# System Software Integration and Validation Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $85,400-$143,200, $99,600-$166,600, $115,000-$192,900
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is seeking a System Software Integration and Validation Engineer to play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of their automotive systems.

The successful candidate will design, develop, and execute verification and validation activities to ensure that software meets the highest standards of safety and performance.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and maintain complex automotive system level test benches to validate automotive systems with a focus on automation.

- Develop comprehensive verification and validation plans for automotive software systems and features.

- Design and execute test cases and test scripts to verify system functionality, performance, and safety.

- Develop and implement automation scripts and tools to enhance testing efficiency and accuracy.

- Integrate hardware and software components to create reliable and scalable test environments.

- Lead debug of any issues encountered, working with cross-functional teams across the organization.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software developers, controls engineers, and systems engineers to define and implement V&V strategies.

- Continuously improve testing processes and tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

- Prepare and present detailed reports on verification activities and results to stakeholders.

- Review warranty data to identify emerging trends and develop corrective actions.

- Willingness to travel – up to 20% domestic/international travel required.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- 6+ years of experience in the automotive or relevant industry.

- Strong understanding of automotive systems, embedded software, and control systems.

- Demonstrated experience with automotive testing instrumentation and tools.

- Proficiency in automotive communication protocols such as CAN, LIN, Ethernet, and FlexRay.

- Working knowledge of IDLs such as DBC, LDF, ARXML, and work with internal IDLs and frameworks.

- Experience with automotive or aerospace HIL test benches, particularly with dSPACE, Vector VT, or similar platforms.

- Experience writing and executing automated and manual tests.

- Deep expertise in the EE architecture and integration of complex automotive systems.

- Proven track record of collaborating with large, cross-functional teams across hardware, software, and systems engineering.

- Deep understanding of software development lifecycle and automotive testing methodologies.

- Experience in system-level debugging and root-cause analysis across software and hardware boundaries.

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.

Salary:

- Salary grade 6: $85,400-$143,200.

- Salary grade 7: $99,600-$166,600.

- Salary grade 8: $115,000-$192,900.

## Skills

### Required
- automotive systems
- embedded software
- control systems
- automotive testing instrumentation
- CAN
- LIN
- Ethernet
- FlexRay
- DBC
- LDF
- ARXML
- dSPACE
- Vector VT
- HIL test benches
- automated and manual tests
- EE architecture
- integration of complex automotive systems

### Nice to have
- Masters or PhD degree in a relevant engineering field
- safety-critical software development
- ISO 26262
- C/C++
- Python
- MATLAB
- testing fully electric vehicles

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