Embedded Platform Integration Engineer

Ford • Allen Park, MI

1d • $74,300 - $166,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Embedded Platform Integration Engineer will join Ford’s Body Controls team in Allen Park, Michigan, to design and develop embedded software in the Body domain. The team creates Body Control Modules that integrate with existing architectures and next-generation vehicle systems as part of Ford’s Product Creation and Industrialization organization.

The role includes bringing up MCU platforms; configuring and validating MCAL drivers, AUTOSAR BSW, and operating systems; developing embedded C software; and integrating CAN/LIN communication and diagnostic descriptions. The engineer will implement and validate low-power and sleep/wake behavior, maintain a translation layer between non-AUTOSAR C applications and ECU middleware, and integrate application components with platform middleware.

Additional work includes optimizing platform performance, resolving issues across the MCU, BSW, OS, middleware, and applications, and maintaining configuration, interface, build, and validation documentation to support repeatable builds and validated software releases. The position is hybrid and requires onsite work four or more days per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• At least 3 years of embedded software experience.
• At least 2 years of programming experience in C/C++ or Python.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and the ability to write highly portable, platform-agnostic code.
• Experience with low-level interfaces such as I2C, SPI, ICU, PWM, GPT, and CAN.
• At least 1 year of experience developing proof-of-concept applications for automotive ECUs.
• At least 1 year of experience working in an agile environment.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience developing software for automotive control units.
• Experience with AUTOSAR methodology and workflows.
• Hands-on experience in AUTOSAR software development or integration projects.
• Familiarity with RTE configuration activities.
• Hands-on experience with an AUTOSAR authoring tool.
• Embedded software development experience on the Linux platform.
• Software simulation experience using hardware models.
• Strong embedded debugging skills.
• Self-reliance, approachability, and good communication skills.
• Knowledge of tools used for embedded program development.
• Knowledge of safety systems and ISO 26262, including ASIL A-D.

Responsibilities

• Bring up MCU platforms, including clock configuration, pin mapping, memory initialization, interrupts, and peripherals.
• Configure and validate MCAL drivers and resolve hardware-software integration issues.
• Design, develop, and debug embedded C software for low-level and platform components, maintaining clear interfaces among drivers, middleware, and application software.
• Configure, integrate, and validate the AUTOSAR BSW baseline and operating system, including task scheduling, interrupt handling, initialization sequences, and platform startup behavior.
• Integrate CAN DBC and LIN LDF communication descriptions into platform configuration, including drivers, communication stacks, signal mapping, message routing, and middleware interfaces.
• Integrate .cdd and .mdx diagnostic description files and verify that service definitions, identifiers, data formats, and access conditions match the implemented software.
• Implement and validate power-state transitions, sleep-entry conditions, wake-up sources, and restoration of platform services; verify sleep current, wake-up timing, and repeated sleep/wake behavior.
• Coordinate ECU and BSW state-management configuration related to low-power behavior.
• Develop and maintain a translation layer connecting non-AUTOSAR C applications to ECU middleware, including data conversion, signal mapping, API adaptation, and error reporting.
• Integrate application components with platform middleware and validate interface compatibility, initialization order, scheduling, data exchange, and end-to-end behavior.
• Measure and optimize RAM usage, CPU load, task execution time, and startup time; review compiler, linker, and build settings while maintaining functional correctness and timing requirements.
• Debug issues across MCU drivers, BSW, OS, middleware, and applications, and track defects through closure.
• Maintain platform configurations, interface specifications, build instructions, and validation results; support repeatable builds and releases of validated platform software.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care.
• 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.
• Vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level