Manager, Mechanical Engineering
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Cyber SecurityPythonVBA
Senior Systems Engineer, Lighting
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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About the role
- Lead the development of requirements for interior and exterior lighting features, functions, and interfaces
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders to establish performance requirements, review signal chains, capture interface definitions, simulate state machines, and lead supplier discussions
- Lead bring-up and validation activities for each vehicle build and support overall functionality and performance of vehicle systems throughout product life cycle
- Conceptualize, design, engineer, develop, and support the launch of next-generation vehicle platform architectures for electric vehicles
- Define, test, and validate combined hardware and system requirements for lighting features and functions
- Drive functional and electrical simulations
- Lead and manage integration of initial prototype systems, including debugging and engineering tests for prototype bucks, lab cars, and vehicles
- Conduct architecture investigations and execute trade studies to optimize design strategies for experience, cost, and performance
- Drive functional safety analyses and decomposition of complex vehicle subsystems, creating functional boundary diagrams and system interface specifications
- Execute systems integration efforts with interface definition, development, and testing in collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams
- Lead/support system diagnostics
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science or Electrical, Computer, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent
- Strong understanding of systems engineering fundamentals and ability to apply them to automotive concepts
- Experience and working knowledge of systems development, electrical architecture, functional architecture, functional safety, and system integration
- Experience with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools
- Experience defining and driving to implementation complex and cross-functional features and functions
- Proven debugging and diagnostic skills in electrical, mechanical, and functional/software domains
- Experience with Vehicle Network Protocols such as CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet
- Experience with creating and executing component and system level test procedures
- Experience with requirements capture in requirements management software platforms (e.g. JAMA, DOORS) focused on functional and performance requirements
- Excellent teamwork, problem-solving, communication, and project management skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team
- A systems approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement
- Even better: > 5 years experience in a systems engineering or similar role
- Even better: Master’s Degree Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent
- Even better: Expert in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools
- Experience with embedded C, Python, MATLAB, Simulink, SPICE, IQ-FMEA, and similar
- Experience with HARA, HAZOP, FMEA, FMEDA, and similar
- Experience with wireless connectivity, cybersecurity, certificate/key exchanges, and similar