DescriptionAt Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.
Ford has led the automotive industry for over a century, and Ford Model e is poised to lead the electric vehicle market through innovative vehicles and digital features that power them. We are building a world-class software and cloud service engineering team and are excited to grow our Technical Program Management capability.
Responsibilities• Manage standardization of rich data logged and stored during an event.
• Manage implementation strategy across feature, platform and hardware systems via new demand process.
• Work with multiple stakeholders to efficiently manage/leverage offboarding technologies and categorization of diagnostic data for root cause analysis.
• Manage allocation of diagnostic manager app across electronic modules and subsystems to meet cost, quality, and feature performance targets.
• Ensure diagnostic backlog prioritization aligns with quality data and target levels.
• Manage bench and vehicle level validation and sign-off processes.
• Comply with Regulations, NHTSA requirements.
• Lead trade-off discussions with cross-functional teams
• Ensure design consistency across different feature development teams.
• Communicate systems, diagnostic issues and resolutions in a clear and concise manner.
• Champion automation of software and system quality measures at all stages – leveraging tools and techniques like BDD, Jira, TestRail, etc.
• Work with product managers/feature owner to identify feature roadmap to define key metrics to track success of features, which would include customer acquisition, activation, retention, and satisfaction, and product quality
• Champion data literacy within the organization and drive adoption rates
• Establish data roadmap for feature teams, plan for iterative improvement, to help the team achieve their vision and mission
• Work with software architects and other stake holders to identify key data collection methodology and opportunities
• Define requirements for each feature, work with FSE team and other key stakeholders to release the requirements
• Define the high-level design for data instrumentation, capture, retention and visualization, and champion the process as the technical expert for data.
• Cascade the requirements down to cross functional software teams, ensure prioritization and approval for implementation
• Translate requirements of large data initiatives into smaller actionable items, work closely with software scrum teams to time implementation
• Validate data collected, build dashboards, ensure data accuracy, use SQL, Python/R to create visualizations for validations
• Drive visualizations using collected data, by working with visualization teams, establish clear and well-defined dashboards
QualificationsRequired Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or related degree
• 3+ years of experience with vehicle electrical systems and/or highly distributed Feature/System development.
• Deep Knowledge and experience creating requirements based on the Gherkin Syntax
• Functional knowledge of data collection platform (DCP), Cloud technology and Cloud Architecture
• Functional Knowledge of Mobile technology and cellular telecommunication
• In-depth knowledge of FNV4 architecture and Autosar standard
• Deep knowledge of cloud cybersecurity (cryptology, RSA, ECDH, etc.)
• Experience in development and application of DFMEA methodologies in avoiding failure modes and driving feature robustness.
• Experience in bench and vehicle level testing, analyzing issues, identify root causes and define solution.
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and written, with the ability to quickly understand and articulate complex issues.
• Emotional resilience to negotiate cross functional trade-offs.
Preferred Qualifications
• Master’s degree in electrical engineering or software Engineering
• 5+ years of related experience in an automotive engineering role
• 2 to 5 years of professional experience as a software developer (Python, C, C++, JAVA)
• 2 to 5 years' experience working in an Agile project environment
• 2 to 5 years' experience with CI/CD tools
• In-depth knowledge of Quality Documents (DFMEA, LFMA, and boundary diagrams)
• Functional knowledge diagnostic methods, data capture, data storage, cloud architecture, over the air data transfer, etc.
• Electrical Systems Engineering experience including understanding of systems engineering V model
• Electrical D&R experience
• Feature Systems and diagnostic Development experience
• Strong Experience with Problem-solving tools to efficiently identify root causes and resolve problems using structured techniques.
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 a detailed look at our benefits, click here:
https://fordcareers.co/LL6HTHD
This position is a leadership level 6.
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.
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