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In this position... Success in this role requires a leader who is centered on product excellence, engineering rigor, technical execution, and a bias for action. You will operate in a fast-paced and highly cross-functional environment, partnering across engineering, finance, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain to ensure platform hardware is defined, sourced, released, validated, and delivered in support of program milestones. This role has significant organizational impact. You will drive resolution of complex hardware risks, influence platform-level decisions, and ensure alignment between program objectives, cost, timing, quality, and manufacturing readiness. What you'll do... • Manage and drive resolution of electrical hardware and software risks, technical challenges, change control, and cost. • Lead team direction through engineering gateways, financial milestones, and industrialization from pre-program through Job 1, acting as liaison between SIT, Finance, STA, Manufacturing, and NML leadership teams. • Collaborate with Functional D&Rs, hardware teams, software teams, and TPMs to ensure all work supporting program content is completed on time and with quality. • Ensure all electrical hardware is sourced, released, validated, and delivered in support of program timing. • Support the DV process by driving DFMEA development, leading hardware audits and reviews, ensuring proper classification, test planning, vehicle requests, and vehicle availability. • Spearhead ECU part updates for all platform breadboards and preproduction builds at the build site. Work with D&R Engineers, SITs, suppliers, New Models, MP&L, and other stakeholders to organize and lead hardware update events. Ensure all required part-level and vehicle-level updates are completed on time and with quality in support of build timing. You'll have... • 10+ years of experience in automotive hardware engineering, technical program management, platform engineering, electrical/electronic systems, vehicle architecture, or a closely related technical field. • Demonstrated experience leading complex hardware programs or platform initiatives from early concept through engineering milestones, validation, sourcing, and production readiness. • Experience managing or providing technical leadership to engineering teams, including coaching, prioritization, issue resolution, and cross-functional alignment. • Strong understanding of automotive hardware development processes, including sourcing, release, validation, BOM management, DFMEA, design reviews, change control, and build support. • Experience working with ECUs, electrical/electronic architectures, platform hardware, vehicle integration, or highly integrated vehicle features. • Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and drive closure on complex technical and business issues. • Strong communication skills with the ability to influence engineering teams, program leaders, finance partners, manufacturing teams, suppliers, and senior stakeholders. • Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with business judgment, including cost, quality, complexity, timing, and strategic platform considerations. Even better, you may have... • Experience with Ford engineering systems, processes, milestone reviews, AIMs, Jira, change control, CNE DF, PSTs, or related governance forums. • Experience supporting vehicle builds, preproduction events, breadboards, ECU updates, or launch readiness activities. • Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams through high-pressure program timing, technical risk, and launch-critical issue resolution. You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply! 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? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including: • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases • Tuition assistance • Established and active employee resource groups • Paid time off for individual and team community service • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time. This position is a leadership level 4. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value. For more information on salary and benefits, click here: fordcareers.co Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660. This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #LI-WC2

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What you'll do...
Manage and drive resolution of electrical hardware and software risks, technical challenges, change control, and cost.
Lead team direction through engineering gateways, financial milestones, and industrialization from pre-program through Job 1, acting as liaison between SIT, Finance, STA, Manufacturing, and NML leadership teams.
Collaborate with Functional D&Rs, hardware teams, software teams, and TPMs to ensure all work supporting program content is completed on time and with quality.
Ensure all electrical hardware is sourced, released, validated, and delivered in support of program timing.
Support the DV process by driving DFMEA development, leading hardware audits and reviews, ensuring proper classification, test planning, vehicle requests, and vehicle availability.
You'll have...
10+ years of experience in automotive hardware engineering, technical program management, platform engineering, electrical/electronic systems, vehicle architecture, or a closely related technical field.
Demonstrated experience leading complex hardware programs or platform initiatives from early concept through engineering milestones, validation, sourcing, and production readiness.
Experience managing or providing technical leadership to engineering teams, including coaching, prioritization, issue resolution, and cross-functional alignment.
Strong understanding of automotive hardware development processes, including sourcing, release, validation, BOM management, DFMEA, design reviews, change control, and build support.
Experience working with ECUs, electrical/electronic architectures, platform hardware, vehicle integration, or highly integrated vehicle features.
Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and drive closure on complex technical and business issues.
Strong communication skills with the ability to influence engineering teams, program leaders, finance partners, manufacturing teams, suppliers, and senior stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with business judgment, including cost, quality, complexity, timing, and strategic platform considerations.
Even better, you may have...
Experience with Ford engineering systems, processes, milestone reviews, AIMs, Jira, change control, CNE DF, PSTs, or related governance forums.
Experience supporting vehicle builds, preproduction events, breadboards, ECU updates, or launch readiness activities.
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams through high-pressure program timing, technical risk, and launch-critical issue resolution.
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

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