# Systems and Software Quality Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $74,300-$166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford Quality is responsible for driving continuous improvement efforts to deliver high-quality products and services. As a Systems and Software Quality Engineer, you will play a critical role in driving early defect detection and prevention to enhance software quality across Ford's automotive platforms.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead early defect detection and prevention strategies across software development

- Define methods and strategies for process improvement to enhance software quality and reliability

- Conduct software design reviews to ensure compliance with architectural and quality standards

- Support Failure Mode Analysis (FMA) efforts to proactively identify and mitigate software risks

- Participate in engineering joint reviews and quality reviews to ensure best practices in software development

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve software verification and validation processes

- Analyze warranty, field, and test data to identify systemic software quality issues and drive corrective actions

- Partner with suppliers and internal teams to enhance software quality, focusing on infotainment, connected gateways, and telematics

- Coach and train engineering teams on software quality best practices, including ISO 26262 (Functional Safety) and ASPICE compliance

- Contribute to process development and improvement within the software quality organization

- Effectively communicate complex software issues to both engineering teams and executive leadership

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

- 10+ years of software engineering experience in the automotive industry, with a strong focus on quality, warranty analysis, or verification & validation

- 10+ years of systems and Design and Release engineering experience in the automotive industry

- 3+ years of proven expertise in software defect detection and prevention methodologies

- 3+ years of experience in software design reviews to ensure compliance with architectural and quality standards

- 3+ years of strong background in experience with Failure Mode Analysis (FMA) for software systems

- 2+ years of experience in ISO 26262 Functional Safety implementation and assessments

- 2+ years of experience with embedded software development expertise, with experience in C/C++, AUTOSAR, or similar technologies

**Benefits:**

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare, 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
- Software Engineering
- Quality Assurance
- Failure Mode Analysis (FMA)
- ISO 26262 Functional Safety
- Embedded Software Development
- C/C++
- AUTOSAR

### Nice to have
- ASPICE
- DevOps
- Continuous Integration
- Automated Software Testing
- Open-Source Software Compliance
- Cybersecurity Best Practices
- Infotainment
- Connected Gateways
- Telematics

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