Principal Diagnostics Engineer

Imagine what you could do here at Ford! Great ideas evolve into extraordinary products and customer experiences. When you bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you will accomplish. The Digital Manufacturing Systems team is seeking a highly motivated Principal Software Engineer to help imagine, invent, and implement technology used to manufacture the next generation of Ford vehicles. Our environment fosters product innovation, rapid iteration, and a liberating amount of autonomy. Our development stack is varied and involves a wide variety of technologies including low-level and server-side programming. As a principal engineer you will be expected to implement never done before solutions on not yet shipped hardware. Our team believes in fun, camaraderie, learning, and collaboration at work, and are looking for someone that shares those values. 

The Digital Manufacturing Systems team is seeking a highly motivated Principal Software Engineer to help imagine, invent, and implement technology used to manufacture the next generation of Ford vehicles. Our environment fosters product innovation, rapid iteration, and a liberating amount of autonomy. Our development stack is varied and involves a wide variety of technologies including low-level and server-side programming. As a principal engineer you will be expected to implement never done before solutions on not yet shipped hardware. Our team believes in fun, camaraderie, learning, and collaboration at work, and are looking for someone that shares those values. 

Minimum Qualifications

• High attention to detail
• Strongly empathetic with the ability to partner with broad variety of internal partner teams and internal clients
• Extensive in-plant and vehicle diagnostics systems and software experience ranging from embedded software architecture within the ECUs, development toolchains for diagnostics systems development, data exchange formats such as ODX, and test definitions for on-board and off-board testing.
• Experience in generating test definitions for manufacturing off the development toolchain in an effort to process automate the design-to-make workstream
• Working knowledge or data model comprehension of product design and product lifecycle management (PLM) management systems from the perspective of design data digitization and democratization 
• Extensive with electrical CAD and schematics definition, representation and digitization
• Working level expertise in vehicle architecture (zonal, functional), networking (e.g., CAN, LIN, Ethernet) and protocols (OBD, OBD-2, IP) from the perspective of connectivity and diagnostics
• Experience or strong interest in robotics and industrial controls systems with an eye towards digitizing and digitalizing electrical testing in the assembly process
• Ability to think through factory/manufacturing implications of your solutions in order to build the right things, the right way, the first time.

 

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! 

 

What you'll receive in return: 

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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