Staff Systems Integration Engineer - IVI Software

Ford • Palo Alto, CA

13h • $150,200 - $283,500 • 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 degree or better in software engineering, computer science or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience integrating and testing complex software systems
• A strong grasp of software testing methodologies, different types of testing, and quality assurance processes.
• Experience working with version control systems, like Git.
• Familiarity with the concepts and tools used in CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GitLab CI
• A track record of successfully debugging complex software and system problems.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and a sharp eye for detail.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills – you can clearly explain technical concepts and work effectively across teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience testing automotive infotainment systems or other complex embedded systems.
• Experience with Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing or testing directly on physical automotive hardware or vehicles.
• Experience working with specific infotainment operating systems (like Android Automotive, Linux) or graphical user interface toolkits.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end integration, validation, and release readiness for IVI software across embedded platforms, middleware, multimedia, connectivity, and customer-facing applications.
• Support vehicle integration and powermoding efforts by increasing test coverage and integration support across vehicle programs.
• Partner with system engineers and development teams to integrate and validate assigned IVI features, including power-state transitions, sleep-wake behavior, recovery scenarios, and other system-level functionality.
• Develop and maintain automated test coverage for owned features, enabling repeatable validation across bench and vehicle environments.
• Design, build, and maintain test benches, vehicle instrumentation, diagnostics, logging tools, and supporting test infrastructure.
• Diagnose complex issues across software, hardware, ECUs, vehicle networks, and power states; perform root-cause analysis and work cross-functionally to drive resolution.

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: Senior