About the position
We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves? 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. The Senior Functional Systems Engineer (UIUX) will lead the development of the requirements pertaining to features, functions, and interfaces of the User Experience System. You will work with cross-functional stakeholders to establish performance requirements, review signal chains, capture interface definitions, simulate state machines, and lead supplier discussions to deliver successful implementation of vehicle features via hardware and software. You will lead bring-up and validation activities for each vehicle build and support overall functionality and performance of vehicle systems throughout product life cycle. You will Conceptualize, Design, Engineer, Develop, and support the launch of next-generation vehicle platform architectures for electric vehicles.
Responsibilities
- Lead the feature and function development of systems related to User Experience, defining requirements, iterating via stakeholder reviews, and enabling HW and SW developers.
- Define, test, and validate combined hardware and system requirements for any user experience, features and functions.
- Drive functional and/or electrical simulations.
- Lead and manage the integration of initial prototype systems, including debugging and engineering tests for prototype bucks, lab cars, and vehicles.
- Conduct architecture investigations and execute trade studies to optimize design strategies for experience, cost, and performance.
- Drive functional safety analyses and decomposition of complex vehicle subsystems, creating functional boundary diagrams and system interface specifications.
- Support systems integration efforts with interface definition, development, and testing in collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams.
- Lead/Support system diagnostics.
