Hybrid Senior Feature Delivery Engineer

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Senior Feature Delivery Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chennai, India

About the role

• Senior Feature Delivery Engineer focusing on automotive systems engineering and feature delivery at Ford in Chennai.

Responsibilities

• Understand and use GPDS Gateway Deliverables and Fundamental intent of each set of gateway deliverables.
• Ability to set up Bill of Features at beginning of program PS / PSC and achieve stakeholder buy-in
• Ability to set up Gateways in JIRA with 130+ features and track delivery of approximately 40+ Feature Owners. Roll-up Of Feature Owner Deliverables Checklist for Program Milestone Reviews (Feature Health Assessment Checklist)
• Play a role in resolving cross functional issues as a participant and in some cases through leading small cross functional teams.
• Be a resource for feature owners and support with the framework, processes and tools for successful program delivery
• Manage Software Feature Maturity and Delivery Across All Features FDJ Through OKTB.
• Support feature test plan creation, execution and JIRA issue management at FDJ Breadboard HIL
• Drive cross-functional and cross-feature issue resolution and define escalation plan
• Help feature and software owners get changes identified, studied by all the right stakeholders and implemented with quality and within program cost/timing needs.
• Develop and execute a feature change management process specific to a vehicle program
• Represent Feature PMT during VE and management evaluation drives to troubleshoot feature issues and identify resolution paths
• Lead Feature PMT AIMs deck and drive cross-function issue resolution
• Contribute to the development and integration of new cross-functional features at the systems engineering level
• Assist in the allocation of features and functions across electronic modules and subsystems to meet cost, quality and feature performance targets.
• Develop high-level network, wiring, and power distribution topologies/schematics/block diagrams.
• Contribute to the development of feature specifications, feature Failure Mode Avoidance documentation, feature verification plan, etc.
• Support / Drive cross-functional and cross-feature issue resolution and define escalation plan
• Engineering Excellence: Root cause, analyze issues related to Software, Electrical HW and Mechanical HW

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or similar
• 5+ years of experience with automotive systems engineering
• Ford Design & Release and/or functional PMT experience
• Troubleshooting experience with mechanical, electromechanical and software systems
• Good team work skills and practices
• Ability to manage/resolve urgent launch concerns
• Demonstrated ability to apply engineering disciplines for failure mode avoidance
• Experience with CAN communication data and ECU diagnostics
• Demonstrated ability to write presentations and communicate well with various groups
• Strong leadership skills, passion for quality, passion to improve customer satisfaction
• Understanding of and past demonstration Ford OS Behavior