Vehicle Controls Platform Architect

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

6d • $147,077 - $192,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford Motor Company is hiring a Vehicle Controls Platform Architect for its Product Development team in Dearborn, Michigan. This hybrid position requires the employee to work both from home and at the Dearborn worksite and to live within a reasonable commuting distance. The role focuses on architecting, configuring, and optimizing the software platform underlying vehicle control systems, particularly powertrain modules.

The architect configures basic software (BSW) and AUTOSAR components, including diagnostics, watchdog, and non-volatile memory. The role involves debugging processor resets and software issues, distributing runnables across processor cores to improve performance, integrating third-party software components and supplier-built software, and analyzing vehicle and powertrain functional issues. The architect identifies root causes, validates corrective actions, and develops preventative measures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electronic Engineering, Electronic and Communications Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Seven years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• Seven years of experience developing embedded software using C or C++ in the automotive domain.
• Five years of experience using embedded software platforms and low-level device programming in the automotive domain to develop and integrate system-level functionalities.
• Three years of experience integrating BSW, SIP, and LLDs from suppliers into powertrain modules.
• Two years of experience designing and architecting low-level platform stacks for powertrain modules, including memory management, bootloaders, cybersecurity considerations, multicore/chrono optimization, and triaging platform-level resets.
• Two years of experience optimizing low-level stacks for functional safety, including MPU protection and chrono optimization of multicore processors with lockstep/functionally safe cores.
• One year of experience designing or configuring automotive application bootloaders for the powertrain domain for use across different modules.
• One year of experience optimizing low-level stacks for cybersecurity, including work with a Hardware Security Module.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility verification is required at hire.
• Must live within a reasonable commuting distance of the Dearborn worksite.

Responsibilities

• Architect and configure the platform for vehicle control systems, including BSW and AUTOSAR components.
• Ensure software platform stability, reliability, and performance.
• Debug low-level processor resets and software issues; identify root causes and implement effective solutions.
• Optimize platform architecture by distributing runnables across processor cores.
• Integrate third-party software components (SIPs) and supplier-built software into the platform.
• Analyze and troubleshoot vehicle and powertrain functional issues.
• Validate corrective actions and develop preventative measures.
• Design or configure automotive powertrain bootloaders for use across different modules.
• Optimize low-level platform stacks for functional safety and cybersecurity, including MPU protection and Hardware Security Module considerations.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• 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