HIL Supervisor

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science or similar field
• 8+ Years of experience in automotive software development or validations
• 8+ Years of experience in software development life cycle -Agile/SaFe process
• 8+ Years of experience in complex automotive embedded software testing
• 5+ Years of experience in leading automotive projects or team lead
• 5+ Years of experience in test automation development for embedded projects
• 5+ Years of experience utilizing software testing or quality assurance methodologies
• 5+ Years of experience in vehicle testing and system engineering practices
• 2+ Years of experience in ADAS feature testing
• 2+ Years of experience in distributed feature testing experience

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Engineering or related field
• Experience in development and execution of functional test procedures within a software or vehicle testing organization
• Experience in bench testing of distributed electrical systems (Electrical System Engineering) including bench functional integration, test execution, measuring and instrumentation, incident reporting and root cause analysis
• Experience in electrical schematics for vehicle components and systems and electrical architectures of distributed systems
• Experience with development and verification of embedded software using hardware in loop equipment and software (dSpace, National Instruments)
• Experience with development and verification of embedded software
• Experience in Ford Diagnostics Engineering tools and software downloads
• Experience in implementing software configuration management
• Experience in software development with compiled and interpreted languages including C++, Python, visual basic and Matlab and their corresponding integrated development environments (IDEs). MS Visual Studio, Simulink
• Experience in embedded controller networks (CAN, LIN) and the use of ECU diagnostic and network communication tools to verify and troubleshoot distributed vehicle systems (CANoe, CANalyzer)

Responsibilities

• Managing and leading an agile design verification team of test engineers to validate software features integration and system level functional & performance systems end-to-end.
• Accountable for performance and results of the Verification and Validation team.
• Manages the execution of software tests and automation scripts, adhering to industry best practices to identify and resolve defects efficiently.
• Focuses on continuous optimization of testing processes to improve efficiency and reduce time-to-market for software releases.
• Leads a team to execute a comprehensive software testing strategy aligned with organizational goals.
• Manage incident triage processes.
• Contribute to the development, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and implement an effective automation strategy.
• Design verification and sign-off of vehicle application specific software, systems, and features as per cycle plan.
• Create a highly collaborative and motivated team environment, to enable a best in-class testing and management, that can be used for software and features validations.
• Be the single point of contact for software and features testing at system level.
• Work with external and internal teams to identify, procure, and use equipment and tools for testing activities with increased efficiency.
• Create a complex system level close loop testing methods and test solutions.
• Adopt and deploy Mode e software tool chains, process and methods to HIL organization.
• Work closely with Software Development Engineers and Feature System Engineers to develop robust and customer centric test methods.
• Lead test engineers, technicians, and drivers; to create and update test cases, support test case automation, execute test sequences for each software maturity release cadence, and drive JIRA/5D/AIM Triage issues to closure – reDV regression.
• Reports and presents program validation status to Directors, Chief Engineers, and Managers; on a daily basis, presenting plans to cover vehicle program priorities and support issue resolution.
• Coordinate tests and manage communications with users and clients, ensuring there is one channel of communication and a single point of contact.
• Ensures Test setup is updated and in optimal conditions for evaluations and test at all times.
• Drive Software testing integrity and requirement & test results traceability.
• Drive DV Efficiency efforts to identify opportunities to move testing from the Road to the Lab to Virtual.
• Drive and continue to modernize and disrupt traditional fleet validation testing processes, tools, and methods.
• Drives Feature signoff with proper documentation of initial/final software states, as well as software and resources used for testing.
• Hire and recruit talent, mentor and manage training and career development of team members.
• Elevate team competency and drive innovative System Engineering test methodology.
• Drive performance objectives and conduct people cycle performance reviews.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• 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
• A generous schedule of 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: Manager