# Embedded Software Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $118,000-198,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We're seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to join our Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team. As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will design and implement software running on a distributed embedded system with multiple microcontrollers. Your focus will be on creating reusable software designs/components, designing and implementing real-time Ethernet communication, and developing custom serial communication protocols.

Responsibilities:

- Design and implement software running on a distributed embedded system with multiple microcontrollers.

- 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, or related field.

- 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.

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: This position is a general salary grade 7 and ranges from $118,000-198,000.

## Skills

### Required
- C/C++
- Embedded system
- Real-time Ethernet communication
- Custom serial communication protocol
- Bare metal and RTOS low-level software
- Software component testing methodologies
- Hardware and debuggers
- System-level power/compute/communication requirements
- Power/CPU/bus usage profiling
- Comprehensive test plans
- Firmware functionality, stability, and performance validation

### Nice to have
- Zephyr OS
- Bazel
- Scons
- Cmake
- Fundamental hardware components on PCB
- Scripting languages (Python)
- Software design and maintainability
- Hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization

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