Description
At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress.
Join the Ford Product Development team as an ADAS Functional Safety Engineer. You'll work on delivering breakthrough products and services that delight customers, focusing on advancements in autonomy, electrification, and smart mobility technologies.
Responsibilities
As an ADAS Functional Safety Engineer, you will:
- Lead the development and integration of Functional Safety work products on future vehicle program applications for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
- Develop the System Safety Concept, technical safety requirements, verification and acceptance criteria methods for next-generation microcontroller and microprocessor designs.
- Cascade technical safety requirements to hardware and software elements, ensuring complete requirement traceability.
- Support the development of interface specifications, FMEAs, FTAs, robustness discipline design, and dependent fault analysis for safety-related functions and features.
- Ensure correct sensor performance envelopes for specific vehicle applications as they relate to functional safety requirements.
- Identify vehicle application-specific potential hazards and Safety Goals with associated Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) ratings for ADAS features.
- Ensure successful application of the functional safety process for ADAS features on forward model vehicle programs.
- Coordinate with feature development engineers to support execution of functional safety design verification plans.
- Support sign-off of feature-level performance with respect to functional safety.
- Contribute to the development of the safety case through ISO26262 safety analysis methodologies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 4 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
- 4 years of experience with Functional Safety, including ISO 26262-3, -4, -5, -6, -7 standards applied to an Autonomous EV GoKart or ADAS project.
- 2 years of experience with Functional Safety implementing ISO 26262-9, -10 standards.
- 1 year of experience in embedded hardware or software design, developing Functional Safety Technical Concepts in Microsoft Word, verification and validation methods in Microsoft Excel, Agile Product Development Process, and developing boundary diagrams in Visio.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care
- 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
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time