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Ford Motor Company

Staff Diagnostics and Embedded Cyber Security Engineer

Ford Motor Company
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hybrid staff full-time $150,200-$283,500 Palo Alto, CA

First indexed 29 Aug 2026

Description

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.

In this position, Ford Model E Platform Architecture Engineering is looking for a Staff Diagnostics and Embedded Cyber Security Engineer to be part of the microcontroller which is designing the software stack from ground up to enable a best in class vehicle infotainment platform using the latest technologies. You will be contributing to key features like vehicle access, networking and power management for highly complex systems across various domains to improve performance as well as the user experience for Ford customers.

Responsibilities

  • Define, design and develop complex features with multiple stakeholders for the next generation of Ford Electric Vehicles.
  • Collaborate with the Hardware, Systems and Integration teams to develop requirements and functional test cases for features including CI/CD tests when possible.
  • Lead the effort to diagnose and improve existing features to enhance the Ford customer experience.
  • Collaborate with teams across software, hardware, integration, UI/UX and others to drive innovation and tackle any issues that arise throughout the product development cycle.
  • Develop tooling as well as diagnostic and other interfaces between various vehicle access components.
  • Integrate the software and feature into the controller’s codebase.
  • Use data driven analysis tools to verify and diagnose vehicle software in the field.

Qualifications

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
  • 10+ years proven working experience in software engineering.
  • Experience in hands-on development and troubleshooting of embedded systems.
  • Programming experience in C, C++ and Python.
  • Experience with Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS), Linux and building concurrent systems.
  • Strong documentation, writing, and communications skills.
  • Must be willing to learn and dive into unknown areas.

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.
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