# HIL 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 seeking a HIL Engineer to support product development and system integration processes by designing, selecting, developing, and maintaining test strategies and test setups.

The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with integrated teams in Manufacturing, Product Development, Purchasing, Marketing, Sales, and Service to drive operational excellence through innovative initiatives.

**Responsibilities:**

- Document, review, and evaluate automation requirements; identify and select hardware and software tools to support validation objectives.

- Design, implement, validate, and maintain software-based test automation frameworks using best practices in software design and quality assurance.

- Procure, configure, and maintain hardware and software test assets; integrate automated test tools into unified, functional HIL simulation benches.

- Establish and implement configuration management architectures and pipelines to manage test artifacts, test data, and versioning across projects.

- Identify bottlenecks in the testing lifecycle and drive CI/CD and automation strategies to enhance test efficiency, test coverage, and execution speed.

- Author technical documentation, user guides, and standard operating procedures (SOPs); deliver technical training and support to validation engineering teams.

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, or a related field.

- 5+ years of hands-on experience commissioning, operating, and supporting dSPACE HIL simulators.

- 5+ years of experience with dSPACE ControlDesk and AutomationDesk software suites.

- 5+ years of experience working with automotive diagnostics engineering tools and ECU software flashing/download procedures.

- 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining reusable test automation libraries for System HIL environments.

- 4+ years of experience integrating and validating new hardware/I/O interface solutions on dSPACE platforms.

- 4+ years of software development experience with compiled and interpreted languages (e.g., Python, C++, MATLAB/Simulink, Visual Basic) and associated IDEs (e.g., MS Visual Studio).

- 4+ years of experience with in-vehicle networks (CAN, LIN) and vehicle network analysis/troubleshooting tools (e.g., Vector CANoe, CANalyzer).

- 2+ years of experience applying formal software testing and quality assurance (QA) methodologies.

- 2+ years of experience implementing software configuration management (SCM) systems and workflows (e.g., Git, SVN, PTC Integrity/Windchill).

- Domain experience with areas like High voltage / ADAS / chassis powertrain / cybersecurity.

**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.

**Salary:** $74,300 - $166,200

## Skills

### Required
- dSPACE HIL simulators
- dSPACE ControlDesk and AutomationDesk software suites
- automotive diagnostics engineering tools
- ECU software flashing/download procedures
- test automation libraries
- System HIL environments
- hardware/I/O interface solutions
- dSPACE platforms
- software development
- Python
- C++
- MATLAB/Simulink
- Visual Basic
- in-vehicle networks
- vehicle network analysis/troubleshooting tools
- formal software testing and quality assurance (QA) methodologies
- software configuration management (SCM) systems and workflows

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or Engineering Management
- experience developing and executing functional system test procedures
- electrical bench integration
- system-level debugging
- signal measurement/instrumentation
- defect reporting
- root-cause analysis (8D/Fishbone)
- vehicle electrical schematics
- power distribution
- distributed vehicle electronic architectures

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