Senior Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls

into electrical hardware and system requirements.

• ✓Apply functional safety principles and participate in safety analyses for complex vehicle subsystems.
• ✓Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate firmware functionality, stability, robustness, and performance across operating conditions, including low-power modes.
• ✓Drive body controls feature development cross-functionally with hardware, software, architecture, systems, validation, and program teams.
• ✓Author feature boundary diagrams, subsystem block diagrams, validation strategies, and technical documentation.
• ✓Lead subsystem reviews across all phases of vehicle program development.
• ✓Support early firmware development activities, including hardware validation, lab car testing, and automation framework development for unit, SIL, and HIL testing.

You'll have...

• ✓Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, or equivalent experience with evidence of exceptional ability.
• ✓5+ years of experience writing clean, efficient, and robust production-grade C code for real-time embedded systems, with a strong understanding of coding standards like MISRA C.
• ✓Hands-on experience developing with Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) (e.g., FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS, OSEK/AUTOSAR) as well as bare-metal embedded software environments.
• ✓Strong experience in low-level debugging, hardware bring-up, and optimizing code for timing constraints, memory (RAM/Flash) footprint, and low-power modes.
• ✓5+ years of experience in electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.
• ✓5+ years of experience with vehicle network protocols such as CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet.
• ✓Strong electrical engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment, including oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, signal generators, power supplies, and related tools.
• ✓5+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools in automotive, aerospace, or a similar embedded systems environment.
• ✓Working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, battery technologies, software and hardware tool development, motor calibration, OBD calibration, functional safety, networks, and diagnostics processes.
• ✓Experience creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning test results.

Even better, you may have...

• ✓Highly collaborative mindset with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• ✓Experience with driver development and RTOS integration.
• ✓Experience with software build tools such as Bazel, SCons, CMake, or similar tools.
• ✓Experience with fundamental PCB hardware components and related analysis tools.
• ✓Ability to develop test scripts using scripting languages such as Python.
• ✓Strong software fundamentals, including software design, maintainability, and code quality.
• ✓Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.
• ✓Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals, including circuit analysis and design.

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 8