Interaction Engineer

Ford • Allen Park, MI

1d • $138,486 - $227,764 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation. Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford Product Development team. Utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods, you’ll work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We’re seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to such advancements as autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or a related field and 5 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• 5 years of experience with developing and deploying software for automotive HMI applications running on Linux OS, QNX, or Android Automotive OS, using HMI frameworks including QT, Android Automotive Platform, or similar UI application framework.
• 2 years of experience with programming and managing automotive HMI software projects by coordinating UX design and engineering deliverables, ensuring timely execution and strategic alignment.
• 2 years of experience with designing and managing UX to engineering lifecycle through the following phases: design freeze, artifact hand-offs, and implementation reviews.
• 2 years of experience with translating regulatory requirements for an automotive HMI into software requirements and functional definition.
• 2 years of experience with analyzing and decomposing HMI UX designs as inputs into software design and implementation feasibility.
• 2 years of experience with building, assigning, and tracking task dependency hierarchies for HMI software projects using Jira.
• 1 year of experience with creating executive level program reports using Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Leveraging a deep understanding of user experience principles and user needs to communicate cross-functionally, translating between UX design, business, technical, and project management domains and teams to ensure alignment of expectations and tasks.
• Breaking down UX designs into Jira epic-task hierarchies, and prioritizing, allocating, and tracking those tasks to completion.
• Identifying meaningful functional milestones and driving cross-functional alignment to those milestones.
• Tracking and communicating project status and risks through cross-team alignment meetings, execution level status reports, and dashboards built in Jira and Confluence.
• Ensuring that HMI development is aligned to the broader strategic program milestones.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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: Senior