Software Developer - Systems

Ford of Canada's operations include a national headquarters, three vehicle assembly and engine manufacturing plants, three parts distribution centres, and three Connectivity and Innovation centres. Ford employs approximately 7,000 people in Canada, while an additional 18,000 people are employees in the more than 400 Ford and Ford-Lincoln dealerships across the country. For more information, please visit

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.

As a member of the Systems Software Performance team, you will work on next-generation automotive infotainment platforms, telematics, and high-impact connected car innovations. This team is responsible for the end-to-end performance lifecycle: from measurement and deep-trace analysis to the research, design, and implementation of optimizations across various embedded domains.

• Measure system behavior to isolate sub-optimal interactions and deep-dive into complex bottlenecks across all layers—from Kernel and Drivers up to Application and UI to architect and implement system-level performance fixes.
• Design and build on-device and server-side tools, alongside automated testing, to capture and post-process key performance diagnostics.
• Characterize the performance impacts of new feature submissions against established KPI budgets (such as boot time, latency, and throughput).
• Contribute actively to team deliverables through participation in agile scrum development sprints.
• Monitor and optimize system memory footprint, resolving memory leaks, fragmentation, and resource contention to maintain long-term stability during continuous operation.
• Profile and optimize power consumption, thermal behavior, and system sleep/wake cycles to maximize efficiency without compromising responsiveness.
• Build telemetry pipelines and remote logging mechanisms to analyze real-world performance data from test fleets and proactively detect regressions.
• Collaborate with hardware vendors and silicon partners to leverage hardware accelerators, ensuring efficient CPU utilization and optimal throughput.

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field of study.

• 3-5 years’ professional experience in embedded C/C++ development.
• 3+ years’ experience in Python programing.
• Hands-on experience with Linux and/or Android internals.
• Proven experience with multi-threaded embedded systems design and Real-Time OS (RTOS) concepts.

Master’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

• Specialized optimization experience in one or more areas:
  File Systems, Memory Management, CPU Scheduling, or Kernel Configuration.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Expertise with performance profiling tools such as strace, ftrace, LTTng, Perfetto, QNX Momentics.
• Proficiency in scripting languages, particularly Python, for data parsing and automation.
• Experience with In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) or automotive networking (CAN, Automotive Ethernet).
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