Description
We're seeking a highly skilled and motivated Powertrain Controls Platform Architect to join our Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team. This role is crucial for the development and integration of powertrain control modules, ensuring robust and efficient operation across various vehicle applications within the evolving landscape of Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs).
The successful candidate will be instrumental in configuring communication stacks and bootloaders, debugging low-level software, optimizing memory and chrono usage, and contributing to the architectural design of multi-core microcontroller solutions.
A strong understanding of automotive embedded systems, C programming, bootloaders, low-level embedded software stack, AUTOSAR BSW, and sophisticated build processes is essential, coupled with an awareness of broader SDV platform concepts and how they impact powertrain systems.
Responsibilities include:
- Configuring and managing the communication stack for powertrain control modules using DaVinci.
- Configuring AUTOSAR BSW components to ensure safety, security, stability, reliability, and performance within the powertrain domain.
- Mastering debugging and problem-solving using Lauterbach to troubleshoot low-level processor resets and software issues.
- Developing and updating section maps for Infineon TC38xx and TC39xx microcontrollers to optimize linking and building of applications.
- Contributing to architecting the platform and strategically distributing runnables across different cores within powertrain microcontroller modules.
- Developing C-code-based high-level drivers to interface with supplier-provided low-level drivers.
- Integrating diverse software components into the powertrain platform.
- Maintaining an understanding of Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) platform systems.
Qualifications include:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent degree.
- Mastery of C programming for resource-constrained environments and low-level hardware abstraction.
- Deep understanding of MCU architecture, including multi-core synchronization, memory protection units (MPU), and DMA.
- Experience in Tricore or ASIL-D Complaint Automotive microcontrollers MCAL/Low level drivers.
- Experience with UDS (ISO 14229) services, specifically Service0x100x100x10(Diagnostic Session Control),0x110x110x11(ECU Reset),0x340x340x34(Request Download), and0x360x360x36(Transfer Data).
- Toolchain proficiency, including compilers (GHS, Tasking, or GCC) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing tools.
- Proficiency with Lauterbach Trace32 or similar hardware debuggers.
- Experience in Functional safety process for ASIL-D and developing ASIL-D compliant boot software.
Preferred qualifications include knowledge of SDV and applicability to the powertrain domain, including how bootloaders interact with Vehicle OS layers and cloud-based update managers, and experience with Python or Perl for automation script development.
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above?