Lead ADAS Algorithm Engineer

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!

Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford Product Development team. Utilizing Design Thinking & 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. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to such advancements as autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!

What you’ll be able to do: 

Lead ADAS Algorithm Engineer positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Palo Alto, CA). Perform algorithm development, verification, and validation in the simulation environment and in real world driving. Perform signal processing and decision-making algorithm development. Support utilities used for code, algorithm verification and testing. Identify areas of improvement and tradeoffs, changes needed to improve performance, and help meet objectives. Lead a team to deploy Machine Learning algorithms and functions to special compute called accelerators. Design metrics and pass fail criteria for the perception stack and ensure deployed algorithms meet algorithm level as well as feature level sensing requirements.

You'll have... 

•  A bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering or a related field and 
• 3 years of experience in the position offered or 3 years of experience performing software development or programming using C, C++, Matlab, Simulink, Stateflow, or Python.
• In lieu of a bachelor’s degree in the aforementioned fields and 3 years of experience as stated, employer will accept a master’s or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 1 year of experience as stated.
• Also requires 1 year of experience developing software in an Agile development environment and using Agile methodologies; 
• 1 year of experience developing and implementing control and estimation, signal processing, machine learning, or computer vision techniques; and 
• 1 year of experience developing embedded control software. 
• Position reports to Palo, Alto, CA office.  Telecommuting permitted in accordance with company policy, but must live within commuting distance of stated office
• Experience may be, but need not be, acquired concurrently.

We are offering a salary of $216,590 to $267,240 per year.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

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