Feature System Engineer - Prognostics

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 an exciting opportunity for you to join our expanding area of Prognostics.

Are you passionate about leveraging modern day methodologies/tools to understand automotive systems, study and predict the degradation or occurrence of a problem in a vehicle component/system? Would you love to accelerate our efforts to build amazing experiences and software products in the Connected Vehicles space - with data?

We are seeking top-tier Systems Engineering professionals who are data driven, self-motivated and detail oriented to help develop and deliver breakthrough Prognostic Features.

Position Responsibilities

• Develop a system level understanding across software, hardware and data related to a feature or feature group.

• Develop data-driven approaches to collecting and analyzing Connected Vehicle Data or large data sets.

• Create and review Design Verification Plans to validate assigned engineering features. Responsible for end-to-end issue resolution at time of system integration.

• Evaluate potential design options to make appropriate proposals considering feature requirements, available technology, efficiency, and platform capabilities.

• Develop test cases that exercise and verify the robustness of prognostic algorithms.

• Participate in cross-functional discussions to gather business requirements and technical expertise and translate them into tangible requirements and feature implementation plans to drive feature development.

• Interface with Ford Customer Service Division (FCSD) to integrate smartphone technology into the overall customer service experience of the future.

• Drive change requirements for feature enhancements and quality improvements.

• Support the development of engineering deliverables in Failure Modes Analysis (FMA), feature interface documents and cybersecurity threat modeling.

• Develop and author product-specific requirements, evaluating quality and aiding to triage issues to determine root cause. Author and manage Key Performance Indicator dashboards, tracking metrics and providing critical feedback around customer experience.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree in Automotive Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 2+ years of experience performing systems analysis and designing systems, subsystems, or components defining requirements as described above.

• 2+ years of leveraging Data-Driven tools to analyze Connected Vehicle Data or large data sets.

• 2+ years of experience: investigating and resolving feature-specific issues during product development and launch; or analyzing system failure points and evaluating solution proposals including conducting high level FMAs and FMEAs.

• 2+ years of experience: interfacing cloud-to-vehicle modem communications; or applying network communication protocols, transport protocols, and payload optimization techniques.

• Experience in leading the development of a feature from concept to production while collecting and analyzing vehicle analytics data to improve feature design and performance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree with 5+ years of automotive experience in engineering and/or data analytics.

• 5+ years of proven knowledge of Robust Engineering Fundamentals including P-Diagrams, Noise Factors.

• Knowledge of low or high voltage Battery Management Systems, vehicle architecture, sensors, and signal processing.

• Monitor, prioritize and drive actions to improve on traditional Quality Metrics: Net Promoter Score, Vehicle Repairs, JD Power, Customer Escalations to improve feature performance.

• Experience working with system modeling language (MagicDraw) and process/interface mapping.

• Experience working with Atlassian JIRA and Team Center applications (VSEM, etc.)

• Ability to clearly communicate technical ideas/findings to cross functional engineering teams.

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, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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:

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This position is a range of salary grades 6-8 .

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