Embedded Software Engineer (Engineer 3 level)

Job Title Embedded Software Engineer (Engineer 3 level), listed in the requisition as “Software Engineer (3) - Core Engineer 3”

Location: Dearborn / Allen Park, MI (Ford IT HQ-C, Fairlane Circle area)

Work model: Hybrid, 4 days onsite per week

Duration: Approximately 12 months

Role Overview

This is a hands-on embedded engineering role for someone who writes, debugs, and validates low-level software that runs on real hardware. The engineer will turn system and software requirements into Embedded C code and MATLAB/Simulink models, then prove it works through unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. Day to day, they will work with hardware, controls, systems, and test teams to track down root causes and ship reliable releases. The combination of Embedded C + MATLAB/Simulink + embedded testing is the hard-to-find core of this search, and the customer has been explicit that general software, web, or pure QA backgrounds are not a fit.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, write, debug, integrate, and maintain Embedded C software for hardware-connected applications
• Build and maintain MATLAB/Simulink models and algorithms driven by system and software requirements
• Convert system, functional, and software requirements into embedded designs and working algorithms
• Run unit, integration, and system-level testing, including HIL test scenarios, and analyze the results
• Perform low-level debugging across software, hardware, and integration problems
• Develop and troubleshoot CAN and LIN communication software and support diagnostics and NVM functionality
• Perform root-cause analysis on test failures and implement fixes
• Partner with hardware, systems, controls, software, and test engineers, and support requirements traceability, test planning, defect tracking, and release activities

Required Qualifications

Experience:

• 4+ years of hands-on embedded software development
• 6+ years of overall IT experience, consistent with Engineer 3 level
• Demonstrated unit and integration testing of embedded software
• Experience debugging embedded software and investigating low-level issues
• Experience translating system and technical requirements into designs, algorithms, and implementation
• Practical experience in at least one additional programming language, or advanced proficiency in a primary language
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field

Technical Skills:

• Embedded C (strong, hands-on) (hard to find in combination with the items below)
• MATLAB/Simulink development, modeling, or algorithm implementation (hard to find)
• Embedded software testing (unit and integration)
• Low-level embedded debugging
• Algorithm development and implementation

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related field
• Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing and hardware/software integration
• Automotive embedded systems experience
• CAN and LIN protocols
• Automotive diagnostics
• NVM / non-volatile memory
• Requirements management and traceability
• Embedded test automation
• Debugging with embedded and low-level development tools
• Direct collaboration with hardware, controls, systems, and test teams
• MATLAB/Simulink-based algorithm development and validation
• AUTOSAR (adjacent)
• UDS / ISO 14229 diagnostics (adjacent)
• MISRA C compliance (adjacent)
• dSPACE or similar HIL platforms (adjacent)