Software Developer in Test, Systems - Ford Motor Company - Palo Alto, CA

In this position...
As a Software Developer in Test, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests for our embedded software products.
You will also be responsible for defining, decomposing, and realizing feature, function, interface, and testing requirements and associated integration efforts for Ford’s next-generation electronic systems and controls.

You will lead the end-to-end integration and testing of these systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to support product design, vehicle behavior definition, prototype bring-up, and debugging.

What you'll do...

- Design, build, and maintain comprehensive automotive system-level test benches, ensuring their seamless integration of hardware and software components for reliable and scalable test environments, with a strong emphasis on Python-driven automation.
- Develop comprehensive verification and validation plans, test plans, test cases, and test scripts to rigorously validate functional, non-functional, performance, safety, and regression aspects of automotive software systems and components.

- Overseeing and coordinating the development and validation of Distributed (e.g. Software, Electrical & Mechanical) Features on all UEV programs.
- Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams, including software developers (e.g. UX, HMI, Connectivity), controls engineers, and systems engineers, to:
o Develop item definition, identify the system goal, create technical requirements and test scenarios as per consumer electronics and automotive standards
o Authoring and releasing Core Feature Requirements and Specification documents (JAMA, FEDE and JIRA)
o Develop feature specifications, Quality documents (Quality History, Parameter Diagram, Feature Failure Mode Avoidance (FMEA) documentation), feature verification plan, etc.
o Review existing system designs to find new opportunities for cost or quality improvement, with a keen focus on the end c