ADAS FuSA Software Developer

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

Join the Ford Product Development team as an ADAS FuSA Software Developer.

Utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods, you’ll work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers.

Responsibilities

• Conduct software development to generate, test, and calibrate Advance Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) features.
• Use Functional safety software development processes per ISO 26262 Chapter 6 guidelines defined for software along with OEM-specific strategy to develop functional safety software components that Ford is responsible for.
• Utilize Fusa component model-based development using Matlab Simulink and embedded C.
• Review feature technical safety requirements, including ASIL/QM partner requirements and to develop software safety requirements.
• Support software development engineers to derive architecture from safety software requirements.
• Conduct detailed design work products for in-house Functional safety components.
• Perform and support software unit verification within the MIL/SIL environment based on software unit design and perform software functional testing based on software architecture design and requirements.
• Support embedded software testing in the HIL/vehicle environment based on software safety requirements.
• Deliver software safety analysis work products.
• Domestic and International Travel Required up to 5%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electronics Engineering or a related field and 6 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• 4 years of experience with each of the following skills is required:

1. Applying Automotive Embedded Engineering to work with microcontrollers and SW development tools.
2. Applying automotive SW development process to deliver SW artifacts.
3. Using compliers, Linker design, debuggers and build process for SW development.
4. Applying model-based system engineering and related tools including MATLAB tool chain to develop safety or non-safety software components.
5. Using requirement engineering to author quality SW requirements.
6. Utilizing Automotive protocol simulation, replay, bus monitoring, calibration tools including Canape and Canoe to monitor vehicle bus traffic and trigger communication from simulation tool for testing focus ECU.
7. Applying standard communication protocols including CAN, SPI, LIN and diagnostics for software design and implementation changes.

• 1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required:

1. Performing software safety analysis to support development of functional safety software components.
2. Reviewing technical safety requirements and safety concepts to ensure compliance with functional safety standards.
3. Reviewing software architecture for safety-related software components to ensure alignment with safety 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.