Ford Racing Vehicle Integration Engineer

Ford • Allen Park, MI

9d • $74,300 - $166,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Vehicle Integration Engineer within Ford Racing's Vehicle Engineering team, you'll lead the end-to-end vehicle development, testing, and validation of future Ford Racing products—ensuring technical excellence and an emotive customer experience. You'll translate customer insights into balanced, vehicle-level requirements and drive cross-functional teams through the milestones, testing, and validation needed to deliver segment-defining performance vehicles.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent engineering degree.
• 2 - 5+ years of experience in Vehicle Engineering, Product Development, or a related automotive engineering role.
• Proven ability to lead and facilitate cross-functional teams in solving complex technical issues while building strong professional relationships.
• Experience in vehicle testing and validation, including the ability to assess "Fit for Test" status for hardware and software.
• Experience managing engineering milestones, gateways, and program documentation within a formal product development system (e.g., GPDS).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to translate complex technical tradeoffs into customer-focused insights for executive and multi-departmental audiences.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of vehicle-level automotive product development experience across a wide range of attributes.
• Proven track record delivering complete automotive product development cycles from initial concept through launch.
• Experience with modern software development processes, Over-The-Air (OTA) updates, and feature delivery alongside traditional mechanical systems.
• A clear, practical understanding of performance vehicle customers their passions, pain points, needs, and priorities backed by customer insight tools.
• Outstanding self-motivation and initiative, with an "early tech adopter" mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead Design Confirmation Vehicle (DCV) development and launch activities for Ford Racing programs, ensuring all engineering gateways and milestones are met with high quality and efficiency.
• Translate customer insights into balanced vehicle-level requirements and cascade them into system-level targets, managing technical tradeoffs across cross-functional teams to preserve "emotional delight" features.
• Oversee the lifecycle of test vehicles, including hardware/software maturity tracking and "Fit for Test" certification, while optimizing testing processes to improve Design Validation (DV) efficiency.
• Direct Track and Off-Road Durability testing, including resource planning, logistics, and safety, ensuring events are financially responsible and productive.
• Lead final validation of vehicle emotive experiences, including assessment and preparation of media vehicles for flawless external representation.

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