Functional Safety Engineer

🕒 April 2

🏢🏡 Dearborn – Hybrid

💵 $85.4k - $192.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

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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

• Within the first 6 months, rapidly begin to work with cross-functional and global teams within Product Development including research and advanced engineering to conduct ISO 26262 Functional Safety analysis of challenging new and carry-over technology, including powertrain, infotainment, active safety, and automated technologies. • Within the first year, become a subject matter expert in Ford ISO 26262 processes, methods, tools, and information (formal and on the job training will be provided). • Results in becoming a technical Functional Safety and systems engineering key resource in Product Development. • Within the first year, become a leader in creating and continuously improving innovative, simple and safe advanced system designs. Work with other Functional Safety engineers to complete foundational and future Functional Safety analysis. • Work with other Functional Safety Engineers to create globally common safety ratings, processes, methods, tools, training, and help to accelerate global adoption of SysML based Functional Safety analysis at Ford. • Results in moving fast and continuously innovating great systems engineering into key technology at Ford.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering. • 2+ years of experience engineering software-enabled systems • Experience with ISO26262 • Experience with technical writing and clear written technical communications. • Working knowledge of electrical/electronic systems and software fundamentals. • Experience with systems engineering or systems thinking and MBSE/SysML. • Experience designing system, software, or electronic hardware architectures.

🏖️ 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.