ADAS Senior Functional Safety Systems Engineer

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford Product Development team. Utilizing Design Thinking and User Experience methods, you will work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We are seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to such advancements as autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies and more!

Qualifications

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in Elecrical Engineering , Computer Science or related field
• 5 years of functional safety experience including in depth knowledge of ISO 2626-3, -4, -5, -6, -7 standards applied to an ADAS project.
• 2 years of functional safety experience implementing ISO 26262-9, -10 standards resulting in completion of the safety analysis using both qualitative and quantitative analysis methods for an ADAS project.
• 1 year experience with embedded hardware and/or software design (coursework/internship/co-op experience allowed)

Even better, you may have...

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Engineering or Computer Engineering or related field
• 10+ years of experience with automotive product development working with safety systems including experience from the concept phase through successful production introduction.
• ISO 26262 experience with ASIL tailoring/decomposition, requirements decomposition from vehicle to system to hardware and software elements.
• ISO 26262 experience with FFI design and analysis, dependent failure analysis and safety analysis.
• Experience with Engineering specification development, requirements development, FMEA, DVPR, FTA, and bench, subsystem, system level testing.
• Experience with computer vision and tracking of humans or pedestrians.
• Experience with the development of automotive sensors (e.g. cameras, radars, etc.) and ECUs
• Experience reviewing, categorizing and analyzing field data to determine error states/failure modes
• Experience developing system specifications, conducting technical design reviews, working with interfacing functional organizations and verification/validation methods for ADAS features/functions.
• Software engineering and algorithm development experience
• Development time with languages (e.g. C, C++, Python, Matlab, etc.)

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

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Responsibilities

What you'll do.

• Lead the development and integration of Functional Safety (FuSa) work products on future vehicle program applications for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
• Lead the FuSa Systems Safety development including the development of the System Safety Concept, technical safety requirements (TSRs), verification and acceptance criteria methods for next generation microcontroller and microprocessor designs.
• Lead the cascade of TSRs to the hardware and software elements including the complete requirement traceability of the system/feature TSRs to the h/w and s/w requirements.
• Support the development of Interface specifications, FMEAs, FTAs, robustness discipline design, and dependent fault analysis for safety related functions and features.
• Understand the performance requirements for the sensing system relative to the ASIL rated features to ensure correct sensor performance envelop for the specific vehicle application as it relates to functional safety requirements.
• Support identification of vehicle application specific potential hazards and Safety Goals with associated Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) ratings for ADAS features.
• Ensure Successful application of the functional safety process for ADAS features on forward model vehicle programs.
• Closely coordinate with feature development engineers to support execution of functional safety design verification plans to ensure proper feature-level performance.
• Support Sign-off of Feature Level performance per a given vehicle with respect to functional safety.
• Support the development of the safety case through the ISO26262 safety analysis methodologies.