HIL/SIL Integration & Testing Engineer

Job Description

The Vehicle Controls department supports the Ford Model-E organization by providing a vehicle simulation environment that enables our controls development teams to design, verify, and validate their control systems.

This position involves integrating and testing our proprietary HIL/SIL/MIL environment to test the vehicle controls for body, chassis, and powertrain subsystems with the goal of improving the DV efficiency and reducing the testing time on prototype vehicles. Additionally, this work will require development of specific test descriptions, applications commissioning, user support/training, testing automation, and scripting. **

Responsibilities**

• Lead integration and testing of our proprietary HIL/SIL/MIL applications for all applicable powertrain variants.
• Develop tools and scripts to expedite the applications integration delivery and improve simulation quality.
• Provide support to end users with issues resolution.
• Collaborate with the HIL/SIL Modeling team to enhance the correlation between HIL/SIL data and vehicle data.
• Develop and maintain documentation for tools, testing methods and processes.
• Provide assistance to development of Continuous Integration framework.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics/Electronics Engineering, Computer/Software Engineering or related degree.
• Programming proficiency with some of the following Matlab/Simulink/C code.
• Working experience with debugging embedded systems.
• Working experience with testing on HIL rigs (dSpace).
• Working experience with software versioning tools (Git/GitHub).
• Familiarity with Internal Combustion and Electrified Powertrains.
• Basic knowledge of general physics and general vehicle operation.
• Basic knowledge of Analog/Digital Control.

Personal Qualities:

• High learning agility.
• Excellent team working skills.
• Emotional resilience.
• Highly organized.
• Highly motivated/self-starter and outstanding interpersonal skills.
• Good written and verbal English communication skills.

Nice to Haves (Desired Qualifications/Experience):

• Working experience with issues tracking systems (JIRA).
• Working experience with ECU-Test developing test cases.
• Working experience with Python.
• Familiarity with software engineering methodologies/frameworks (scrum, agile, SAFe, Continuous Integration).
• Familiarity with automotive communication protocols (LIN/CAN/Ethernet).
• Familiarity with AUTOSAR architectures.