# Product Design Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $99,600-$166,600
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford's Research and Advanced Engineering team develops advanced energy management and propulsion technologies, creates cutting-edge materials and manufacturing processes, and curates world-class cabin experiences.

The Propulsive Vehicle Controls Software Engineer position involves designing, implementing, and validating powertrain customer software components involving torque management and driver interface systems.

## Responsibilities

- Working with a cross-function team, develop and capture requirements for powertrain customer interface features and technologies.

- Translate requirements into control system designs to achieve program targets.

- Design and validate control algorithms (Model Based Design with Matlab/Simulink and C-code) to meet functional, regulatory, safety requirements, and functional safety requirements (ISO 26262).

- Develop & apply powertrain control system software validation test methods, tools, and processes to ensure system functionality and robustness.

- Develop powertrain system plant models and HIL/SIL/MIL validation infrastructure to support vehicle program plans and quality objectives.

- Troubleshoot vehicle / powertrain system functional and diagnostic issues; determine / validate corrective actions and preventive measures.

- Lead control system project planning and program management to meet functional, quality, and timing objectives.

## Qualifications

- B.S. degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or related field; or foreign equivalency degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- 2+ years' experience in C in automotive embedded controls.

- 2+ years experience with MATLAB/Simulink Software Development in automotive systems.

- 3+ years developing or integrating PT control features.

- 2+ years experience developing embedded control algorithms.

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- MATLAB/Simulink
- automotive embedded controls
- PT control features
- embedded control algorithms

### Nice to have
- M.S. degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or related field
- Experience with torque arbitration, pedal shaping, and driver interfaces
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Jama, Unity/Ceedling, GitHub, and/or ClearCase
- Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

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