Senior Manager of Systems Engineering and Safety

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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.

The Systems Engineering & Integration teams at Ford Motor Company Advanced EV are responsible for the design, integration, and testing of all core vehicle features & functions including charging, thermal management, motion controls, fault handling, mode management, and more. This role is focused on systems engineering, safety engineering, & systems integration for all core vehicle features & functions. Examples includes Power & Mode Management, Health & Fault Management, Connectivity, Body, Closures, Charging, Connectivity, Passive Safety Vehicle Access. This includes leadership of architecture (feature, functional, platform, technical, network), requirements L1, L2, L3, Functional Safety, Test Plans, Analysis, traceability, and more. We specialize in parallelized development of prototype functionality and production designs, enabling Advanced EV to rapidly develop feature intent functionality without incurring significant technical debt. Thus an expectation is the ability to be hands-on with the product to learn and inform architecture & requirements (e.g. root cause analysis, prototype integration, and more).

This role also includes ensuring that the product meets the quality & safety caliber set forth within the company by leveraging existing standards, but also creating novel approaches to achieve high quality. Our team is responsible for the entire systems & safety lifecycle during the core development and application of the system into a serial-production vehicle.  

Our team leverages a variety of backgrounds, ranging from robotics, systems engineering, high performance software development, embedded and industrial software engineering, hardware engineering, vehicle engineering, battery management, & more. 

What you'll do...

• Lead the systems engineering & functional safety engineering activities for all abstraction layers for vehicle systems
• Lead the systems integration activities for all abstraction layers for vehicle systems, 
• Partner closely with software, hardware, bring-up, & testing teams.
• Span the entire decomposition from feature, to function, to component
• Ensure timely & comprehensive requirement cascades to internal stakeholders as well as suppliers
• Work closely with the testing teams to develop and execute the Design Verification Plan for respective features & functions
• Get hands-on with the product and see the designs in action!
• Support early prototype integration & test milestones, including hands-on triage & root cause analysis to further improve requirements & designs.
•  Work with project management to develop, document, and allocate various teamsʼ resources for the initiation and implementation of systems engineering, systems integration, & safety engineering processes and improvements. This includes incremental milestones to support prototypes, manufacturing milestones, and launch milestones.

You'll have...
 

• Bachelorʼs Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering, or a related field 10 years of relevant industry experience at a minimum
• Experience working in production applications for vehicle engineering, driveables, hardware, low voltage & high voltage systems, & more.
• Experience working across entire systems & safety lifecycle (concept, functional, technical, requirements, analysis, tests, feedback)
• Experience & familiarity with ISO 26262 or similar standards
• Strong record working in the field of system safety as it relates to software design and development
• Strong engineering communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to a diverse team
• Experience with safety related operating systems RTOS and runtime software environments, as well as Linux
• Proven experience in developing embedded software on a resource-constrained compute platform.
• Ability to design software components and systems and clearly