# RF & Security Supervisor

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,800-$250,800
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Do you want to drive business strategy and define products for software and digital experiences? As an RF & Security Supervisor at Ford Motor Company, you will lead a global team of engineers responsible for the development, integration, launch, and field quality of vehicle radio frequency (RF), access, and security systems.

In this position, you will guide both core and application engineering activities across the product lifecycle, balancing technical excellence, regulatory compliance, customer experience, quality, and cost. This role requires a hands-on technical leader who can develop people, prioritize competing demands, resolve complex cross-functional issues, and communicate effectively with suppliers and senior management.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead, coach, and develop a geographically dispersed team of engineers, fostering collaboration, technical ownership, and data-driven problem-solving.

- Assign work, manage team capacity, and prioritize hardware and software requests based on customer impact, risk, program timing, and business value.

- Oversee core and application engineering for vehicle access and security components, including key fobs, NFC readers and cards, door handle sensors, and immobilizer systems.

- Guide the development and integration of hardware, software, and system requirements across vehicle programs and architectures.

- Lead or support design reviews with suppliers and internal stakeholders, including Vehicle Operations, human factors, manufacturing, and program teams.

- Ensure component designs address RF performance, packaging, manufacturability, assembly, and customer usage.

- Oversee design verification plans and signoffs, including bench, hardware-in-the-loop, and vehicle testing aligned with program milestones.

- Guide engineering releases and program deliverables, including WERS, parts lists, buildability reviews, and other applicable documentation.

- Support supplier sourcing, design reviews, APQP, and PPAP activities, as applicable.

- Lead the investigation and resolution of launch, warranty, and field issues using quality trends, claim data, returned parts, and manufacturing information.

- Coordinate with Automotive Safety Office, legal, and technical specialists to interpret and address applicable vehicle safety and security requirements, including FMVSS 114.

- Oversee global RF certification and homologation activities, including submission tracking, compliant part markings, and owner's manual regulatory disclosures.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor of Science in Engineering or equivalent

- 8+ years of experience developing, integrating, testing, or launching automotive electrical or electronic systems, including hardware, software, and system interfaces.

- Experience leading technical projects or teams and coordinating work across functions and suppliers.

- Ability to travel to supplier facilities and Ford assembly plants as needed.

**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

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## Skills

### Required
- Engineering
- Automotive Electrical Systems
- Leadership
- Project Management

### Nice to have
- Masters in Engineering
- Experience with automotive RF, wireless, access, immobilizer or vehicle security systems
- Experience supervising or mentoring engineers across multiple locations
- Familiarity with DFMEA, design verification, APQP, and PPAP
- Experience with tools and processes such as CANalyzer, FEDE, JIRA, and WERS

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