Blue Cruise Core Integration Engineer

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) team develops hardware and functional models for 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, with a focus on integration, modeling, verification, validation, and performance improvement. The engineer works with feature owners, development engineers, and suppliers to support feature requirements, software delivery, design verification, and customer-facing performance.

The position supports upgrades and enhancements to BlueCruise, including model changes, regression testing, test vectors, data review, issue identification, and supplier interaction. It also contributes to next-generation use cases and functional requirements and targets; in-vehicle, replay, and bench validation; analysis of track and real-world data; and root-cause investigation. The engineer supports model delivery and configuration, feature integration with production and in-situ hardware, supplier timing, design validation methods, and feature-level performance sign-off. AI tools and agents are used in evaluation, development, and design processes, with results checked by the engineer.

The role is hybrid and requires onsite work four or more days per week. Ford states that visa sponsorship is available and that candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The position is salary grade 6–8, with a stated salary range of $84,480–$166,200; final grade and salary depend on skills, experience, scope, responsibility, and market value.

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.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility will be verified at hire.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, Controls, Computer, or Software Engineering.
• Experience developing and conducting laboratory and vehicle tests, data collection, and analysis, 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 people, 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 on 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 a language such as C, C++, Python, or MATLAB.
• Prior use of machine-learning 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, particularly 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 enable integration with existing features and provide a positive user experience.
• Lead and support development and refinement of design-validation methods to assess feature 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 using data generated by track and real-world validation to confirm features meet specifications.
• Manage supplier feature and functional development timing.
• Coordinate with feature development engineers on design-verification plans to ensure proper 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, along 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 the results produced by AI tools.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup child care.
• 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