Ford Next is focused on rapidly incubating & launching new vehicle-adjacent businesses to create long-term value for the company beyond the wheel. Ford Next team members are flexible, with a startup mindset -- this is a group that thrives on moving quickly and growing through change.

You'll have... 

A bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field and 5 years of experience in the position offered or 5 years of experience developing multi-system distributed features for vehicles across multiple markets, platforms, and architectures. Also requires 5 years of experience: leading teams of feature system engineers or providing subject matter expertise to teams of feature system engineers through all stages of feature development, deployment, and testing; completing expected deliverables, signoffs, and management reviews as part of developing and launching vehicle product lines; and using Modelling tools for feature development and CANoe or CANalyzer for system testing. Requires 2 years of experience utilizing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and using JIRA in working with Software development teams in scoping, prioritizing, delivering, and testing Feature Systems. Also requires 1 year of experience defining SOME and IP and SoA Service interfaces for Platform Systems or Feature Applications. Position reports to Dearborn, MI office. Company offers flexible work from home schedule, but in-office work is required and individual must live within commuting distance of stated office. Experience may be, but need not be, acquired concurrently.

We are offering a salary of $141,086 to $243,338 per year.

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

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

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What you’ll be able to do: 

Vehicle Feature Solutions Manager positions offered by Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI. Lead FNV4 Technical engineering for Feature and System design for approximately 200 features within Systems Engineering organization, and provide Technical Scoping/Prioritization over multiple Program-Increments and Vehicle Programs. Establish and manage 3-month increments of feature design, development, and defects backlog across vehicle programs, working directly with stakeholders from Platform Systems, ECUs, Planning, and Testing organizations. Identify and resolve system(s), process, and technical roadblocks spanning on-time delivery with quality, via leading and conducting detailed Systems Engineering technical design reviews. Drive customer focused mindset into engineering by removing key execution barriers through evolution of team processes, instructional material, and quick-response paths for technical, tool, or process related escalations. Work closely with FNV4 Solution Group and TPM organization to continually improve our CI/CD pipeline, quality actions, data-collection, and subscription enablement. Conduct technical design review to go over and author/edit technology level design details of how these features should work over latest SOME/IP, High Processing Compute Center, and Zonal-ECU centric (FNV4) vehicle electrical architecture.