# Vehicle Controls Communications Stack Software Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $84,480-$162,120
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford is seeking a highly skilled Embedded Software Engineer to join our Vehicle Controls team. In this role, you will be the subject matter expert for the communication stack, ensuring seamless data exchange across vehicle networks.

As a key member of our agile, technically expert engineering team, you will lead the configuration and integration of the Basic Software (BSW) Communication Stack using Vector tools such as DaVinci Configurator. You will develop embedded C software for communication interfaces, including CAN, CAN-FD, LIN, and Cybersecurity, ensuring high-performance and reliable data transmission.

Key responsibilities include:

- Architect & Configure: Lead the configuration and integration of the Basic Software (BSW) Communication Stack using Vector tools such as DaVinci Configurator.

- Software Development: Develop embedded C software for communication interfaces, including CAN, CAN-FD, LIN, and Cybersecurity, ensuring high-performance and reliable data transmission.

- Lifecycle Management: Manage communication stack software change requests, including planning and version control, participating in broad forums from team-level code reviews to management's change control boards, maintaining tests and documentation for specifications.

- Validation & Troubleshooting: Perform routine design verification along with advanced validation, debugging, and root-cause analysis of complex communication and timing issues using Vector CANAlyzer, CANoe, and Lauterbach Trace32.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with network architects and feature engineers to define signal interfaces and ensure powertrain requirements are accurately reflected in databases and embedded software implementation.

- Automation & Scripting: Design and maintain scripts and tools to automate the generation, validation, and testing of communication artifacts (ARXML, DBC, etc.) and build processes.

- Continuous Integration: Support the development of automated CI/CD pipelines for communication software, ensuring rapid and high-quality software releases.

We offer a competitive salary range of $84,480-$162,120, depending on skills and experience. This position is a salary grade 7 to 8.

## Skills

### Required
- Embedded Software Development
- C Programming
- AUTOSAR BSW Configuration
- Vector Tools
- CAN, CAN-FD, LIN, and Cybersecurity
- Communication Interfaces
- High-Performance and Reliable Data Transmission
- Lifecycle Management
- Version Control
- Code Reviews
- Change Control Boards
- Testing and Documentation
- Validation and Troubleshooting
- Debugging and Root-Cause Analysis
- Vector CANAlyzer
- CANoe
- Lauterbach Trace32
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Network Architects
- Feature Engineers
- Signal Interfaces
- Powertrain Requirements
- Databases
- Embedded Software Implementation
- Automation and Scripting
- Script Development
- Tool Maintenance
- Build Processes
- Continuous Integration
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Communication Software
- Rapid and High-Quality Software Releases

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