Motion Controls Software Technical Specialist

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Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

 

As the Motion Controls Software Technical Specialist, you will be responsible for developing and implementing safety critical embedded controls software to control vehicle motion (propulsion, steering and/or braking). This also includes troubleshooting system issues, including sensor/wiring/electronic hardware, actuators, and embedded software at both application and Basic Softwar levels

You'll have... 
 

BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics or related degree; or foreign equivalency degree, or a combination of equivalent experience and education.  10 years experience implementing safety critical embedded controls software 3+ years experience implementing and validating motion control algorithms in embedded software (C/C++) for production applications 3+ years experience troubleshooting and debug skills and end-to-end control system issue resolution
 

Even better, you may have...
 

MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mechanical Engineering (with a focus on Dynamics/Controls) 20 years experience implementing safety critical embedded controls software Experience operating in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) team Proficient in Jira, GitHub, Jama, and Jenkins/GitHub Actions Expertise in EV/Hybrid propulsion control systems including Motor Controls, Thermal Management and/or Charging Experience implementing software in the AUTOSAR Classic platform

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

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? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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.

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What you'll do...
 

Develop and implement safety critical embedded controls software to control vehicle motion (propulsion, steering and/or braking) Analyze system design and specify sensor requirements needed to fulfill control system requirements Optimize control system design given actuator capabilities Include Functional Safety and Failure Mode Avoidance considerations in the system design Develop validation tests (unit level, sub-system level, system level) that can be automated and integrated into a CI/CD pipeline, analyze test results as needed Support development of, and execution to, a workplan to deliver controls software in support of target Vehicle Programs, and deliver project through production 'Troubleshoot system issues, including sensor/wiring/electronic hardware, actuators, and embedded software at both application and Basic Software (I/O Drivers, Communication Stack, Cybersecurity implementation, etc.) levels