication skills.
- Experience in supplier management and cost negotiation.
- Motivation to bring new technologies from concept to production in a short time period.
- Familiarity with Computer added design systems - TeamCenter / 3DX.
- Experience with complex system analysis tools & methods.
- Experience with Problem Solving Methods.
- Experience with Software and Electrical interfaces.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
electronic brake control systemsanti-lock brakingstability controlregenerative brakingelectric brake boostFailure Mode AvoidanceFunctional Safetychassis controlsvehicle network communicationcomplex system analysis
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationtroubleshootingproblem solvingself-startersupplier managementcost negotiationmotivationability to learn new toolssolution finding
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor’s Degree in Mechanical EngineeringMaster's Degree in Electrical EngineeringMaster's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
