Product Development Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

1d • $68,300 - $192,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!
In this position...
You will be integral to the physical validation of Software/Hardware functionality at critical program milestones, ensuring robust system performance. This role involves driving pre-test readiness, actively troubleshooting Design Verification (DV) issues, and meticulously documenting requirement assessments. You will coordinate the design and build of electrical breadboards, manage ECU software configurations, and oversee testing to ensure timely delivery of Global Product Development System (GPDS) gateways and milestones. We are seeking a self-motivated individual with a passion for continuous improvement, dedicated to developing new best practices and executing validation testing for every new software/hardware release to achieve DV efficiency and quality objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (BSEE) in Electrical Engineering or a related field of study.
• 1+ years of experience in vehicle and breadboard electrical feature validation.
• 1+ years of experience with CANalyzer, VehicleSpy, and python scripting.
• 1+ years of experience with JIRA Issue tracking tools

Nice To Haves

• Master's (MSEE) in Electrical Engineering or a related field of study.
• Experience in Electrical systems design and/or electrical/functional testing with a solid working knowledge of electrical & software components and wire harnesses.
• Experience in program management ensuring that components and systems are developed according to official product development systems.
• Strong communication skills and proficiency in utilizing MS Office products (Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project) and SharePoint sites.
• Experience with MATLAB and Simulink for simulation.
• Experience with VISION ATI, Vehicle Spy, Wireshark.
• Capable of using related Ford systems including Advanced Vehicle Bill of Material (AVBOM), ELMS, FEDE, Global Integrator, Teamcenter, 3DX, VSEM, and GPDS program timing.
• High energy, self-starter with the ability and desire to take responsibility and deliver results with minimal supervision.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Good collaboration skills, ability to work with multiple people and manage a variety of projects simultaneously with solid organizational skills.
• Ability and courage to effectively communicate key issues and recommendations to management.

Responsibilities

• Determine program content that impacts electrical DV by using documented program detail as well as communication with D&R and program management.
• Identify New Technology, test time required and Complexity Drivers. Generate test plan analysis to determine number of BB’s required to complete testing by milestone.
• Establish robust but efficient electrical DV plans and set up electronic Design Verification System, JIRA, Testrail and FEDE, according to those DV plans.
• Create pre-test documentation - currently Enhanced Laboratory Management System (ELMS).
• Ensure proper test direction for DV, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) & Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), and as needed, development and Production Validation (PV).
• Manage the software implementation on BBs, communicate the DV Plan through use of D&V Chart, identify and establish root cause for issues, identifying common cause and driving for robust solutions in software code. Communicating issues utilizing JIRA and D&V Chart. Communicate Feature and System functionality with the Build team to ensure a quality build.
• Communicate feature testing status in management meetings to ensure a successful prototype drivable unit build event.
• Manage software implementation on BBs to ensure robust testing. Maintain software levels on BBs to ensure disciplined delivery of capability for requesting community, as directed by the Systems team.
• Resolve and/or elevate all issues that jeopardize program sign-off milestones.
• Understand and suggest revisions to procedures and requirements to assess comply/non-comply for areas of responsibility.
• Assess sign-off requirements for electrical DV on time and with appropriate data in appropriate test data repository.
• Support both certification and development testing for type approval and homologation, develop test documentation and support witness testing.
• Work with Core Engineering and Test Operations to correlate requirements to customer needs, improve test method accuracy and efficiency, and support analytical tool development.
• Schedule and execute test cases of the electrical feature requirements specified in JAMA.
• Develop, maintain and update simulator hardware and software model test systems for automotive validation testing. Identify opportunities to automate testing.

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: Mid Level