V&V Governance Engineer

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners.

The V&V Governance QOS Engineer is a technical role responsible for strengthening Verification & Validation governance, process alignment, assessment readiness, and quality analytics. The role aligns V&V execution to FAP03-149, applicable Ford FAP/QOS procedures, ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE, and, where applicable, ISO 8800.

Responsibilities:

• Define, maintain, and improve V&V QOS processes, governance routines, templates, and assessment criteria aligned to FAP03-149, Ford FAP/QOS procedures, ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE, and ISO 8800 where applicable.
• Map Agile execution artifacts to formal DV/PV and Software Test Plan expectations, including requirement applicability, SME reviews, milestone timing, evidence retention, regulatory controls, and deviation handling.
• Own end-to-end traceability rules and automate checks for missing links, incomplete evidence, stale data, and assessment readiness gaps.
• Lead tool confidence and evidence governance for systems used to create, manage, or report verification evidence.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs/KRIs, audit automation, and quality predictive analytics to identify leading indicators, defect escape risk, evidence risk, and milestone readiness concerns.
• Drive corrective/preventive actions, process adoption, training, and stakeholder alignment across V&V, quality, safety, software, and program teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience defining, deploying, or assessing V&V, quality, safety, or regulated engineering processes.
• Working knowledge of FAP03-149 or equivalent DV/PV governance, including verification planning, evidence expectations, reviews, milestones, regulatory requirements, and deviation management.
• Assessment-capable knowledge of ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE, and/or ISO 8800, with ability to evaluate evidence, document gaps, and drive corrective/preventive actions.
• Ability to build or govern dashboards, metrics, traceability checks, and audit automation using data-driven methods.
• Experience applying quality predictive analytics, including trend analysis, leading indicators, risk modeling, and preventive action planning.
• Strong communication, stakeholder alignment, and process adoption skills across cross-functional engineering teams.

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.