ADAS Networking and Protocols Software Development Supervisor

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.

 

What you'll do…

We are seeking a diligent, detail-driven professional to provide vital expertise in support of our Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Embedded Software development activities. This involves applying engineering principles and analytical techniques in support of delivering embedded networking and protocols software for the next generation of ADAS ECU.

• Lead a team responsible for the software design and development of real-time networking and protocol needs within and between computational domains for consumer applications in Ford’s next-generation ADAS ECU
• Provide technical direction to a skilled team of engineers responsible for the design, development, verification, and integration of embedded C++ software that manages signals and interfaces, enabling communications within the ADAS system
• Apply CAN and Ethernet expertise to ensure ADAS vehicle level interface alignment with the vehicle systems architecture team and the vehicle software platform team
• Apply your knowledge leadership and subject matter expertise to the ADAS domain with communication techniques and protocols, including SOME/IP, TCP/IP, UDP, CAN, Ethernet, PCIe
• Provide subject matter expertise related to the ECU hardware architecture and dependent microcontrollers as they impact I/O and robust and efficient message and signal delivery
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams, ADAS feature owners, algorithm and function owners, and software architects to design, develop, and implement a robust communications framework and architecture
• Provide expertise and guidance to suppliers on networking architecture and design choices, ensuring that decisions consider proper networking behavior as a collective ADAS system
• Provide guidance to verification and tooling teams on methods to enhance networking debugging and testing
• Drive the software development process within the networking and protocols team.  Maintain a culture of creating software design documentation per established process. Approve documentation through formal reviews.
• Drive established Agile development methods within the platform communications scrum teams. Lead the breakdown of specs into actionable Epics and Stories. Manage backlogs and active sprints.
• Lead a culture of continuous improvement and proactive ownership.  Drive productivity improvements and productivity gaps to resolution.

 

You'll have…

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field of study
• 7+ years of experience with Software architecture or embedded software application development
• 7+ years of experience working on a consumer product at all phases of development (pre-production through launch) 
• 7+ years developing Embedded Software in C/C++

 

Ideally you'll have…

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science
• Strong understanding of vision processing architectures and vision pipeline software development
• Expert user of software development and productivity tools (e.g. GIT, JIRA, Confluence, JAMA, QNX Momentics) 
• Team oriented, with demonstrated ability to work well in cross functional groups to deliver a highly technical product
• Demonstrated mentorship of engineers / developers / architects
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to build and transition a growth team to a highly productive, mature team
• 7+ years experience with the Linux and/or QNX operating systems
• 7+ years experience with Agile software development processes
• ADAS embedded platform software development experience with proven success in a fast-paced, cross-functional engineering team environment 
• Expertise with established software design patterns, efficient data structures and multi-threaded system design 
• Expertise with AUTOSAR Adaptive 
• Working level experience with AUTOSAR Classic
• Expertise with various communication styles and protocols such as SOME/IP, TCP/IP, UDP, CAN, Ethernet, PCIe
• Expertise with interface languages such as Franca and FIDL
• Expertise with extensible markup languages such as ARXML
• Expertise with lower-level embedded software networking methodologies
• Strong understanding of modern Middleware designs and best practices 
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