System Integration Engineer - Body Controls

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford Product Development team. Utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods, you’ll work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We’re seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable software architectures in Embedded C for bare-metal systems and RTOS-based environments.
• Manage memory constraints (stack/heap analysis) and optimize code for execution speed and power efficiency.
• Enforce industry standards such as MISRA C or CERT C through rigorous static analysis and manual code reviews.
• Debug complex firmware issues using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG/SWD debuggers.
• System requirements analysis and convert them to software level requirements.
• Work within MATLAB/Simulink to develop control algorithms and oversee the integration of auto-generated C code into the manually written codebase.
• Author detailed System Requirements and Software Design Documents (SDD).
• Lead Integration Testing efforts and develop unit tests and integration test suites to validate software modules in a Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) environment.
• Act as a power user of GitHub for version control (branching strategies, CI/CD integration) and Jira for tracking development sprints, bug reports, and task allocation.
• Domestic Travel Required up to 10%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electronic Engineering or a related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• 5 years of experience with each of the following skills:

1. Utilizing full software development lifecycle using a Model Based Design (MBD) methodology.
2. Deriving detailed software requirements and architectural logic from system level specifications, leveraging tools including Jama and Jira.
3. Implementing complex control algorithms through high level MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow models.
4. Creating comprehensive unit tests and performing structural coverage analysis within Simulink Test.
5. Overseeing the integration of software components and conducting Model in the Loop (MIL) regression testing.
6. Utilizing GitHub for version control and lifecycle management of software deliverables.
7. Analyzing system-level requirements to define and finalize sub-system specifications.
8. Managing requirements within Jama to ensure full documentation and bidirectional traceability.

• 3 years of experience with each of the following skills:

1. Authoring and executing comprehensive unit test suites within Simulink Test.
2. Utilizing Simulink coverage to perform structural analysis.
3. Using Jira to track daily tasks, manage requirements, and oversee test case execution.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.