Feature Systems Engineer - Partner Programs

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

2d • $86,600 - $166,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Feature Systems Engineer serves as Ford’s technical authority for connected vehicle features and acts as the system owner for connectivity features and cloud-integrated services. The role defines requirements, governs cloud-to-vehicle interfaces, ensures supplier implementation alignment, and validates compliance with Ford architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, and customer experience expectations. It bridges product requirements, vehicle engineering, cloud services, privacy compliance, provisioning, telematics, fleet services, OTA updates, and supplier integration activities.

The engineer establishes Ford-defined behavior and interfaces while ensuring supplier implementations meet Ford standards and customer experience requirements. The position defines connected vehicle requirements and architecture; governs supplier integration, cloud and backend services, customer authorization and onboarding, privacy and consent, OTA deployment and software versioning, manufacturing provisioning, connected-feature behavior, and fleet telematics services. It also verifies supplier implementations and validates signal mappings, telemetry, status reporting, cloud integrations, and compliance requirements.

The position is hybrid and requires onsite work four or more days per week. Salary grade 7 to 8, with a stated salary range of $86,600–$166,200. Visa sponsorship is not available. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• At least 5 years of systems engineering experience, including experience in telematics or a cloud-connected product program.
• At least 5 years of experience supporting complex product development or service launches, integrations, or validation cycles, coordinating across internal organizations and external suppliers to resolve integration issues or document their disposition.
• At least 5 years of experience defining or reviewing connected-product or service architecture, including system interfaces and architecture deliverables such as interface specifications, sequence diagrams, or data-flow diagrams.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility verification is required at hire.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a relevant engineering or technical field.
• Experience supporting an OEM or vehicle program through integration and launch, coordinating vehicle, cloud/backend, and supplier teams; managing integration issues through resolution or formal disposition; and contributing to release-readiness evidence or post-launch issue resolution.

Responsibilities

• Define connected vehicle technical, security, privacy, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Own Ford cloud interface definitions and connectivity architecture requirements.
• Define Ford Well-Known Signals, event models, signal mappings, enumerations, units, and expected vehicle behavior.
• Maintain requirements through change-control and legal-review processes.
• Communicate Ford feature expectations and technical requirements to suppliers.
• Drive closure of feature gaps between Ford and supplier implementations.
• Review supplier sequence diagrams, implementation proposals, and architectural responses.
• Ensure supplier solutions align with Ford architecture and interfaces.
• Define and govern Ford cloud integration requirements.
• Own customer authorization, account-linking, and VIN association workflows.
• Define backend activation and deactivation requirements for connected services.
• Govern fleet-management, feature-package, and remote-command cloud services.
• Define customer authorization and onboarding experiences, connected-services disclaimers, setup wizard behavior, Ford UI/UX expectations for privacy and account management, and profile synchronization and user-management expectations.
• Define privacy controls, consent requirements, and data-sharing behaviors; ensure connected features comply with cybersecurity, privacy, and ePrivacy requirements; define regional compliance and regulatory reporting; and establish governance for fleet privacy and dual-consent frameworks.
• Define OTA/MMOTA deployment requirements and strategies; own software-update content, rollout policies, and version governance; and define cloud deployment requirements for emissions, battery-health, and regulatory data reporting.
• Define End-of-Line provisioning requirements and cloud registration processes; govern Sync key allocation and supplier-feed integration; and define cloud-triggered carrier provisioning and SIM activation processes.
• Define operational behavior for remote climate control, remote start, lock/unlock, vehicle health alerts, vehicle location, EV charging, panic alarms, and stolen vehicle services.
• Establish expected command responses and status-reporting requirements, and define fleet telematics signals, events, and command capabilities.
• Verify supplier implementation compliance with Ford-defined architectures and requirements.
• Validate signal mappings, telemetry behavior, status reporting, and cloud integrations, and confirm regulatory, privacy, and customer experience requirements are satisfied.
• Define fleet enrollment and feature-package management requirements; govern telematics payload definitions, data integrity requirements, and reporting expectations; and define fleet remote-command authorization and lifecycle management requirements.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• 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.
• Generous 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: Senior