About the role

What will you do at Ford Motor Company?

You will own core platform firmware for a distributed embedded system of

multiple microcontrollers, building reusable drivers, services, and test

infrastructure on Zephyr RTOS. This is a platform-facing role. You'll close real

gaps across the stack, from standing up a device watchdog/supervision design, to

building driver test suites for our automotive Ethernet PHY driver, to hardening

real-time Ethernet and custom serial protocols, so application teams can build

on a stable, scalable foundation.

Which skills does this role require?

Embedded developmentC programmingZephyr RTOSFirmware testingAutomotive EthernetHardware-in-the-loopCircuit analysisPythonCMakeBazelUARTI2CSPISystem debuggingMicrocontrollersNetworking driversEmbedded SystemsFirmwareCEthernetPHYAutomotiveSConsUnit TestingIntegration TestingJIRAConfluenceSecure BootUDSDoIPCircuit AnalysisSystem DebuggingNetworkingSoftware FundamentalsPlatform EngineeringDistributed SystemsFault-handling

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