Embedded Controls Engineer, Vehicle Motion

🕒 February 24

🏢🏡 Palo Alto – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

🚗 Transport

🔧 Hardware

👥 B2C

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $3G Post IPO debt on 2025-08

Transport • Hardware • B2C

Ford Motor Company is a global automotive manufacturer that designs, engineers, produces, markets, and services a wide range of passenger cars, SUVs, trucks, commercial vehicles, and electrified vehicles. The company operates vehicle sales through dealer networks and direct digital channels, provides financing and insurance services (Ford Credit, Ford Insure), offers connected vehicle software and services (SYNC, Ford app, BlueCruise), and supplies parts, service, and fleet solutions through Ford Pro. Ford also invests in electrification, battery manufacturing, and sustainability initiatives while maintaining substantial manufacturing and R&D operations worldwide.

📋 Description

• Create and implement the control strategy for various vehicle motion attributes and functions, including lateral and longitudinal vehicle dynamics. • Work with suppliers to define functions and interfaces into 3rd party components, driving further consolidation and integration of vehicle functions into our centralized vehicle motion control system. • Collaborate with software integration teams to bring up core functions and broadcast software level requirements to electrical hardware and systems teams. • Understand functional safety principles and participate in functional safety analyses of complex vehicle subsystems. • Develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions. • Author subsystem block diagrams and lead subsystem reviews through all vehicle program development phases. • Collaborate with other system integration leads to capture component level requirements, provide subject matter expertise in sourcing discussions, and collect and approve Device Transmittals. • Early phases of firmware development will focus on hardware validation, labcar testing, and setting up the automation framework for unit, SIL and HIL testing.

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Computer Science, with evidence of exceptional ability, or equivalent. • 4+ years of experience on embedded controls systems such as chassis systems, VCM, or similar dynamic functions. • 4+ years of experience on electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development. • 4+ years of experience with Vehicle Network Protocols such as CAN, LIN & Automotive Ethernet • Strong EE fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, signal generators, power supplies, etc.) • 4+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools for automotive, aerospace, or similar field. • Experience and working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, battery technologies, software/hardware tool development, motor calibration technologies, OBD calibration, functional safety, network, and diagnostics process. • Experience with creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning all test results.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.