# Staff Systems Engineer, Multimedia Platforms

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Palo Alto, 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

At Ford Motor Company, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Product Creation and Industrialization (PC&I) brings together Ford’s vehicle, electric, digital and design teams with our global manufacturing system. Working as one end-to-end organization, we turn ideas into high-quality vehicles, software and experiences across gas, hybrid and electric, designed around what customers need.

As a Staff Systems Engineer, Multimedia Platforms, you will lead the architecture, integration, and performance optimization of next-generation multimedia platforms for Ford Advanced EV group. This role drives technical strategy across graphics, touch, audio, video, networking, and embedded systems to deliver responsive, reliable, secure, and differentiated user experiences.

## Responsibilities

- Define end-to-end multimedia architecture, interfaces, requirements, and integration strategy.

- Lead integration across applications, middleware, operating systems, drivers, networks, and hardware.

- Establish performance targets and optimization strategies for latency, responsiveness, throughput, CPU, GPU, memory, power, and thermal behavior.

- Drive system characterization, bottleneck analysis, and root-cause resolution using data and telemetry.

- Guide architectural trade-offs across performance, reliability, scalability, safety, security, cost, and delivery.

- Identify systemic risks and drive resolution across organizational boundaries.

- Influence technical direction and engineering standards across teams.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

- 7+ years of experience in embedded systems, systems architecture, or multimedia platforms.

- Deep expertise in graphics, touch, audio, video, networking, and connected systems.

- Strong understanding of hardware-software integration, operating systems, real-time systems, and distributed architectures.

- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- 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

- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day

## Skills

### Required
- computer science
- Computer Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- embedded systems
- systems architecture
- multimedia platforms
- graphics
- touch
- audio
- video
- networking
- connected systems

### Nice to have
- embedded Linux
- Android
- RTOS
- modern development toolchains
- GPU
- display
- network architecture
- rendering pipelines
- codecs
- hardware acceleration
- streaming protocols
- performance-profiling tools
- automotive functional safety
- ISO 26262
- hazard analysis
- safety requirements
- safety-oriented system design
- automotive cybersecurity
- ISO/SAE 21434
- threat analysis and risk assessment
- secure architecture
- defense-in-depth

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