Ford Motor Company

Vehicle Controls Engineering Technical Specialist

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: DearbornMissouriUnited 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.
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