Propulsion Domain Hardware Sub-System Engineer

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

7d • 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. In this position, you will be responsible for the development of optimized sensor subsystem functionality focused on improved sensor accuracy and consistency to provide functional and emissions compliance on next generation systems. You will lead robustness studies into subsystem capability to meet necessary functional requirements for all of vehicle fleet over full useful life of the vehicles. You will support the Calibration technical community in reviewing future sensor implementation and ensuring proper function. You will develop requirements for development hardware to interface with new sensors, implement overall instrumentation for special test vehicles and define special monitoring on vehicles with continuous flight recorders. You will develop special testing HW based on microprocessor and development board designs including the associated software. You will lead the Feature Expert List (FEL) for sensor calibration values used in production vehicles. This role involves Gasoline LEV4 exhaust sensor subsystem development, focusing on life aging and accuracy improvements on sensors and subsystems. You will lead studies of improved exhaust system designs for optimal emissions and sensor availability, support LIN based coolant level sensors, and lead the oil level subsystem verification process. You will also benchmark competitors in key system attributes related to exhaust sensors, support sensor level problem solving investigation on pre-production and production vehicles, and lead system level robustness documentation on exhaust sensors with core design and release engineers. Detailed experience in FMEA, P-diagram and validation testing is preferred.

Requirements

• Experience and capability to work with various data acquisition tools such as Oscilloscopes, CAN interfaces, Calibration tool interfaces and custom microprocessors.
• Experience and expertise in post processing data in Matlab or equivalent tools.
• BS Engineering degree required: Electrical engineering with strong mechanical understanding or Mechanical engineering background with strong electrical understanding is preferred.
• Experience with microprocessor software and software development.
• Must be able to manage multiple concurrent assignments with proper prioritization.
• Position is a combination of hands-on dyno and vehicle testing combined with detailed analytical analysis of the gathered data.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills are necessary to be successful in this position.

Nice To Haves

• Detailed experience in FMEA, P-diagram and validation testing is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Development of optimized sensor subsystem functionality focused on improved sensor accuracy and consistency to provide functional and emissions compliance on next generation systems.
• Lead robustness studies into subsystem capability to meet necessary functional requirements for all of vehicle fleet over full useful life of the vehicles.
• Support Calibration technical community in reviewing future sensor implementation and ensuring proper function.
• Develop requirements for development hardware to interface with new sensors.
• Implement overall instrumentation for special test vehicles and define special monitoring on vehicles with continuous flight recorders.
• Develop special testing HW based on microprocessor and development board designs including the associated software.
• Lead Feature Expert List (FEL) for sensor calibration values used in production vehicles.
• Gasoline LEV4 exhaust sensor subsystem development ---focusing on life aging and accuracy improvements on sensors and subsystems.
• Lead studies of improved exhaust system designs for optimal emissions and sensor availability.
• Support LIN based coolant level sensors.
• Lead oil level subsystem verification process.
• Support SENT sensor subsystem verification.
• Benchmark competitors in key system attributes related to exhaust sensors.
• Support sensor level problem solving investigation on pre-production and production vehicles.
• Lead system level robustness documentation on exhaust sensors with core design and release engineers.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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