Product Development Engineer

Product Development Engineer

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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.

For this role the candidate will support design, documentation, implementation, and validation of embedded hardware solutions used by multiple teams both internal and external to Ford and will be involved in the launch of production embedded software solutions being developed for current and future Ford vehicle programs. The candidate will be a key contributor to the development of embedded software and hardware that is deployed in various L2 and L3 HIL test system and hardware testing environments. Current and future project work will be used in support of ongoing development and testing of the next generation infotainment systems, embedded modem, vehicle cloud connectivity, mobile app development, underbody and powertrain systems and other vehicle ECU testing for Ford vehicles. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned embedded engineer with a demonstrated ability to solution creative and innovative hardware and software solutions, and to deliver elegant solutions with exceptional quality. The ability to lead, collaborate and mentor a motivated and diversely skilled team will be welcome.

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer science, or related Foreign equivalency degree
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with C/C++ (e.g., OOP, data types, memory management, peripheral device drivers, pointers, structures, etc.).
• 5+ years of experience in developing/contribution to the Linux kernel, maintaining, and optimizing code for embedded Linux kernel and application targets.
• 5+ years of experience with a deep knowledge developing and debugging embedded targets and/or ARM based SOC architecture with embedded Linux OS.
• 5+ years of experience in building binaries from source code and deploying it in various environment and resolving dependencies.
Master’s degree in electrical engineering or computer science, or a related field

Even better, you may have...

• Experienced software developer with ability to develop & debug complex multithreaded applications in C/C++.
• Well versed with development & deployment of Multimedia frameworks for embedded Linux distributions.
• Working knowledge in audio and video streaming applications using WebRTC and familiarity with codecs such as H.264/ H.265/VP8.
• Experience in unit level and system level testing.
• Hands on experience with Linux device drivers and device trees & ALSA & V4L subsystems.
• Knowledge with video frameworks such as egl, OpenGL, Vulkan, GBM.
• Experience with Agile Scrum development methodologies with common workflow tools (e.g., Confluence, GIT, Jira, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, TestRail).
Experience with creating supporting documentation (e.g., design documents, architecture diagrams, test procedures, reports).

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.
  

For more information on salary and benefits, click here:
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This position is a range of salary grades 6-8 .

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #LI-JS1

What you'll do. ..

• Design, code, and integrate software for an embedded Linux target, help improve and maintain existing software components.
• Lead customization deployment and maintenance of Linux applications and system services on existing & next generation systems.
• Author software components and ensure that they meet functional and quality requirements.
• Own all aspects of the software development lifecycle and apply data analytics to provide qualitative and quantitative improvements.
• Participate in reviews & discussions for new features, lead software development and collaborate with hardware/software team and stakeholders.
• Assist in development of system architectures and platforms for next generation hardware/software in vehicle infotainment test solutions.
• Help triage customer design or usability issues and mentor junior team members.