Hybrid Chassis HIL Simulation Engineer

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Chassis HIL Simulation Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $83,280 - $190,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Java, Jenkins, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• Chassis HIL Simulation Engineer advancing software development and validation processes for electric vehicles at Ford. Collaborating with teams to enhance virtual testing methodologies.

Responsibilities

• 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 builds 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 with the Hardware in the Loop, Driver in the loop, and Vehicle in the loop Simulator teams to reduce dependency on vehicle level testing.
• Develop and maintain automation for builds, test, data analysis and reporting.
• Integrate CI tools into existing CAE environment pipelines
• Maintain tools and integrations between various repositories, software suites, and CAE environments

Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent experience
• 2+ years control system development experience.
• 2+ years of experience with Matlab/Simulink tools
• 2+ years of experience integrating Auto-generated or hand coded C-Code into a target ECU and computer simulation objects
• MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or related field (even better)
• Familiarity with Embedded Tester, dSPACE, ECU-Test and Vector tools
• Experience developing automation scripts and GUI applications (e.g. python, Matlab, C++, C#, Java)
• Experience with using CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins
• Demonstrated experience in building plant and controller models for automotive Braking, Steering and Suspension systems
• Demonstrated experience in working on HIL and DIL simulators and deploying SW on external target ECUs.
• Demonstrated experience in Vehicle CAN Network
• Demonstrated experience in system dynamics modeling using first principles and in using tools like CarSim or CarMaker
• Experience with Software Configuration Management Systems (e.g. Git or ClearCase)

Benefits

• 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.