ADAS Surround View Camera Feature Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) team! Utilizing Design Thinking and User Experience methods, you will work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We are seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to such advancements as autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies and more! 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: We bring engineering ideas to life. In ADAS, we make driving more exciting, enjoyable, and safe. Ford's ADAS team designs and develops Camera Visualization, BlueCruise, Autonomous Emergency Braking, Cross Traffic Alert, and Pro Trailer Backup and Hitch Assist. We are seeking a professional who can contribute to our efforts with experience and passion in the development of camera visualization features, functions, sensors, ECUs, models, and software. It will likely also involve other elements of the process because we are more interested in adding high quality people to the team than trying to squeeze engineers into a specific role.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 3+ years of work experience with designing and developing Camera hardware systems or the software systems that deliver human vision camera features.
• 2+ years of experience developing features in the ADAS domain using radars, cameras, LIDAR, ultrasonic sensors and/or other related vehicle systems (e.g. body, electrical, chassis, powertrain, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience in system engineering including experience with the System V, Functional decomposition, design analysis, Concept, Logical and technology level requirements development, System integration and FMA analysis.
• Strong leadership skills with a passion for quality and customer happiness
• Excellent communication, teamwork, interpersonal and project management skills
• Ability to work well independently and take initiative.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
• Experience in authoring new system requirements/specifications
• Experience with SysML / MagicDraw
• Understanding of embedded hardware and software design
• Experience with Functional Safety (ISO26262) and Failure Mode Avoidance
• Experience with model based design (e.g. Matlab,Simulink, Stateflow, state machine development, etc.)
• Verification proficiency (e.g. design verification methods, data acquisition/analysis, hardware-in-the-loop, etc.)
• Experience Programing in C, C++ or equivalent programing language
• Knowledge of virtual validation methods (e.g. HIL,MIL, SIL, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Act as the Authority of Ford's end-to-end design, implementation, and validation of camera-based human-visualization Features including Rear View Camera (FMVSS111), Birdseye 360 and numerous other view experiences on both interior displays as well as off-board devices possible through 360 surround view cameras, including: Off-Road Views, Pro Trailer Views, Offboard Video Streaming, Onboard Video Recording, and more
• Collaborate with Product Design and Digital Design teams to define the roadmap and scope of Ford's Camera Experience Features, including the look and feel we want our customers to experience
• Engage with Automotive Safety Office (ASO) and Office of the General Counsel (OGC) to ensure Ford's solutions comply with legal and regulatory requirements, including FMVSS111
• Drive the decomposition of the Features and the allocation and orchestration of functionality across Ford's vehicle domains, including Motion Control, Power Supply, Camera Systems, Cloud Connectivity, and In-Vehicle Infotainment.
• Ensure the robustness of our camera features by leading the development of requirements, Boundary diagrams, design analysis, Failure Mode Avoidance, robustness fields and test procedures.
• Work with Hardware, platform, Software and Test teams to ensure Feature requirements are cascaded, aligned, and accepted.
• Drive continuous improvement in test coverage and test techniques to proactively find and resolve technical issues early in the product development cycle, including simulation and vehicle prototypes
• Work with Functional Safety engineers to develop and refine feature functional safety requirements, item definition, hazard analysis/risk assessment and functional safety concept incompliance with ISO-26262/Ford Functional Safety process.
• Ensure new features seamlessly integrate with existing features to provide a superb customer experience
• Support development of Design validation methods to ensure feature robustness across all vehicles environmental conditions and customer usage
• Work with the Hardware in the Loop (HIL) and virtual validation teams to establish procedures to reduce dependence on vehicle-level testing.
• Help execute real-world evaluation of ADAS features via vehicle/HIL/virtual testing and identify system problems/issues
• Lead investigations of potential issues through problem solving analyses such as 8Ds and 5-Whys including facilitation of experts across the Ford enterprise and present findings and propose solutions to enterprise leadership
• Utilize Connected Vehicle data to analyze and assess the ‘real-time' performance of the Features in our customers' vehicles to identify robustness and reliability improvement opportunities and drive solutions

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees