# Staff Embedded Software Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,200-$283,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Embedded Software Engineer to join our team at Ford Motor Company. As a Staff Embedded Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing firmware and controls for hybrid vehicle (HV) embedded systems, including battery management systems, charging, and motor controls.

## Responsibilities

You will be collaborating with many cross-functional teams from electrical architecture, system integration, and other platform software engineers for firmware development through all stages of the program development. Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading the design and implementation of firmware running on a distributed embedded system with multiple microcontrollers, focusing on optimizing power/energy consumption and safety

- Specifying, designing, implementing, and testing bare metal and RTOS low-level software for energy management and powertrain controls applications

- Developing embedded software from low-level base software to application modules

- Designing and specifying interfaces between application software and firmware

- Developing multicore, timing-critical software architectures

- Working with ambiguous requirements/specifications/designs and resolving them

- Creating elegant, efficient real-time software components and interfaces

- Developing software component testing methodologies and implementations to ensure maturity/stability/release readiness

- Working with hardware and debuggers at a bench and HIL level to verify software operation

- Designing ISO26262 compliant software

- Defining system-level power requirements and implementing low-power modes of operation for each microcontroller

- Instrumenting and profiling software to identify opportunities for optimization on the submodule and system level

- Developing comprehensive test plans and performing thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions, including low power modes

## Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

- 8+ years of relevant experience in embedded design

- High proficiency in programming experience using Embedded C

- A highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills

- Experience with JIRA/Confluence or a similar system for tracking inputs/results

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

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

- Ability to collaborate and communicate complex technical concepts

- Ability to deliver high-quality C code in a real-time embedded environment

- Proficiency in a variety of embedded architectures, from bare metal to RTOS implementations, as well as a deep understanding of modern multi-core 32-bit embedded controller peripherals and architecture

- Understanding of CI/CD pipeline and software build infrastructure

## Benefits

At Ford Motor Company, we offer a range of benefits, including:

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Embedded C
- RTOS
- Electrical Engineering
- Circuit Analysis
- Microcontrollers
- Firmware Development
- Software Testing
- CI/CD Pipeline
- Software Build Infrastructure

### Nice to have
- Low-level driver development
- RTOS integration
- Software build tools like Bazel, Scons, Cmake
- Fundamental hardware components on PCB and their analysis tools
- Testing scripts using scripting languages like Python

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