Director, Hardware Engineering – Integration

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🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🔧 Hardware Engineer

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1903

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-08

Logistics • Consulting • Marketing

Ford Motor Company is a globally renowned automotive company based in the United States, established by Henry Ford. The company is committed to building a better world where every individual has the freedom to move and follow their dreams. Ford is dedicated to innovation, with a focus on services, experiences, and software alongside its traditional vehicle manufacturing. The company is actively involved in sustainability initiatives and aims to meet ambitious environmental targets. Ford values service, community impact, and strives to combine business success with social and environmental responsibility. With a rich history of over 121 years, Ford continues to adapt and lead in the evolving automotive landscape.

📋 Description

• Lead design and validation of end effectors, grippers, and tooling for Ford's highest-volume robotic applications • Own edge compute hardware and enclosures connecting plant equipment to the Ford platform • Build and maintain RoboGym test cells for qualifying third-party robots • Set cable and wire-harness standards and build in-house harnessing capability • Establish ATP's commissioning method, including risk assessment, virtual commissioning, factory acceptance, site acceptance, and plant handover • Integrate robots and cells with PLC, safety PLC, HMI, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, and OPC UA • Reduce deployment cost and cycle time through standard designs, reusable controls templates, and lessons-learned loops • Train and certify plant and ATP engineers • Define device and supplier readiness standards, including drivers, manifests, data interfaces, and safety documentation • Align suppliers with open interface standards such as VDA 5050 • Design ATP hardware for manufacture and scale with TDM • Establish functional-safety gates and require documented risk assessments and validated safety functions • Partner with plant safety, controls, and cybersecurity teams • Lead and grow a multidisciplinary engineering and commissioning team • Convert outside integrator work into in-house Ford capability • Set team structure, standard work, and career pathways

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or Controls Engineering, or a related field • 12+ years in automation, robotics, or industrial equipment engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams • Hands-on experience designing robot cells and end-of-arm tooling and commissioning them in a production environment • PLC and controls integration experience with Rockwell and Siemens • Experience with industrial networks including PROFINET and EtherNet/IP • Working knowledge of robot functional safety, including ISO 10218 and ISO 13849, and risk assessment practice • Design for manufacture experience, taking hardware from prototype to production • Experience leading teams on the plant floor and working with plant leadership through launch

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous PTO • Retirement, savings and stock investment plans • Incentive compensation • Opportunities for professional and personal growth • Recognition