DAT Feature and Software Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

2d • $99,600 - $166,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford’s Tools & Calibration team is seeking an AUTOSAR Tools & Calibration Automation Developer to develop, integrate, and maintain automation tooling that supports automotive software delivery, interface management, and calibration validation. The role focuses on data-driven validation tools that ensure consistency and traceability across software requirements, interfaces, signals, and calibrations. The position works with engineering teams to replace error-prone manual validation with scripted checks, improve release readiness, and prevent integration defects. It also supports requirements, interface, and test case management by developing tools that synchronize engineering data across systems and streamline software delivery workflows.

The position is hybrid and requires onsite work four or more days per week. Ford offers a salary range of $99,600–$166,600, with final salary determined based on the candidate’s skills and experience, job scope, responsibility, and market value. Visa sponsorship is available.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 4 years of experience in software development, engineering automation, tools development, or a related role.
• Hands-on experience developing automation scripts and tools using Python or an equivalent programming language.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle processes, requirements management, and software integration.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across diverse engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AUTOSAR Classic Platform, software component interfaces, ports, and signal mappings.
• Familiarity with calibration concepts, A2L/ASAP2 files, calibration parameters, memory mapping, and tunability.
• Experience with automotive calibration tools such as ETAS INCA or Vector CANape.
• Experience validating consistency across software requirements, signals, interfaces, calibrations, and test cases.
• Familiarity with requirements management and test management tools such as JAMA, IBM DOORS, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience integrating engineering tools and automating data exchange across APIs, databases, and file-based systems.
• Experience developing automated checks for engineering artifacts such as ARXML, A2L, ELF, MAP, and HEX files.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and continuous integration practices.
• Experience with automotive software delivery, release engineering, and supplier integration workflows.
• Knowledge of ASPICE, configuration management, and automotive software development processes.
• Experience with data traceability, change impact analysis, and automated reporting.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automation tools and scripts to validate consistency and traceability across software requirements, interfaces, signals, and calibrations.
• Develop automated validation checks to replace manual reviews of engineering artifacts and identify inconsistencies early in the software development lifecycle.
• Support AUTOSAR interface management, including validation of ARXML files, interface definitions, ports, data types, and signal mappings.
• Develop and maintain tools to validate calibration definitions, parameter accessibility, tunability, and consistency across software deliverables.
• Perform requirements and test case management through traceability checks across engineering systems, and develop tools to automate the process.
• Support release engineering by validating software delivery artifacts and identifying issues that could affect integration, calibration, and verification and validation.
• Implement automated reporting, diagnostics, and error handling to improve visibility into validation results and accelerate issue resolution.
• Reduce duplicated manual effort and technical debt by standardizing validation processes and improving automation across the Tools & Calibration ecosystem.

Benefits

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