# Embedded Software V&V Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,200-316,600
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford Model E is responsible for developing the key technologies and capabilities – such as EV platforms, batteries, e-motors, inverters, charging and recycling – to create ground-up breakthrough electric vehicles.

By joining the best software, engineering, design and UX talent, you will be a part of creating new technologies and concepts that can be applied across the Ford enterprise.

Being on the Ford Model E team means building the future as Ford’s center of innovation and growth through electric and connected vehicles and services.

### Responsibilities

#### Team Leadership & Management

- Lead and mentor a team of V&V engineers; foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.

- Assign tasks based on team strengths, manage project timelines, and oversee resources and budgets to ensure timely delivery of validation activities.

- Provide technical guidance and feedback to drive individual growth and team capability.

#### Strategy, Automation & Frameworks

- Define and implement comprehensive V&V strategies for embedded software, covering unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing.

- Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of robust automated test frameworks and infrastructure to maximize test coverage and efficiency.

- Establish and maintain V&V processes and methodologies (e.g., Agile, V-Model), continuously assessing emerging trends to improve quality and safety culture.

#### Test Execution & Quality Assurance

- Oversee the creation of test plans, cases, and scripts, ensuring thorough coverage of functional, non-functional, performance, and regression requirements.

- Establish quality metrics, analyze test results, lead root cause identification for reported issues, and track resolutions to ensure robust software delivery.

- Ensure all activities comply with relevant industry standards (ISO 26262, AUTOSAR) and internal quality processes.

#### Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

- Collaborate closely with software development, systems engineering, and product management to ensure seamless integration and traceability of requirements from system to component level.

- Present validation results, status reports, and actionable insights to senior management and external stakeholders (clients/suppliers).

- Participate in design reviews and safety analyses to integrate validation processes early in the development cycle.

### Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- 8+ years of experience in embedded software Verification & Validation (V&V) or Software Quality Assurance.

- At least 3 years of experience in a leadership or managerial role with a proven ability to motivate and guide technical teams.

- Deep understanding of the embedded software development lifecycle (SDLC) and methodologies (Agile, V-Model).

- Proficiency in programming languages used in V&V (e.g., Python, C/C++).

- Familiarity with automotive/embedded communication protocols (e.g., CAN, LIN, Ethernet, SPI, I2C).

- Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving abilities with excellent communication skills for stakeholder management.

### 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
- embedded software development
- Verification & Validation
- Software Quality Assurance
- leadership
- team management
- Python
- C/C++
- automotive communication protocols

### Nice to have
- Master’s or PhD degree in a relevant engineering field
- ISO 26262
- IEC 61508
- DO-178C
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
- Jira
- Azure DevOps
- DOORS
- Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)

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