Software Engineer - Functional Safety Software Motor Controls

Software Engineer - Functional Safety Software for Motor Controls

We made history and now we work to transform the future - for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You'll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out.

Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position...

Looking for a motivated embedded software engineer who is familiar with both motor controls software and functional safety software. Someone who is ready to jump in and help resolve software and calibration issues at different test setups, who is both a great team player and an individual contributor. Someone who is willing to study different versions of inverter hardware, understand the impact on the low-level drivers and develop appropriate functional safety algorithms accordingly.

Software Engineer - Functional Safety Software for Motor Controls

What you'll do...

* Apply ISO 26262 to develop functional safety software for motor controls

* Develop and maintain functional safety software calibration

* Design and execute test methods to validate functional safety software using HIL and SIL

* Assist in the troubleshooting of functional safety software and calibration issues, both in development and in production

* Support interface requirement specification development

* Collaborate with the functional safety teams to ensure requirement traceability

* Support low-level driver integration and troubleshooting

* Support bench testing validation of each new low-level driver package

* Support all motor controls software release processes

* Create and execute data post-processing scripts

* Support motor controls software testing in HIL, dynamometer lab and vehicle

* Propose technical solutions to both functional safety and motor controls issues

What you'll do...

* Apply ISO 26262 to develop functional safety software for motor controls

* Develop and maintain functional safety software calibration

* Design and execute test methods to validate functional safety software using HIL and SIL

* Assist in the troubleshooting of functional safety software and calibration issues, both in development and in production

* Support interface requirement specification development

* Collaborate with the functional safety teams to ensure requirement traceability

* Support low-level driver integration and troubleshooting

* Support bench testing validation of each new low-level driver package

* Support all motor controls software release processes

* Create and execute data post-processing scripts

* Support motor controls software testing in HIL, dynamometer lab and vehicle

* Propose technical solutions to both functional safety and motor controls issues