# Tech Platform Applications Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Salary grade 7-8
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this role, you will support the application, integration, and validation of the FNV 3.x Electrical Architecture to a specific vehicle.

## Responsibilities

- Represent the Tech Platform in Vehicle Program forums, and represent the interests of Vehicle Programs in platform efforts

- Champion complexity control within program content and cross carlines

- Support delivery of vehicle programs, OTA updates, and quality actions

- Drive architecture and strategy changes through cross-functional teams and throughout the lifecycle of the Programs

- Manage communication of all changes, cost, investment, and adherence to feature/hardware bundle requirements through standard scorecards

- Partner with Vehicle Programs to ensure balanced enterprise solutions with focus on Platform approach

- Drive a quality focus into Platform disciplines including leading metrics

- Drive cost opportunities at a Platform level through the Vehicle Program life cycle (TVM)

- Drive the execution of technology migration plans and productivity-related initiatives

- Manage Platform timelines, risk mitigation plans and cost/investment to ensure on-time and on-target delivery

- Execute assigned tasks related to vehicle program deliverables, including tracking and updating program-related progress and evidence in tools like Integrator or Jira

- Support the creation, documentation, and maintenance of program-specific system requirements, Bills of Features, and technical documentation (e.g., Tech Unit PDL)

- Assist in identifying potential risks to system delivery and support the development and documentation of Delivery Recovery Plans (DRPs)

- Escort changes through the required Decision Forums (DFs): Architecture Change Control, Unified Backlog, Platform Change Control, Vehicle Program Change Control, etc.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field

- 5+ years of experience in product development, systems engineering, or electrical/software integration, preferably within the automotive industry

- Basic understanding of vehicle electrical architectures, software integration principles, and overall system design

- Proficiency in identifying and escalating technical issues and risks within complex systems

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively within a team

- Familiarity with common engineering tools and software (e.g., Jira, Integrator, or similar project management/issue tracking systems)

## Benefits

- 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
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Jira
- Integrator

### Nice to have
- ADAS
- infotainment
- body controls
- powertrain controls
- GPDS
- FPDS
- TARR
- NPV

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