Staff Hardware Validation Engineer

Ford

Palo Alto, CA, United States
$146,520-276,600 py
Hybrid
Mechatronic hardware validation
Test environment bring-up
Design for testability (dft)
Ford is seeking a Staff Hardware Validation Engineer in Palo Alto, CA, for a hybrid role that involves defining validation strategies for complex mechatronic hardware across multiple vehicle product lines. The position requires extensive experience in hardware validation and test equipment architecture, focusing on ensuring hardware reliability and scalability

Job Summary

  • In this high-impact role, you will define the validation strategy and technical roadmaps for complex mechatronic hardware across multiple vehicle product lines.
  • You will bridge the gap between mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering, ensuring that our hardware architectures are robust, scalable, and validated to the highest rigorous standards.
  • As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home?

Matching Summary

Match Score: 85

Ford is seeking a Staff Hardware Validation Engineer in Palo Alto, CA, for a hybrid role that involves defining validation strategies for complex mechatronic hardware across multiple vehicle product lines. The position requires extensive experience in hardware validation and test equipment architecture, focusing on ensuring hardware reliability and scalability.

Salary

$146,520-276,600

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Mechatronic hardware validation
  • Test environment bring-up
  • Design for testability (DFT)
  • Hardware/software integration
  • Failure mode analysis
  • External supplier management

Nice-to-have

  • Customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, data-driven
  • Agile team of doers
  • Building a better world
  • Correlating physical test data with simulations

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent
  • 5+ years of experience in hardware validation
  • 5+ years of experience in test equipment architecture
  • Proven track record of defining test limits
  • Experience leading technical projects

Work Rights

Not specified

Sponsorship: available

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