Autonomous Mobility Solutions Engineer
Ford Motor Company
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- Location
- Redford, MI
- Work style
- On-site
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 28
- 2 days ago
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About the company
Ford Motor Company
Automotive · 10,001+ employees
What you'll do
- Put vendor platforms through software and hardware conformance
- Validate platforms against real plant conditions
- Launch platforms on the floor with MP&L and plant operations
What you need
- 3–5+ years in logistics automation, technological feasibility mapping, manufacturing systems, or equipment validation and launch.
- Standards Expertise: Familiarity with ANSI/RIA R15.08, ISO 3691-4, UL 3100, and the VDA 5050 communication standard.
- Familiarity and hands-on in industrial networking MQTT protocols, (TCP/IP architectures), PLC communications.
- Working understanding of autonomous mobility systems - navigation, localization, fleet management and traffic orchestration - sufficient to validate behavior and troubleshoot credibly.
- Experience validating or launching automated equipment in a production environment, including test planning and execution.
- Plant-floor troubleshooting ability - able to read logs, isolate a fault across system boundaries and tell a real defect from a test artifact.
- Ability and willingness to travel (5-10%) to USA, Canada and Mexico plants as required.
- Experience deploying autonomous mobility or material-handling systems in high-volume manufacturing.
- Robotics & Software Stack: Competency with ROS/ROS2, Linux environments, Python/C++
- Familiarity with plant logistics: PFEP, MHE, kitting, line-side delivery, and route design.
- Familiarity with ISO 3691-4, ANSI/RIA R15.08, ISO 13849, and VDA 5050.
- Familiarity with Ford GVOSS, GME-707, GPDS, safety, and cybersecurity requirements.
- Exposure to autonomous or driverless programs and shared-floor automated traffic.
- Experience with virtual commissioning, PLC safety, or industrial networking.
- Experience with reporting tools such as Power BI or analysis using Python or SQL.
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Build once, scale everywhere — starting with the robots that move material through Ford’s plants. ATP’s FORGE vertical is deploying AMR fleets across our most advanced logistics operations, and this role decides what’s ready to run. You’ll put vendor platforms through software and hardware conformance, validate them against real plant conditions, and launch them on the floor with MP&L and plant operations. What you prove at one plant becomes the standard at the next.