ADAS Vehicle Motion Performance Engineer

We bring engineering ideas to life. In Product Development, we make driving more exciting, enjoyable, and sustainable. Ford's Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) team designs and develops hardware and functional models that deliver best-in-class behavior for features like Adaptive Cruise Control, Automatic Emergency Braking, Cross Traffic Alert, Lane Centering Assist, Blue Cruise, and 360-Degree Camera Systems. We are seeking seasoned professionals with experience in vehicle motion control to contribute to our efforts.

This position focuses on leading and supporting vehicle motion engineering development for our Blue Cruise features.

You'll have...Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Controls Engineering, or a closely related field3+ years of in-vehicle lateral or longitudinal motion development experience3+ years of experience working with MATLAB/Simulink Knowledge of vehicle dynamics and chassis components

Ability to lead a small project, demonstrate ownership, and take initiative to further improve features

Even better, you may have...Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Controls Engineering, or a closely related field5+ years of industry experience with steering, brake systems, and/or chassis controls development5+ years of industry experience with ADAS features and/or autonomous vehicle controls

Strong background in vehicle dynamics, system identification, optimization and control. Deep understanding and application experience in advanced model-based control techniques, including state estimation, Kalman filtering, linear and nonlinear control methods

Hardware hands-on experience highly preferred, including experience in dSpace rapid prototyping, Vector tools.

Demonstrated experience reviewing, categorizing, and analyzing field data to determine error states and failure modes

Demonstrated experience with model-based design methods in Simulink for the creation, development, and enhancement of current and new features

Algorithm development experience in any language (C, C++, Python, MATLAB, etc.) 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 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. This position is a salary grade 6 - 8 and ranges from $74,300 - $160,000. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

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