Embedded Software Engineer

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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.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement software running on a distributed embedded system with multiple microcontrollers with a focus on creating re-usable software designs/components.
• Design and implement real-time Ethernet communication.
• Develop custom serial communication protocol over UART and I2C interfaces to support reliable data exchange between the device and external components.
• Specify requirements, design, implement, and test both bare metal and RTOS low-level software for creating a scalable platform.
• Work with/resolve ambiguity in requirements/specifications/designs.
• Create elegant, efficient real-time software components and interfaces.
• Develop software component testing methodologies and implementations to ensure maturity/stability/release readiness.
• Work with hardware and debuggers at a bench and HIL level to verify software operation.
• Define system-level power/compute/communication requirements and implement solutions that allow different applications to achieve different combinations of configurations.
• Profile power/CPU/bus usage and identify opportunities for optimization on the submodule as well as system level.
• Collaborate with V&V to develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions, including low power modes.
• Interface with external vendors, including review of firmware specifications, providing design guidance, and integrating code releases.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of design and firmware architecture

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, experience
• 5+ years of relevant experience in embedded design, using C/C++
• Experience with bare metal and RTOS environment
• Experience with JIRA/Confluence or a similar system for tracking inputs/results.
• Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including circuit analysis and design

Preferred Qualifications:

• Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills.
• Desire to work with vendors to integrate source code for new technology.
• Experience in driver development and RTOS integration. Zephyr OS experience is a plus.
• Experience with software build tools like Bazel, Scons, Cmake etc.
• Experience with fundamental hardware components on PCB and their analysis tools.
• Ability to write testing scripts for using scripting languages (Python)
• Fluent in software fundamentals including software design and maintainability.
• Hands-on experience in hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.