# Robotics Research Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $141,066.00 - $175,912.32/yr
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress.

Ford's Research and Advanced Engineering team takes new ideas from theory to reality.

## Responsibilities

Plan, control and coordinate the motion of a heterogeneous fleet of robots in semi-structured and dynamic environments with distributed sensing. Use advanced compute systems to solve scheduling problems. Object/people classification/recognition in environments with non-uniform lighting and incorporating associated models of uncertainty in motion planning and interaction decision making. Oversee vision-based safety enhancement/enforcement in industrial settings. Perform visual inspection of vehicles for abnormality detection/identification.

## Qualifications

Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Alternatively, employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

## Required Skills

- 2 years of experience with each of the following skills:

- Development of algorithms related to Motion Planning or Perception for inclusion on robotic research platforms.

- Utilize programming or software development in C++ and Python, including embedded software, for code reviews and robotic implementation and deployment.

- 1 year of experience with each of the following skills:

- Deploying controls and motion planning software on robotic hardware.

- Testing system functionality using Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) Testing.

- Translating design requirements into functional specifications.

- Data visualization, including formatting analytics data, and presenting data to senior engineers.

- Integrating hardware and software systems to meet functional requirements.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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
- Motion Planning
- Perception
- C++
- Python
- Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) Testing
- Data Visualization

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