Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford Product Development team. Utilizing Design Thinking and User Experience methods, you’ll work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We’re seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. In this position, you will be part of an engineering team designing advanced electronic control units for next-generation vehicles. You will collaborate with other engineers to block-diagram, design, implement, simulate, validate, and optimize circuits in your section. You will be responsible for executing a rigorous hardware test plan in our state-of-the-art laboratories to ensure our hardware meets Ford's world-class quality standards. ### Responsibilities You will be responsible for delivering hardware on time while maintaining cost targets. In this role, you will: - Design high-speed digital circuits to meet section requirements. - Design circuits using industry-standard schematic capture tools. - Implement layouts for assigned subsections. - Design complex high-speed signals that meet impedance requirements. - Perform worst-case analysis of circuits in your area of responsibility. - Generate documentation that defines processor pin assignments. - Develop detailed design documents. - Perform failure mode analysis and generate process documentation. - Define stress test routines required to validate functional sections. - Design communication links between the processor, other internal subsections, and external modules. - Formulate test plans to ensure component-level performance. - Validation testing to ensure performance over temperature and voltage extremes. - Perform root cause analysis and resolve issues in assigned sections. - Participate in system design reviews. - Interface closely with other teams, such as Software, Mechanical, and Manufacturing, as well as external component suppliers. - Travel occasionally as required. ### Qualifications **You'll have...** - Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering and/or equivalent experience. - 6+ months of experience with hardware or embedded software systems (internship and coursework allowed) - Legal eligibility to work in the U.S. (Sponsorship is unavailable for this role) **Even better, you may have...** - Master’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering - Knowledge of microprocessors, solid state memory, cameras, displays, and sensors - Solid understanding of industry-standard interfaces (e.g., LVDS, DDR, PCI, I2C, and Ethernet) - Excellent hardware and software debugging skills - Familiarity with test equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, temperature chambers, time-domain reflectometers, and precision power meters) - A motivated self-starter mindset - Strong collaboration and leadership skills