Blue Cruise Core Integration Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

4d • $84,480 - $166,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) team develops hardware and functional models for driver-assistance features including Adaptive Cruise Control, Automatic Emergency Braking, Cross Traffic Alert, Lane Centering Assist, BlueCruise, and 360 Camera Systems. This role leads and supports engineering development for BlueCruise features, working with feature owners, development engineers, and suppliers to develop, integrate, validate, and improve feature performance. The position also uses AI tools and agents in evaluation, development, and design processes, with results checked by the engineer.

The position is hybrid and requires onsite work four or more days per week. It is salary grade 6–8, with a stated salary range of $84,480–$166,200. The final grade and salary depend on the candidate’s skills and experience, job scope, responsibility, and competitive market value. Visa sponsorship is available. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Two years of MATLAB/Simulink modeling experience in a professional or educational setting, in any combination.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, Controls, Computer, or Software Engineering.
• Experience developing and conducting laboratory and vehicle tests, collecting and analyzing data, especially in the automotive industry.
• Experience integrating hardware and software into vehicles, including equipment installation and software flashing.
• Experience with Adaptive Cruise Control, Blind Spot Systems, Lane Keeping, Lane Centering Systems, or similar ADAS features.
• Experience with computer vision and radar tracking of humans, vehicles, static roadway obstacles, or other typical road objects.
• Experience with computer vision detection and tracking of signs, lights, lanes, and other key artifacts.
• Understanding of embedded hardware and software design.
• Experience reviewing, categorizing, and analyzing field data to determine error states or failure modes.
• Experience developing, conducting, observing, and reporting statistically relevant experimentation or verification methods across the global population.
• Experience with Mobileye EyeQ technology.
• Experience with model-based design methods in Simulink for creating, developing, and enhancing current or new features.
• Understanding of Kalman filtering, vehicle dynamics, and linear and nonlinear control methods.
• Software engineering and algorithm development experience in any language, such as C, C++, Python, or MATLAB.
• Prior use of ML models or tools and ability to use AI/ML tools in development cycles.
• Ability to lead a small project, demonstrate ownership and initiative, and improve existing processes.

Responsibilities

• Support BlueCruise upgrades and enhancements through modeling changes, regression testing, test-vector support, data review, issue identification, and supplier interaction.
• Support development and refinement of use cases, functional-level requirements, and targets for next-generation BlueCruise features.
• Lead and support validation and verification of feature upgrades and enhancements, especially in-vehicle validation.
• Support replay and bench testing of algorithms to assess and improve feature performance, while conducting failure mode avoidance.
• Support feature-model delivery to meet software delivery and program timing.
• Ensure system design, functional safety, and other deliverables support seamless integration with existing features and a positive user experience.
• Lead and support development and refinement of design validation methods to assess feature-level performance across environmental and cross-carline noise factors.
• Support sign-off of feature-level performance, particularly for the first vehicle-line application.
• Support development of data-analysis techniques and methods for track and real-world validation data to confirm features meet specifications.
• Manage supplier timing for feature and functional development.
• Coordinate with feature development engineers to execute design verification plans and ensure feature-level performance.
• Support planning and execution of real-world evaluations to identify system problems and issues.
• Support and coordinate root-cause analysis with internal and external suppliers.
• Support integration and model configuration, and work with other software packages and production or in-situ hardware for pre-production feature-level verification.
• Use AI tools and agents for evaluation, development, and design processes, and check AI-generated results.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• 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