Systems Engineer

• Support the Thermal Management Systems Engineering team by completing assigned projects
• Assist with systems engineering duties in the Thermal Management department
• Collaborate with team members to ensure efficient workflow and task completion
• Participate in departmental meetings
• Contribute to ongoing coolant and refrigerant system projects and initiatives
• Research advanced thermal management-related topics
• Participate in benchmarking activities
• Perform additional duties as assigned to support team and business needs

Co-Op – Thermal Management, Systems Engineering

• Define and maintain the Network Performance Budget by product area across vehicle programs and architectures
• Forecast future network loading and bandwidth needs based on product roadmaps, feature growth, and architectural strategy
• Drive end-to-end network load assessments, including message catalog reviews, traffic modeling, and simulation or measurement of bus utilization, latency, and jitter
• Establish criteria and thresholds for acceptable network loading and performance and communicate them to product teams
• Create and manage a Network Performance Dashboard for current and projected network performance health
• Support Electrical Architecture Reviews and other forums by evaluating network implications of new features, ECUs, and topology changes
• Provide recommendations and risk assessments for architecture and change-control processes
• Partner with Electrical Architecture PSEs to ensure adherence to performance, reliability, and scalability principles
• Interface with ECU software teams, hardware design teams, and microcontroller strategy teams on bandwidth needs, timing budgets, and implementation constraints
• Provide network-related performance and resource-constraint input to software and microcontroller teams
• Develop, standardize, and improve tools and methods for network performance modeling, simulation, testing, and reporting
• Document and share best practices, reference architectures, and lessons learned across product areas

Staff Systems Engineer – Automotive Network Communications

• Own Body Structure and Closures SMT coordination across systems, subsystems, and vehicle interfaces
• Define and drive technical imperatives aligned with program targets, milestones, and customer promises
• Lead structured problem solving, root-cause analysis, and trade-off decisions
• Define must-be-true conditions, contingencies, and data-driven decisions to protect program metrics
• Identify and resolve issues at component and vehicle levels
• Balance customer experience, manufacturability, cost, and enterprise constraints
• Deliver concise, executive-ready written, verbal, and visual updates
• Align stakeholders with competing objectives and remove enterprise-level roadblocks
• Develop and manage 30/60/90-day and long-range plans
• Identify and mitigate risks early
• Lead delivery to cost, quality, and timing targets along the VDP/GVDP glidepath
• Synthesize technical inputs into credible forecasts and aggregate status
• Drive design deliverables, benchmarking, cost management, HVI, interface requirements, and financial/quality imperatives
• Co-lead supplier selection, tooling kick-off, and PPAP readiness
• Lead engineering changes and validation activities
• Support DREs and IRTs through development and vehicle launch
• Champion Engineering with Simplicity through simplification, standardization, and smart reuse
• Develop improvement ideas for Body Structures and Closures SMT
• Monitor emerging technologies and competitive products
• Translate insights into design and execution strategies

Body Structures and Closures Systems Engineer

• Develop and execute the OTA Readiness Plan for vehicle launch and OTA capabilities
• Understand implementation project timelines and vehicle program rollout timing
• Develop, design, and create payloads and campaigns to deliver VeSCoM and monitor performance
• Design dashboards to monitor delivery status using optimized SQL statements in relational databases and big data platforms
• Drive resolution of issues lacking a natural owner or requiring multifunctional coordination
• Own the end-to-end OTA deployment method by coordinating with SW VSE, SIT, PQE, and PEMs
• Ensure successful VeSCoM delivery for Capture Test Fleet and customers
• Understand core strategies, feature requirements, UX requirements, and operational process requirements for OTA programming
• Lead multifunctional efforts across Product Development, Aftersales Engineering, Customer Experience, and supporting teams from inception through validation, approval, and delivery
• Collaborate with the System Integration Team to develop and execute integration plans for robust field performance
• Drive closed-loop learning for update-campaign issues and route corrective actions to responsible owners
• Define, refine, and document scalable processes for multifunctional and new team members

Senior OTA Vehicle Systems Engineer

• Define connected vehicle technical, security, privacy, safety, and regulatory requirements
• Own Ford cloud interface definitions and connectivity architecture requirements
• Define Ford Well-Known Signals, event models, signal mappings, enumerations, units, and expected vehicle behavior
• Maintain requirements through change-control and legal-review processes
• Communicate Ford feature expectations and technical requirements to suppliers
• Drive closure of feature gaps between Ford and supplier implementations
• Review supplier sequence diagrams, implementation proposals, and architectural responses
• Ensure supplier solutions align with Ford architecture and interfaces
• Define and govern Ford cloud integration requirements
• Own customer authorization, account-linking, VIN association, activation, and deactivation workflows
• Govern fleet-management, feature-package, and remote-command cloud services
• Define customer authorization, onboarding, disclaimers, setup wizard, UI/UX, profile synchronization, and user-management expectations
• Define privacy controls, consent requirements, data-sharing behaviors, regional compliance, and regulatory reporting requirements
• Establish governance for fleet-privacy and dual-consent frameworks
• Define OTA/MMOTA deployment requirements and strategies
• Own software-update content, rollout policies, and version governance
• Define cloud deployment requirements for emissions, battery-health, and regulatory data reporting
• Define End-of-Line provisioning, cloud registration, SyncP key allocation, supplier-feed integration, carrier provisioning, and SIM activation processes
• Define operational behavior for remote climate control, remote start, lock/unlock, vehicle health alerts, vehicle location, EV charging, panic alarms, and stolen vehicle services
• Establish command responses, status-reporting requirements, fleet telematics signals, events, and command capabilities
• Verify supplier implementation compliance with Ford architectures and requirements
• Validate signal mappings, telemetry behavior, status reporting, and cloud integrations
• Confirm regulatory, privacy, and customer experience requirements are satisfied
• Define fleet enrollment and feature-package management requirements
• Govern telematics payload definitions, data integrity, reporting expectations, and fleet remote-command authorization lifecycle

Feature System Engineer

• Architect and own the software update strategy for the ADAS system
• Define system requirements from concept through production using systems engineering principles
• Ensure alignment with the team's functional strategy and architecture
• Ensure ADAS systems meet corporate software update specifications, architecture requirements, networking standards, and diagnostic standards such as UDS (ISO 14229)
• Evaluate corporate specifications and architecture and identify further specification needs based on system architecture and ECU design
• Author specifications and behavioral models, including state diagrams and sequence diagrams
• Translate system-level use cases into implementable requirements for software and hardware teams
• Communicate technical requirements to D&R engineers, suppliers, Cloud Operations, and Systems teams
• Partner with software engineers to guide implementation and resolve design questions
• Lead or support anomaly investigations, identify root causes, and feed findings into architecture and specifications
• Define validation criteria for authored specifications
• Manage software update issue triage across the product lifecycle
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and functional safety counterparts to ensure rollback, integrity checks, and authentication meet ADAS safety and security requirements
• Maintain documentation of architecture decisions, specifications, and validation outcomes for traceability and knowledge transfer

ADAS Software Update Systems Engineer

• Lead definition and delivery of Retail AV Data Collection solutions supporting ADAS and automated-driving development, fleet monitoring, machine-learning data collection, regulatory compliance, and product improvement
• Translate stakeholder and customer use cases into system-level strategies, feature-level requirements, functional specifications, architecture concepts, and verification plans
• Lead hands-on systems engineering across vehicles, benches, simulation and playback environments, cloud/data pipelines, and connected fleet campaigns
• Gather and analyze stakeholder, customer, ADAS, AV, regulatory, privacy, and machine-learning use cases
• Decompose product requirements into use cases, feature specifications, system requirements, interfaces, constraints, and verification criteria
• Define recording triggers, signals, topics, recording durations, data quality, compute and storage budgets, data offload, privacy, consent, geofencing, and vehicle compatibility strategies
• Develop system-level test strategies, use cases, test cases, functional checks, and validation plans
• Coordinate with software and platform teams on requirements, defects, dependencies, risks, and release impacts
• Ensure designs address customer consent, privacy, legal constraints, geofencing, regional requirements, and regulatory data-recording needs
• Support data-collection request intake by clarifying use cases, signals, trigger logic, pipeline limitations, and required software or architecture changes
• Improve requirements quality, systems-engineering processes, test automation, configuration management, release readiness, and stakeholder communication
• Make technical recommendations, communicate lessons learned, and keep engineering leadership informed of status, timing, risks, and technical issues
• Mentor engineers and contribute to reusable systems-engineering standard work, documentation, and technical training
• Collaborate with software, platform, vehicle integration, quality, data engineering, ADAS, AV, product, legal, and regulatory teams

Senior Systems Engineer – Retail Data

• Lead completion and submission of the conceptual feature intake form and drive the feature through gate reviews to secure formal Feature Owner assignment
• Engage stakeholders to define problem statements, lifecycle contexts, INCOSE/EARS-compliant needs, use cases, and measurable success criteria
• Define system boundaries, external interfaces, internal architecture, behavioral models, and interface specifications with full traceability
• Lead functional safety, DFMEA, cybersecurity, and physical safety analyses; define prevention controls for critical failure modes
• Formalize system requirements with traceability and defined verification methods
• Validate requirements against stakeholder needs and MoE/MoP thresholds, resolve gaps, and hand off the logical requirements package to the Mechatronics application team
• Lead functional safety-to-DFMEA cross-validation and participate in joint system/subsystem sign-off
• Guide physical prototype strategy, approve builds against signed-off design intent, and provide technical guidance during test planning and execution
• Act as technical authority and escalation point for architecture, requirements, and DFMEA decisions
• Direct and prioritize modeling and testing support requests and represent Core SE at design reviews, program gateways, sign-off boards, and DFMEA workshops

Mechatronics Systems Engineer

• Analyze customer and internal requirements and specifications and translate them into optical designs
• Evaluate and set up measurement systems
• Understand the design and manufacturing of display modules and components
• Perform field failure analysis and evaluate solutions for production and product issues
• Use CAD interfaces including NX and CATIA
• Set up End of Line (EOL) processes for display manufacturing
• Develop new automotive display technologies with Tier 2 suppliers, including POLED, Quantum Dot, and FALD
• Collaborate between internal engineering teams and external customers
• Support customer discussions on future product definitions, requirement refinement, and issue resolution
• Take design ownership and propose solutions to maximize system performance
• Work with local customers, local team members, and research engineers from Korea and/or in Korea
• Support projects with headquarters research engineers remotely or at the business site
• Report to the Engineering Manager of Infotainment Displays
• Work on automotive HUD, ICS, and display products

Senior Systems Engineer – OLED

• Define and deliver flash-programming requirements and solutions for advanced mechatronic systems across GM vehicle programs
• Lead programming strategies for development, manufacturing, OTA, and service environments
• Partner with software, hardware, diagnostics, cybersecurity, manufacturing, and vehicle-integration teams
• Develop and improve programming tools, diagnostics, scripts, and automated tests
• Analyze programming issues, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions
• Maintain requirements, test coverage, traceability, and technical documentation
• Establish reusable standards and practices to improve programming quality, efficiency, and scalability
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and roadmap direction for future programming capabilities
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on complex programming tasks
• Define and track KPIs for flash-programming quality and efficiency

Systems Engineer jobs in Michigan