# Senior Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Palo Alto, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $138,800-$232,700 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/71986?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_2aa7015c-a60 ## Description Body systems play a critical role in delivering the customer experience across a wide range of vehicle features, hardware, and software. Our team develops and integrates controls for seats, tailgates, windows, latches, wipers, mirrors, sensing systems, interior and exterior lighting, and other low-voltage motor-driven systems across vehicle domains. We work closely with Interior, Exterior, Low-Voltage Electrical Architecture, UI/UX, Systems, Hardware, and Software teams to deliver seamless, reliable, and intuitive end-to-end vehicle experiences. We are seeking a highly skilled Embedded Controls Software Engineer to join our Body Controls team. The ideal candidate has a strong background in embedded software development for complex, distributed, safety-critical systems, with hands-on experience developing device drivers and control strategies for low-voltage motors, actuators, sensors, and lighting systems. ## Responsibilities - Specify, design, and implement software architecture for body controls firmware, taking ownership of the software codebase from initial prototype bring-up to high-volume production. - Develop control and estimation algorithms for body control features such as window systems, closure systems, lighting, and other actuator-based functions. - Lead the design, integration, and validation of body controls hardware components on electrical test assets, including benches, bucks, lab cars, and vehicles. - Collaborate with software integration teams to bring up core functions and translate software-level requirements 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. ## Qualifications - 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. ## 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 programming - Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) - embedded software development - electrical hardware applications - vehicle network protocols - functional safety - systems development ### Nice to have - driver development - RTOS integration - software build tools - fundamental PCB hardware components - test script development --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/71986?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)