V&V Vehicle Software Lead

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.

What you'll do...

• Responsible for validating vehicle software and integrated systems to ensure they meet functional, quality, performance, and customer requirements throughout the product development lifecycle. 

• Working in a collaborative Agile environment, this role supports the planning, preparation, execution, analysis, and documentation of testing activities for embedded vehicle features and software releases. 

• Responsible for collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify issues, adapting to evolving technologies while using problem solving to drive closure to open items to ensure milestone deliverables are met. 

• Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to identify, investigate, and validate software and system issues, contributing to the delivery of reliable, high-quality vehicle functionality. 

• Support both manual and automated validation efforts, promotes continuous improvement of test processes and tools, and ensures test environments are maintained to support efficient and effective software verification. 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and the ability to adapt to evolving technologies and development priorities while contributing to the successful delivery of vehicle software and system capabilities.

• Identify software failures, assist in prioritizing them for subsequent fixing, and communicating them to cross functional teams.

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science 

• 3+ years of automotive testing, validation, or systems engineering experience.
• Experience performing in-vehicle testing.
• Experience validating embedded software systems and vehicle features.
• Experience working in Agile product development environments.
• Vehicle Validation: Vehicle-level testing including user acceptance testing, defect management, root cause analysis, embedded system validation, vehicle network fundamentals, software update validation, and requirement traceability
• Tools: Jira, Jama, Testrail, CANalyzer

Even better, you may have...

• Vehicle Electrical Architecture knowledge

• ADAS Fundamental

• ISO26262 awareness

• Automotive SPICE awareness

• Regulatory compliance testing process knowledge

• CANoe (preferred)

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 changemaker, 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 range of salary grades 6-8 and ranges from $74,300-$130,000. 

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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. 

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