Software Test Engineer - IVI

Ford • Palo Alto, CA

8h • $118,700 - $198,500 • 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 in Computer Science or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Experience creating test plans for code changes, including smoke test, targeted regression, and testing high-risk areas such as state changes, platform upgrades, and power cycles.
• Ability to apply a white-box testing mindset, designing tests that leverage knowledge of internal components (services, APIs, middleware) rather than relying solely on “black box” validation.
• Experience validating complex "system-of-systems" products, such as consumer electronics, mobile devices, or robotics; this background is highly relevant and not limited to automotive.
• Capability to triage issues and write bug reports with analysis that developers can act on immediately, including reproduction steps, clear expected vs. actual behavior, and precise evidence like timestamps and key log excerpts.
• Hands-on hardware/software integration experience, including bench bring-up, flashing, and end-to-end feature validation across HW/SW boundaries.
• Working knowledge of Linux (CLI, logs/journalctl, networking, permissions, scripting) for debugging, automation, and test execution.
• Experience with Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing, including setup/configuration, signal simulation, test execution, and result analysis.
• Must be onsite in Palo Alto.

Nice To Haves

• Python automation skills (strong plus): building test utilities, log parsing/triage scripts.

Responsibilities

• Validate the functionality and stability of platform software, multimedia, and connectivity features for infotainment software.
• Perform deep-dive troubleshooting on test failures, utilizing system logs and tools to isolate the root cause before reporting.
• Manage and maintain the test bench environment, ensuring software and hardware are correctly set up for 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