Senior Systems Engineer, Vehicle Access & Passive Safety

Location: Allen Park, MI, United States; Hybrid

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.

Product Creation and Industrialization (PC&I) brings together Ford’s vehicle, electric, digital and design teams with our global manufacturing system. Working as one end-to-end organization, we turn ideas into high-quality vehicles, software and experiences across gas, hybrid and electric, designed around what customers need.

In this position...
The Senior Software Systems Engineer (Vehicle Access) will lead the development of the requirements that define the software involved in vehicle access features like the immobilizer, key cards, key fobs, and digital keys. You will work with cross-functional stakeholders to establish performance requirements, review signal chains, capture interface definitions, document state machines, and coordinate verification and validation to deliver successful implementation of vehicle features via hardware and software.

You will lead bring-up and validation activities as software is delivered, and support overall functionality and performance of vehicle systems throughout the product life cycle. You will conceptualize, design, engineer, develop, and support the launch of next-generation vehicle platform architectures for electric vehicles.

The Senior Software Systems Engineer (Vehicle Access) will lead the development of the requirements that define the software involved in vehicle access features like the immobilizer, key cards, key fobs, and digital keys. You will work with cross-functional stakeholders to establish performance requirements, review signal chains, capture interface definitions, document state machines, and coordinate verification and validation to deliver successful implementation of vehicle features via hardware and software.