Senior Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto • California • United States
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About the role
- Create control/estimation algorithms for various body control features like window control, closure system, and lighting.
- Lead the design and integration of various body controls hardware components on electrical test assets such as benches, bucks, labcars, and vehicles.
- Collaborate with software integration teams to bring up core functions and broadcast software level requirements to electrical hardware and systems teams.
- Understand functional safety principles and participate in functional safety analyses of complex vehicle subsystems.
- Develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions, including low power modes.
- Spearhead body controls feature development, working cross-functionally with hardware, software, architecture, and many other teams to author feature boundary diagrams and validation strategies.
- Author subsystem block diagrams and lead subsystem reviews through all vehicle program development phases
- Early phases of firmware development will focus on hardware validation, labcar testing, and setting up the automation framework for unit, SIL and HIL testing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Computer Science, with evidence of exceptional ability, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience on electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.
- 5+ years of experience with Vehicle Network Protocols such as CAN, LIN & Automotive Ethernet
- Strong EE fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, signal generators, power supplies, etc.)
- 5+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools for automotive, aerospace, or similar field.
- Experience and working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, battery technologies, software/hardware tool development, motor calibration technologies, OBD calibration, functional safety, network, and diagnostics process
- Experience with creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning all test results.
- **Even better, you may have...**
- Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills
- Experience in driver development and RTOS integration.
- Experience with software build tools like Bazel, Scons, Cmake etc.
- Experience with fundamental hardware components on PCB and their analysis tools.
- Ability to write testing scripts for using scripting languages (Python)
- Fluent in software fundamentals including software design and maintainability.
- Hands-on experience in hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.
- Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including 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, subsidized back-up child care 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
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Hard skills
control algorithmsestimation algorithmsfunctional safetyfirmware validationvehicle network protocolsembedded networkingdriver developmentRTOS integrationcircuit analysiscode optimization
Soft skills
collaborative mindsetstrong communication skills
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineeringBachelor's degree in mechanical engineeringBachelor's degree in computer science