# Ford Racing Vehicle Integration Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Allen Park, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $74,300-$166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Racing is where Ford's story began. In 1901, Henry Ford climbed into a car he built himself and won a race, giving birth to the Ford Motor Company.

As a Vehicle Integration Engineer within Ford Racing's Vehicle Engineering team, you will lead the end-to-end vehicle development, testing, and validation of future Ford Racing products, ensuring technical excellence and an emotive customer experience.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead Design Confirmation Vehicle (DCV) development and launch activities for Ford Racing programs, ensuring all engineering gateways and milestones are met with high quality and efficiency.

- Translate customer insights into balanced vehicle-level requirements and cascade them into system-level targets, managing technical tradeoffs across cross-functional teams to preserve 'emotional delight' features.

- Oversee the lifecycle of test vehicles, including hardware/software maturity tracking and 'Fit for Test' certification, while optimizing testing processes to improve Design Validation (DV) efficiency.

- Direct Track and Off-Road Durability testing, including resource planning, logistics, and safety, ensuring events are financially responsible and productive.

- Lead final validation of vehicle emotive experiences, including assessment and preparation of media vehicles for flawless external representation.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent engineering degree.

- 2 - 5+ years of experience in Vehicle Engineering, Product Development, or a related automotive engineering role.

- Proven ability to lead and facilitate cross-functional teams in solving complex technical issues while building strong professional relationships.

- Experience in vehicle testing and validation, including the ability to assess 'Fit for Test' status for hardware and software.

- Experience managing engineering milestones, gateways, and program documentation within a formal product development system.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills to translate complex technical tradeoffs into customer-focused insights for executive and multi-departmental audiences.

**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.

**Salary**

- Salary grade 6: $74,300-$124,500

- Salary grade 7: $86,600-$144,900

- Salary grade 8: $99,100-$166,200

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Vehicle Engineering
- Product Development
- Cross-functional team management

### Nice to have
- 5+ years of vehicle-level automotive product development experience
- Proven track record delivering complete automotive product development cycles
- Experience with modern software development processes
- Over-The-Air (OTA) updates
- Feature delivery alongside traditional mechanical systems

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