ADAS Surround View Camera Feature Engineer

ADAS Surround View Camera Feature Engineer

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Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) team! Utilizing Design Thinking and User Experience methods, you will work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We are seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life.

We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to such advancements as autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies and more!

We bring engineering ideas to life. In ADAS, we make driving more exciting, enjoyable, and safe. Ford’s ADAS team designs and develops Camera Visualization, Blue Cruise, Autonomous Emergency Braking, Cross Traffic Alert, and Pro Trailer Backup and Hitch Assist. We are seeking a professional who can contribute to our efforts with experience and passion in the development of camera visualization features, functions, sensors, ECUs, models, and software.

It will likely also involve other elements of the process because we are more interested in adding high quality people to the team than trying to squeeze engineers into a specific role. You will:

• Act as the Authority of Ford’s end-to-end design, implementation, and validation of camera-based human-visualization Features including Rear View Camera (FMVSS
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  Off-Road Views, Pro Trailer Views, Offboard Video Streaming, Onboard Video Recording, and more
• Collaborate with Product Design and Digital Design teams to define the roadmap and scope of Ford’s Camera Experience Features, including the look and feel we want our customers to experience
• Engage with Automotive Safety Office (ASO) and Office of the General Counsel (OGC) to ensure Ford's solutions comply with legal and regulatory requirements, including FMVSS
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• Drive the decomposition of the Features and the allocation and orchestration of functionality across Ford’s vehicle domains, including Motion Control, Power Supply, Camera Systems, Cloud Connectivity, and In-Vehicle Infotainment.
• Ensure the robustness of our camera features by leading the development of requirements, Boundary diagrams, design analysis, Failure Mode Avoidance, robustness fields and test procedures.
• Work with Hardware, platform, Software and Test teams to ensure Feature requirements are cascaded, aligned, and accepted.
• Drive continuous improvement in test coverage and test techniques to proactively find and resolve technical issues early in the product development cycle, including simulation and vehicle prototypes
• Work with Functional Safety engineers to develop and refine feature functional safety requirements, item definition, hazard analysis/risk assessment and functional safety concept in compliance with ISO-26262/Ford Functional Safety process.
• Ensure new features seamlessly integrate with existing features to provide a superb customer experience
• Support development of Design validation methods to ensure feature robustness across all vehicles environmental conditions and customer usage
• Work with the Hardware In the Loop (HIL) and virtual validation teams to establish procedures to reduce dependence on vehicle-level testing.
• Help execute real-world evaluation of ADAS features via vehicle/HIL/virtual testing and identify system problems/issues
• Lead investigations of potential issues through problem solving analyses such as 8
  
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• Utilize Connected Vehicle data to analyze and assess the ‘real-time’ performance of the Features in our customers’ vehicles to identify robustness and reliability improvement opportunities and drive solutions

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and…