Staff Body Controls System Engineer & Integration

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