# Staff Vehicle Product Management Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, 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

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic person to lead our System Software Verification and Validation (V&V) team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in automotive testing and a proven track record of managing complex testing projects.

### Responsibilities

#### Validation Strategy and Planning

- Define and lead the system-level validation strategy for embedded software and vehicle systems, from early development through program release.

- Own the system-level test and validation plan, aligning requirements, risks, program objectives, and timing.

- Partner with systems, feature, software, and attribute owners to establish requirements traceability, test coverage, and clear acceptance criteria.

- Identify validation gaps early and ensure test plans, test cases, and scripts address functional and non-functional requirements.

#### System-Level Test Execution

- Lead validation across integrated systems, ECUs, software, interfaces, and vehicle domains at system level test properties and vehicles.

- Oversee integration, system, and acceptance testing to verify behavior across system boundaries and operating conditions.

- Coordinate test resources, environments, and schedules to meet program milestones.

- Ensure test results, risks, and release-readiness assessments are documented and communicated clearly and on time.

#### Issue Resolution and Quality

- Lead cross-functional investigations, including root-cause analysis, fix verification, and actions to prevent regression.

- Analyze test results and provide actionable feedback to development teams.

- Establish and monitor metrics for test coverage, execution, defect trends, and validation effectiveness.

#### Team and Stakeholder Leadership

- Lead, mentor, and develop validation and verification engineers; assign work based on team priorities and development needs.

- Manage customer validation requirements and present progress, results, and risks to senior leaders and stakeholders.

- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, innovation, quality, and safety.

### Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field.

- 12+ years of experience in automotive systems, embedded software, or system validation.

- Experience leading or mentoring engineers and managing competing program priorities.

- Strong collaboration and communication skills, including experience working across hardware, software, systems engineering, and program teams.

- Experience defining and delivering system-level validation strategies from concept through production.

- Experience managing validation schedules, resources, or lab capacity.

- Familiarity with vehicle testing standards and customer-specific validation requirements.

- Strong understanding of vehicle E/E architecture, embedded software, control systems, and cross-domain integration.

- Experience with system-level testing across benches, HIL platforms, and vehicles; familiarity with tools such as Vector or dSPACE.

- Knowledge of automotive networks and related formats, such as CAN, LIN, Ethernet, FlexRay, DBC, LDF, and ARXML.

- Experience developing, reviewing, or guiding automated and manual test execution, including smoke and regression testing.

- Experience with test automation, smoke and regression testing, requirements traceability, defect triage, and system-level debugging.

- Ability to interpret electrical and logical schematics, network diagrams, and wiring or harness drawings.

- Working knowledge of Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262, or other applicable development and safety processes.

- Experience integrating validation and regression testing into continuous integration workflows.

### 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
- Vector
- dSPACE
- CAN
- LIN
- Ethernet
- FlexRay
- DBC
- LDF
- ARXML
- Automotive SPICE
- ISO 26262

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