
Vehicle Controls Engineering Technical Specialist
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States
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Salary
💰 $132,800 - $180,800 per year
About the role
- Design, develop, code, and test planned changes to software tools along-side with the Vehicle Controls Tools Technical Specialist.
- Follow company policies and local change control process to bring approved changes to resolution.
- Provide user support across the globe using phone, email, Instant Messaging, and 1/1 interactions. Includes in-house tools for powertrain controls planning, software build and release, calibration management, and calibration release tools.
- Provide user account creation, maintenance, and access controls in user-interfacing tools.
- Co-lead conformance and upgrades of existing Powertrain Controls Servers and Company required software to Enterprise Technologies standards.
- Participate in the development and delivery of training material to world-wide Ford community.
- Partner with Enterprise Technology as architect/product owner to leverage additional resources.
- Document changes in the appropriate user manuals and other media.
- Participate in User Forum meetings.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
- In-depth experience with the C-language, in support of an embedded control systems environment.
- Must have in-depth and working experience with C language data structures, struct, union, pointers, bit manipulation techniques, file read/write, hash tables, recursion, and recursive decent parsing.
- In-depth experience developing applications in a Unix environment, including make-files, gdb, bash, editing, setuid, and process fork.
- In-Depth experience developing Graphical User Interfaces in a Unix environment, using X-windows and Motif.
- Working experience with Postgres database, table record creation, and SQL.
- In-depth experience with TCP/IP Sockets, creating Daemons, inter-process communication, semaphores, file locking.
- Working experience of Code Configuration Management, Jira Issue Management. Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Working knowledge of industry standard file formats including ASAM e.V A2L, Intel H32, Motorola S-records.
- Knowledge of GTK+, Wayland, Builder Xcessory
- Knowledge of control system software and calibration development including ATI/Vision, ETAS/Inca.
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 & Tools
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Soft Skills
oral communicationwritten communicationorganizational skills