# Senior Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Palo Alto
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,800-$232,700
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Body systems play a critical role in delivering the customer experience across a wide range of vehicle features, hardware, and software. Our team develops and integrates controls for seats, tailgates, windows, latches, wipers, mirrors, sensing systems, interior and exterior lighting, and other low-voltage motor-driven systems across vehicle domains.

We work closely with Interior, Exterior, Low-Voltage Electrical Architecture, UI/UX, Systems, Hardware, and Software teams to deliver seamless, reliable, and intuitive end-to-end vehicle experiences.

We are seeking a highly skilled Embedded Controls Software Engineer to join our Body Controls team. The ideal candidate has a strong background in embedded software development for complex, distributed, safety-critical systems, with hands-on experience developing device drivers and control strategies for low-voltage motors, actuators, sensors, and lighting systems.

Responsibilities:

- Develop control and estimation algorithms for body control features such as window systems, closure systems, lighting, and other actuator-based functions.

- Lead the design, integration, and validation of body controls hardware components on electrical test assets, including benches, bucks, lab cars, and vehicles.

- Collaborate with software integration teams to bring up core functions and translate software-level requirements into electrical hardware and system requirements.

- Apply functional safety principles and participate in safety analyses for complex vehicle subsystems.

- Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate firmware functionality, stability, robustness, and performance across operating conditions, including low-power modes.

- Drive body controls feature development cross-functionally with hardware, software, architecture, systems, validation, and program teams.

- Author feature boundary diagrams, subsystem block diagrams, validation strategies, and technical documentation.

- Lead subsystem reviews across all phases of vehicle program development.

- Support early firmware development activities, including hardware validation, lab car testing, and automation framework development for unit, SIL, and HIL testing.

Qualifications:

- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent experience with demonstrated technical capability.

- 3+ years of experience in electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.

- 3+ years of experience with vehicle network protocols such as CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet.

- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment, including oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, signal generators, power supplies, and related tools.

- 3+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools in automotive, aerospace, or a similar embedded systems environment.

- Working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, battery technologies, software and hardware tool development, motor calibration, OBD calibration, functional safety, networks, and diagnostics processes.

- Experience creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning test results.

Even better, you may have:

- Highly collaborative mindset with strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Experience with driver development and RTOS integration.

- Experience with software build tools such as Bazel, SCons, CMake, or similar tools.

- Experience with fundamental PCB hardware components and related analysis tools.

- Ability to develop test scripts using scripting languages such as Python.

- Strong software fundamentals, including software design, maintainability, and code quality.

- Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.

- Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals, including circuit analysis and design.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $138,800-$232,700.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

## Skills

### Required
- Embedded software development
- Device drivers
- Control strategies
- Low-voltage motors
- Actuators
- Sensors
- Lighting systems
- CAN
- LIN
- Automotive Ethernet
- Electrical engineering fundamentals
- Electrical test equipment
- Oscilloscopes
- Digital multimeters
- Signal generators
- Power supplies
- Embedded networking interface tools
- Systems development
- Vehicle architecture
- Battery technologies
- Software and hardware tool development
- Motor calibration
- OBD calibration
- Functional safety
- Networks
- Diagnostics processes

### Nice to have
- Driver development
- RTOS integration
- Software build tools
- PCB hardware components
- Scripting languages
- Python
- Software design
- Maintainability
- Code quality
- Hardware bring-up
- System debugging
- Code optimization
- Circuit analysis
- Circuit design

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