Blue Cruise Core Integration Engineer

We bring engineering ideas to life. In Product Development, we make driving more exciting, enjoyable and sustainable.  Ford’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) team designs and develops hardware and functional models that provide Best-in-Class behavior for features like Adaptive Cruise Control, Automatic Emergency Braking, Cross Traffic Alert, Lane Centering Assist, BlueCruise, and 360 Camera Systems. We are seeking seasoned professionals who can contribute to our efforts with experience in the development of sensors, ECUs, models, and software. This position focuses on leading and supporting the engineering development for our BlueCruise features.

Responsibilities

• What you'll do...

• Support upgrades and enhancements to BlueCruise, by working closely with feature owners with modeling changes, regression testing, test vector support, data review, issue identification and supplier interaction.

• Support development and refinement of use cases and functional level requirements & targets for our next-generation BlueCruise features.

• Lead and support validation and verification of upgrades and enhancements to BlueCruise features, especially in-vehicle validation.

• Support replay and bench testing of algorithms to assess & improve performance of BlueCruise features, while conducting failure mode avoidance.

• Support feature model delivery to meet software delivery & program timing.

• Ensure system design, functional safety, and other deliverables allow for seamless integration with existing features and provide a thrilling user experience.

• Lead and support the development and refinement of design validation methods for ensuring proper feature-level performance across a variety of environmental and cross-carline noise factors.

• Support sign-off of feature level performance, particularly first vehicle line application.

• Support the development of data analysis techniques and methods from data generated by both track and real-world validation methods to ensure feature achieves the desired specifications.

• Manage feature/functional development timing by suppliers.

• Closely coordinate with feature development engineers to support execution of design verification plans to ensure proper feature-level performance.

• Support the planning and execution of real-world evaluations to identify system problems and issues.

• Support and coordinate root-cause analysis with internal and external suppliers to ensure delivered system thrills our customers with the user experience.

• Support Integration and model configuration, and other software packages with a variety of production and other in situ hardware to enable pre-production feature-level verification.

• Utilize AI tools and Agents for evaluation, developments, and design processes, while checking the results from an AI Tool. 

Qualifications

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering, or related field
• 2 year MATLAB/Simulink modeling experience in a professional or educational setting, in any combination.

Even better, you may have...

• Master’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, Controls, Computer, or Software Engineering.
• Developing and conducting laboratory and vehicle tests, data collection, and analysis, especially in the Automotive industry.
• Integration of hardware and software into vehicles, including equipment installation and software flashing.
• Experience with ANY of the following areas: Adaptive Cruise Control, Blind Spot Systems, Lane Keeping, Lane Centering Systems, or similar ADAS features.
• Experience with computer vision & radar tracking of humans, vehicles, static roadway obstacles or other typical road objects.
• Experience with computer vision detection & tracking of signs, lights, lanes and other key artifacts.
• Understanding of embedded hardware and software design.
• Experience reviewing, categorizing, and analyzing field data to determine error states / failure modes.
• Experience developing, conducting, observing, and reporting on statistically relevant experimentation / verification methods across the global population.
• Experience with Mobileye EyeQ technology
• Experience with model-based design methods in Simulink for creation/development and enhancement of current / new features.
• Understanding of Kalman filtering, vehicle dynamics, linear & nonlinear control methods.
• Software engineering & algorithm development experience in any language (C, C++, Python, MATLAB, etc.)
• Prior use of ML model or tools and ability to utilize AI/ML tools in development cycles.
• Ability to lead a small project and demonstrate ownership and showing initiatives to improve existing processes.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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.

This position is a salary grade 6-8 and ranges from $84,480- $166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.