# Feature Commissioning Chief Engineer

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

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## Description

Ford is seeking a Feature Commissioning Chief Engineer to lead a global team responsible for delivering high-quality electrical systems integration across vehicle programs and platforms.

The ideal candidate will bring strong automotive systems expertise, proven leadership experience, excellent cross-functional communication skills, and a continuous improvement mindset.

**Responsibilities**

- Provide strategic direction and leadership to the Feature Commissioning Engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence.

- Design and drive new next-generation platform integration strategies, providing integration feedback and testing for early hardware and software releases.

- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive execution and apply a cross-functional vehicle- and system-level mindset to lead teams in issue root cause analysis.

- Ensure the highest standards of quality and reliability in feature commissioning through rigorous testing, validation, and verification.

- Facilitate the integration of electromechanical systems and achieve Chief-level systems sign-off across programs.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives through AI, automation, and process efficiency to optimize feature development processes, tools, and methodologies.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

- Minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in system engineering, software development, or related technical roles within the automotive industry.

- Proven expertise in defining, developing, and optimizing secure and safe feature systems for vehicles.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively engage with cross-functional teams, external partners, and stakeholders.

- Proven leadership abilities, with a track record of mentoring and guiding technical teams.

**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

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- System Engineering
- Software Development
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- Ford engineering tools
- AVBOM
- WERS
- AIMS
- 5Ds
- eFDVS
- Jama
- Engineering Sign Off
- DFMEA
- Six Sigma
- Confluence
- Jira

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