DAT Feature and Software Engineer

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In this position... 

Ford’s Tools & Calibration team is looking for an AUTOSAR Tools & Calibration Automation Developer to develop, integrate, and maintain automation tooling that supports automotive software delivery, interface management, and calibration validation.

In this role, you’ll focus on building automated, data-driven validation tools that ensure consistency and traceability across software requirements, interfaces, signals, and calibrations. You’ll work with engineering teams to replace error-prone manual validation with scripted, programmatic checks, improve release readiness, and prevent integration defects.

You’ll also support requirements management, interface management, and test case management by developing tools that synchronize engineering data across systems and streamline software delivery workflows.

You'll have...

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

4+ years of experience in software development, engineering automation, tools development, or a related role.

Hands-on experience developing automation scripts and tools using Python or an equivalent programming language.

Understanding of software development lifecycle processes, requirements management, and software integration.

Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across diverse engineering teams.

Even better, you may have...

Experience with AUTOSAR Classic Platform, software component interfaces, ports, and signal mappings.

Familiarity with calibration concepts, A2L/ASAP2 files, calibration parameters, memory mapping, and tunability.

Experience with automotive calibration tools such as ETAS INCA or Vector CANape.

Experience validating consistency across software requirements, signals, interfaces, calibrations, and test cases.

Familiarity with requirements management and test management tools such as JAMA, IBM DOORS, or equivalent platforms.

Experience integrating engineering tools and automating data exchange across APIs, databases, and file-based systems.

Experience developing automated checks for engineering artifacts such as ARXML, A2L, ELF, MAP, and HEX files.

Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and continuous integration practices.

Experience with automotive software delivery, release engineering, and supplier integration workflows.

Knowledge of ASPICE, configuration management, and automotive software development processes.

Experience with data traceability, change impact analysis, and automated reporting.

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 of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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. 

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $99,600-$166,600.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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What you'll do...

Design, develop, and maintain automation tools and scripts to validate consistency and traceability across software requirements, interfaces, signals, and calibrations.

Develop automated validation checks to replace manual reviews of engineering artifacts and identify inconsistencies early in the software development lifecycle.

Support AUTOSAR interface management, including validation of ARXML files, interface definitions, ports, data types, and signal mappings.

Develop and maintain tooling to validate calibration definitions, parameter accessibility, tunability, and consistency across software deliverables.

Perform requirements management and test case management through traceability checks across engineering systems, and develop tools to automate the process.

Support release engineering activities by validating software delivery artifacts and identifying issues that could impact integration, calibration, and verification and validation (V&V).

Implement automated reporting, diagnostics, and error handling to improve visibility into validation results and accelerate issue resolution.

Reduce duplicated manual effort and technical debt by standardizing validation processes and improving automation across the Tools & Calibration ecosystem.