# Staff Body Controls System Engineer & Integration

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,200-$283,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## 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.

As a Staff Body Controls System Engineer & Integration, you will own end-to-end integration of body controls components from component hardware specification through bench bring-up, vehicle validation, and production launch. You will also own component-level bring-up and debug on benches, bucks, labcars, and vehicles, defining the process, running it hands-on, and serving as final technical authority on cross-domain issues.

Responsibilities:

- Own end-to-end integration of body controls components from component hardware specification through bench bring-up, vehicle validation, and production launch

- Own component-level bring-up and debug on benches, bucks, labcars, and vehicles, defining the process, running it hands-on, and serving as final technical authority on cross-domain issues

- Lead vehicle manufacturing integration and end-of-line validation for body controls components

- Drive supplier software for networked body controls components: review deliveries against requirements, drive defect triage and resolution with suppliers, and gate release readiness

- Develop and maintain network databases and interface artifacts (DBC, LDF, ARXML), coordinating with software and systems engineering to satisfy all feature and functional requirements

- Own interface definition with electrical hardware and distribution teams, creating boundary and block diagrams for body controls subsystems

- Define and execute integration and validation test plans covering both network behavior and discrete component behavior

- Support vehicle behavior decomposition into feature, system, and device requirements in JAMA, and maintain traceability from requirement to validation result

- Mentor engineers across the organization on integration process, hardware reasoning, and requirements quality

Qualifications:

- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

- 8+ years in automotive systems integration or comparable electromechanical systems engineering

- Hands-on experience authoring and releasing network databases for CAN, LIN, Ethernet, and managing their change control across ECUs and suppliers

- Experience with diagnostics and UDS-based service and configuration routines

- Component-level hardware fluency, motor and inductive load behavior, transient and fault current, thermal derating, protection circuitry, analog vs. digital input conditioning

- Strong systems engineering fundamentals, from requirements decomposition and traceability to interface definition and V&V planning

- Proficiency with oscilloscopes, DMMs, current probes, power supplies, and other electrical lab equipment

- First-principles debugging across electrical, software, and mechanical domains

- Strong knowledge of vehicle electrical architecture, functional safety, and diagnostics processes

- Ability to influence technical direction across teams and explain engineering rationale to suppliers and leadership

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

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- automotive systems integration
- electromechanical systems engineering
- CAN
- LIN
- Ethernet
- network databases
- diagnostics
- UDS-based service and configuration routines
- component-level hardware fluency
- motor and inductive load behavior
- transient and fault current
- thermal derating
- protection circuitry
- analog vs. digital input conditioning
- systems engineering fundamentals
- requirements decomposition and traceability
- interface definition and V&V planning
- oscilloscopes
- DMMs
- current probes
- power supplies
- electrical lab equipment
- first-principles debugging
- vehicle electrical architecture
- functional safety
- diagnostics processes

### Nice to have
- Body controls domain experience through a production launch
- Experience with test automation or scripting (Python, CAPL)
- Motor control, current sensing, position/Hall sensing, or anti-pinch algorithm experience
- Hardware or firmware design inside the component (microprocessor-based design, drivers, RTOS)
- DFMEA and HARA experience applying ISO 26262 to support homologation

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