Vehicle Controls Software Simulation Engineer

Vehicle Controls Software Simulation Engineer

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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.

Seeking SW Simulation Engineer with experience building MIL/SIL/HIL (XiL) environments including HW, models, and SW integration to join our Chassis Controls simulation team. This position is responsible for integrating SW into XiL solutions, creating automation pipelines to streamline model builds, testing, and report analysis, and leveraging XiL solutions to test Chassis SW and support defect and bug fix efforts. You will be joining a team of passionate and highly skilled engineers who are collectively working to deliver the best testing environments for our internal and external partners.

Simulation engineer responsible for: - building and executing XiL environments for function testing chassis controls logic in embedded systems. - Creating automation scripts for CI pipelines

What you'll do...

• Define efficient physical and virtual SW validation methods by integrating plant models with controller software source code.

• Develop necessary scripts and tools to automate software build for software virtualization.

• Engage cross functional team members to coordinate on-time delivery of in house and supplier software components to be compatible with the virtual test environments.

• Develop virtual test environments & test cases to enable testing HW dependent test cases through simulation.

• Work closely with ADAS feature and system engineers to resolve in-house software issues

• Work with the Hardware in the Loop, Driver in the loop, and Vehicle in the loop Simulator teams to further reduce dependency on vehicle level testing.

• Develop automation for build, test, data analysis and reporting.

What you'll do...

• Define efficient physical and virtual SW validation methods by integrating plant models with controller software source code.

• Develop necessary scripts and tools to automate software build for software virtualization.

• Engage cross functional team members to coordinate on-time delivery of in house and supplier software components to be compatible with the virtual test environments.

• Develop virtual test environments & test cases to enable testing HW dependent test cases through simulation.

• Work closely with ADAS feature and system engineers to resolve in-house software issues

• Work with the Hardware in the Loop, Driver in the loop, and Vehicle in the loop Simulator teams to further reduce dependency on vehicle level testing.

• Develop automation for build, test, data analysis and reporting.