Sr. Infotainment Component Engineer - Compute And Connectivity

We made history and now we work to transform the future - for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You'll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position...

As a Sr Infotainment Component Engineer, you will be the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for Ford's High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) and Telematics Control Unit (TCU) across their complete vehicle lifecycle.

You will lead a broad technical community spanning systems engineering, software, electrical hardware, validation, manufacturing, service, cybersecurity, quality, program management, and suppliers. Success requires the ability to understand system behavior, identify integration risk early, and drive issues to durable resolution.

As a Sr Infotainment Component Engineer, you will be the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for Ford's High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) and Telematics Control Unit (TCU) across their complete vehicle lifecycle. You will lead a broad technical community spanning systems engineering, software, electrical hardware, validation, manufacturing, service, cybersecurity, quality, program management, and suppliers. Success requires the ability to understand system behavior, identify integration risk early, and drive issues to durable resolution.

What you'll do...

• Lead component integration: Coordinate hardware, software, calibration, diagnostics, cybersecurity, validation, and production teams to integrate ECUs into the vehicle electrical system across bench, HIL, vehicle build, commissioning, and production readiness activities.
• Manage suppliers: Partner closely with contract manufacturers and suppliers to ensure internally developed hardware and software are built to specification, meet quality expectations, and are delivered on schedule.
• Validate bench and lab-car functionality: Confirm system behavior, interface readiness, and integration maturity across bench, desktop, and lab-car environments before vehicle-level validation.
• Drive root-cause resolution: Lead structured investigation of software, hardware, network, diagnostic, and vehicle-level issues.
• Own verification planning: Ensure verification plans cover functional behavior, electrical performance, communications, diagnostics, cybersecurity, environmental conditions, and vehicle integration.
• Control release readiness and manage change: Ensure hardware, software, calibration, drawings, requirements, interface definitions, configuration records, diagnostics, network behavior, and supplier content are complete, controlled, and released at program milestones.
• Support launch readiness: Partner with plant and manufacturing engineering to establish calibration routines, configuration writes, VIN consumption, in-line factory software programming, netloader operations, dealer service diagnostics, supplier recovery actions, production readiness, service readiness, and post-launch technical support.

What you'll do...

• Lead component integration: Coordinate hardware, software, calibration, diagnostics, cybersecurity, validation, and production teams to integrate ECUs into the vehicle electrical system across bench, HIL, vehicle build, commissioning, and production readiness activities.
• Manage suppliers: Partner closely with contract manufacturers and suppliers to ensure internally developed hardware and software are built to specification, meet quality expectations, and are delivered on schedule.
• Validate bench and lab-car functionality: Confirm system behavior, interface readiness, and integration maturity across bench, desktop, and lab-car environments before vehicle-level validation.
• Drive root-cause resolution: Lead structured investigation of software, hardware, network, diagnostic, and vehicle-level issues.
• Own verification planning: Ensure verification plans cover functional behavior, electrical performance, communications, diagnostics, cybersecurity, environmental conditions, and vehicle integration.
• Control release readiness and manage change: Ensure hardware, software, calibration, drawings, requirements, interface definitions, configuration records, diagnostics, network behavior, and supplier content are complete, controlled, and released at program milestones.
• Support launch readiness: Partner with plant and manufacturing engineering to establish calibration routines, configuration writes, VIN consumption, in-line factory software programming, netloader operations, dealer service diagnostics, supplier recovery actions, production readiness, service readiness, and post-launch technical support.