We bring engineering ideas to life. In Product Development, we make driving more exciting, enjoyable and sustainable. Ford’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) team designs and develops hardware and functional models that provide Best-in-Class behavior for features like Adaptive Cruise Control, Automatic Emergency Braking, Cross Traffic Alert, Lane Centering Assist, BlueCruise, and 360 Camera Systems. We are seeking seasoned professionals who can contribute to our efforts with experience in the development of sensors, ECUs, models, and software. This position focuses on leading and supporting the engineering development for our BlueCruise features.
What you'll do...
- Develop and mature system and subsystem level design, interfaces, and specifications to ensure production feature delivery across the entire range of Ford Motor Company vehicle offerings, across the globe.
- Lead the development and refinement of In-Vehicle Software and their respective Implementation Requirements for the BlueCruise feature set.
- Support development and refinement of use cases and functional level requirements & targets for our next-generation BlueCruise features.
- Contribute towards upgrades and enhancements to our BlueCruise features, by working closely with feature owners with modeling changes, regression testing, test vector support, data review, issue identification and supplier interaction.
- Support replay and bench testing of algorithms to assess & improve performance of BlueCruise features, while conducting failure mode avoidance assessments.
- Support feature model delivery to meet software delivery & program timing.
- Support development and refinement of functional safety requirements, item definition, hazard analysis & risk assessment, and functional safety concept in compliance with ISO-26262 / Ford Functional Safety process for BlueCruise features.
- Ensure system design, functional safety, and other deliverables allow for seamless integration with existing features and provide a thrilling user experience.
- Manage feature / functional development timing by suppliers.
- Support the development and refinement of design validation methods for ensuring proper feature-level performance across a variety of environmental and cross-carline noise factors.
- Support sign-off of feature level performance, particularly first vehicle line application.
- Support the development of data analysis techniques and methods from data generated by both track and real-world validation methods to ensure feature achieves the desired specifications.
- Closely coordinate with product, business and other engineering teams to develop new capabilities on top of the existing set of BlueCruise features.
- Support the planning and execution of real-world evaluations to identify system problems and issues.
- Utilize AI tools and Agents for evaluation, developments and design process, while checking the results from an AI Tool.
