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Ford Motor

Senior Staff Embedded Platform Engineer

Ford Motor, Long Beach, California, us, 90899

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Overview We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

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.

This position is a leadership level 5.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position. Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

Onsite work of up to three days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location. #LI-Hybrid

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Responsibilities

Specify requirements, design, implement, and test both bare metal and RTOS low-level software for creating a scalable platform.

Develop multicore, time / safety critical software architectures.

Work with/resolve ambiguity in requirements/specifications/designs.

Create elegant, efficient real-time software components and interfaces.

Develop software component testing methodologies and implementations to ensure maturity/stability/release readiness.

Work with hardware and debuggers at a bench and HIL level to verify software operation.

Define system-level power / compute / communication requirements and implement solutions that allow different applications to achieve different combinations of configurations.

Profile power / CPU / bus usage and identify opportunities for optimization on the submodule as well as system level.

Develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions, including low power modes.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

8+ years of relevant experience in embedded software development using C

Experience with Automotive MCU’s from NXP, TI, STM

Experience with RTOS’s such as u-velOSity, FreeRTOS, safeRTOS

Experience with bare metal and RTOS software development including board bring-up

Experience with JIRA and Confluence

Experience with git

Experience with build systems such as make and bazel

Experience with scripting languages such as python or bash

Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including circuit analysis and design

Excellent communication skills

Even better, you may have...

Experience in driver development and RTOS integration

Experience with fundamental hardware components on PCB and their analysis tools

Experience with ISO26262 development

Experience with Automotive technologies such as CAN, LIN, UDS, DoIP

Experience with Automotive testing tools such as Vector Canoe

Knowledge of MISRA

Knowledge of commercial compilers and embedded debugging tools such as GHS and Keil

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