ADAS Interior Perception Systems Engineer

Dearborn, MI, United States (Hybrid)

Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)team! Utilizing Design Thinking and User Experience methods, you will work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We are seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life.

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Systems Engineer to join our team and play a key role in designing, defining requirements, and creating analysis and testing methodologies for our interior perception systems. In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the safety, convenience, and robustness of future Ford vehicles.

What you'll do...

• Collaborate with feature systems engineers to define design objectives, functional requirements, and architectural decisions for driver engagement systems.
• Develop and apply systematic, statistical methods to translate feature-level requirements into specific system performance expectations.
• Define and develop performance requirements and associated metrics for perception systems, including establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for availability, accuracy, and false positive rates.
• Evaluate a variety of perception interfaces, such as gaze and pose angle, and interior zones.
• Work with vendors to measure system sensitivity to individual factors (e.g., height, seating position, facial attributes), vehicle characteristics (e.g., sensor packaging, interior geometry), and environmental conditions (e.g., ambient light, sun angle).
• Explore and propose system architecture modifications to decrease application sensitivity.
• Investigate and implement strategies to reduce sub-demographic systematic errors.
• Partner with vendors and our hardware team to refine sensor and illuminator packaging requirements.
• Design a validation strategy to quantify system robustness against interacting noise factors for both platform and application sign-off.
• Define real-world usage profiles to estimate system performance for a representative population in naturalistic driving conditions.
• Support root cause analysis for any field issues with cross-functional team.

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• 3+ years of experience as a systems engineer (in automotive, aerospace, defense, or related industry) decomposing/authoring system/sub-system requirements
• Proficiency in statistical analysis and experimental design
• 3+ years of experience with perception systems

Strong communication skills and ability to lead ad-hoc teams

Even better, you may have...

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a systems engineer
• 5+ years of experience delivering production hardware/embedded software
• Understanding of functional safety (ISO 26262) and SOTIF standards and processes
• Experience with systems modeling and/or requirements management tools (SysML/Magic Draw, Polarion, JAMA, DOORS, etc.) and failure mode analysis techniques.

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 change maker, 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…