Projection Lead, Sr Staff Engineer - Palo Alto, CA, United States

Description · 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 ...

Job description

Description

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 & User Experience methods, you'll work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We're 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  

Responsibilities

What you'll be able to do: 

Projection Lead, Sr Staff Engineer - positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Palo Alto, California). Lead the successful development of next generation software components for electric vehicles. Work with architects, engineers and other technical specialists to design an integrated solution. Define objectives, scopes, timelines, milestones, and deliverables by partnering with cross functional teams. Coordinate with system owners with planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintain solutions for cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, systems or subsystems using defined processes and tools. Analyze and enhance efficiency, stability, and scalability of systems. Integrate solutions with existing embedded systems components. Interface with hardware design team. Provide post-production escalation support. Participate in software and hardware design reviews. Integrate and test new software builds on prototyping vehicle platforms. Deliver artifacts to OTA and program teams for incorporation into production releases. Develop regression tests and ensure proper code coverage for release software. Domestic Travel Required up to 10%.

Qualifications

You'll have... 

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering or related field and 8 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.   8 years of experience with each of the following skills is required:  1. Utilizing C, C++ , and Java to design and develop Linux/Android-based embedded software for OS platform. 2. Using scripting languages and tools: Git and Jira. 3. Testing embedded software functionality using automation toolchains JTag, Python, C/ C++ , UART, and multiple builds from Jenkins. 4. Designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems in a target-specific embedded software environment.  6 years of experience with each of the following skills is required:  1. Utilizing embedded software development technologies, including build toolchains and test suites, to manage and deploy Automotive software. 2. Leveraging development tools to monitor and provide real-time analysis of projection software system performance. 3. Utilizing GitHub for source code management for embedded projection software. 4. Utilizing Jenkins for continuous integration and multi-cloud continuous delivery to develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automate the testing and deployment process for Automotive software.  4 years of experience with each of the following skills is required:  1. HW and SW interaction, including usage of projection software stack (CarPlay and Android Auto), vendor-specific SDKs, Java, and C/C Utilizing C, C++ or Java programming, including experience developing Linux OS-level software for embedded projection functions like Apple-CarPlay, or Android-Auto. 3. Developing libraries communicating with hardware, host computer and various ECUs for Automotive.

We are offering a salary of $264, $300,000.00/yr. 

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 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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call

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