Feature Systems Engineer

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

Ford Next is focused on rapidly incubating & launching new vehicle-adjacent businesses to create long-term value for the company beyond the wheel. Ford Next team members are flexible, with a startup mindset -- this is a group that thrives on moving quickly and growing through change.

Responsibilities

As a Feature Systems Engineer, you will design, develop, validate, and release automotive systems, subsystems, and components for Electric Vehicle features. Your responsibilities will include:

• Interacting with electrical module engineers and software development teams to scope and define Electric Vehicle system interfaces
• Developing and refining design validation methods for ensuring proper Electric Vehicle feature-level performance
• Creating system requirements and feature specifications for Electric Vehicle functions
• Planning and executing design verification plans to ensure proper feature-level performance
• Signing off on feature-level performance and executing real-world evaluations to identify system problems and issues
• Supporting and coordinating root-cause analysis with internal and external suppliers
• Integrating and configuring Electric Vehicle models and other software packages to enable pre-production feature-level verification
• Ensuring Electric Vehicle system designs, functional safety, cybersecurity, and other deliverables

Qualifications

To qualify for this role, you will need:

• A Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering or a related field
• 3 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation
• 3 years of experience authoring and documenting comprehensive system requirements using Gherkin syntax
• 2 years of experience with architecting, implementing, and integrating robust cloud-based system architectures, services, and software solutions for complex applications
• 2 years of experience developing and implementing high-performance software solutions using Python or C++
• 2 years of experience performing comprehensive vehicle diagnostics and troubleshooting, utilizing CAN tools
• 2 years of experience designing, developing, and integrating robust Network and Mobile Application APIs
• 1 year of experience designing and optimizing intuitive customer experience interfaces (CXI) with a focus on user-centered design principles and usability

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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