Senior Staff WiFi Connectivity Engineer

🕒 January 26

🏢🏡 Palo Alto – Hybrid

💵 $163.1k - $308.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 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

• Take full ownership of WiFi performance for Wireless CarPlay and Android Auto. • Optimize the stack for low-latency, high-throughput video streaming and jitter-free audio, ensuring a seamless user experience. • Lead the connectivity-side validation for Apple and Google certification. • Ensure the WiFi subsystem meets all KPIs regarding connection setup time, throughput stability, and multi-protocol handling required for official projection approval. • Architect and implement solutions for complex WiFi use cases, including Multi-Role/Multi-Channel (MCC/SCC) concurrency. • Define the long-term roadmap for WiFi at Ford. • Take accountability for the end-to-end software lifecycle, from silicon selection to production-ready drivers. • Design and implement WiFi drivers and firmware integrations optimized for hypervisor-based architectures (Xen/KVM). • Drive the strategy for WiFi Alliance (WFA) certification and regulatory compliance (FCC/CE). • Act as the central lead between Hardware, Antenna/RF, Cyber Security, and the Projection/Infotainment teams to ensure a cohesive wireless ecosystem. • Manage technical relationships with Tier 1 chipset vendors.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience. • 10+ years in WiFi driver development and wireless systems, with a track record of shipping connectivity solutions for high-volume consumer or automotive products. • Demonstrated experience optimizing WiFi for Wireless CarPlay and Android Auto, including deep knowledge of Wi-Fi Direct (P2P) and SoftAP protocols. • Mastery of C and C++ for Linux application / kernel-level development, specifically within the network stack (cfg80211, mac80211). • Expert-level ability to debug and fix latency, packet loss, and throughput issues using network sniffers and logic analyzers. • Proven experience architecting connectivity solutions in virtualized environments where hardware resources are partitioned or shared between OSs. • Hands-on experience with Apple/Google connectivity certification requirements and WFA Sigma testing. • Expert knowledge of 802.11 standards (including Wi-Fi 6/6E/7) and the ability to solve "impossible" bugs spanning hardware, firmware, and OS.

🏖️ 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