ADAS Features Systems Engineer

Ford Motor Company

ADAS Features Systems Engineer at Ford working on innovative vehicle systems. Collaborating on features for advanced driver assistance and ensuring quality and safety standards.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $85,400 - $165,900 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the development of feature engineering deliverables including Concept, Logical and Technology requirements, Boundary diagrams, design analysis, Failure Mode Avoidance, robustness fields and test procedures.
Work with Hardware, Software and Test teams to ensure Feature requirements are cascaded, aligned, and accepted.
Develop and refine vehicle level uses cases, interfaces and feature level specification to ensure production feature delivery.
Establish Feature objectives and ensure system operation to meet the end-user/customer objectives through a structured system level test methodology
Work with Functional Safety engineers to develop and refine feature functional safety requirements, item definition, hazard analysis/risk assessment and functional safety concept incompliance with ISO-26262/Ford Functional Safety process.
Ensure new features seamlessly integrate with existing features to provide a superb customer experience
Work with the virtual validation teams to establish CAE procedures to reduce dependence on vehicle-level testing.
Assure that the integration of affected systems meet the requirements for desired feature-level performance
Support development of Design validation methods to ensure feature robustness across all vehicle environmental conditions and customer usage profiles
Use data analysis techniques and methods from data generated by track, lab and model-based validation method to ensure feature achieves a desired set of requirements.
Plan and help execute real-world evaluation of ADAS features via vehicle/HIL/virtual testing and identify system problems/issues
Support and coordinate root-cause analysis with internal functions and external suppliers to ensure delivered system achieves feature requirements
Support Sign-off of feature level performance for first vehicle program implementation
Gather quality history to manage and drive feature quality and improvements (i.e. Data Analytics/VOCF/Launch Feedback/Warranty/External Metrics such as JD Powers).

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, Computer Engineering or related degree; or foreign equivalency degree, or a combination of equivalent experience and education.
5+ years of experience developing in the ADAS domain using radars, cameras, LIDAR, ultrasonic sensors and/or other related vehicle systems (e.g. body, electrical, chassis, powertrain, etc.)
2+ years in system engineering including experience with the System V, Functional decomposition, design analysis, Concept, Logical and technology level requirements development, System integration and FMA analysis
Strong communication skills and ability to lead ad-hoc teams
10+ years of experience with ADAS systems (Preferred)
5+ years of experience with GPDS and program deliverables (Preferred)
5+ years of experience with ADAS Perception, Sensing, or Control systems (Preferred)
5+ years of experience with system architecture, design, and documentation (Preferred)
Experience with SysML/MagicDraw (Preferred)
Experience with Functional Safety (ISO26262) and Failure Mode Avoidance (Preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

feature engineeringsystem engineeringdesign analysisfunctional safetyhazard analysisrisk assessmentdata analysissystem integrationrequirements developmentFMA analysis

Soft Skills

strong communication skillsleadershipteam coordinationproblem-solving

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in EngineeringISO-26262 certification