Hardware Development Engineer-Sight Vertical

About the company

Ford Motor Company

Automotive · 10,001+ employees

What you'll do

• Develop cutting-edge solutions in manufacturing intelligence and build products to solve problems in factories.

What you need

• <span lang="EN-GB">Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">5+ years of hands-on experience specifying, testing or deploying industrial cameras, machine vision hardware, industrial sensors and data-acquisition hardware, or edge compute devices.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Working knowledge of industrial networking concepts — Ethernet/GigE, network switches, jumbo frames and packet-level troubleshooting — and of protocols including Dynamic DNS, DHCP and TCP/IP.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Familiarity with safety and regulatory certification processes (UL, cUL, CE) for electrical and electronic hardware.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Experience with messaging and integration protocols common in industrial vision systems (for example MQTT) and PLC interfacing concepts.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Strong cross-functional communication skills; comfortable working with software engineers, product managers and plant-floor personnel.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Experience retrofitting hardware onto in-production manufacturing equipment without disrupting output.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Fluent professional English.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Direct experience with industrial PCs and NVIDIA products for AI applications.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Experience supporting hardware fleets at scale across multiple manufacturing sites.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Familiarity with cloud image storage and retention pipelines (for example GCP) as they relate to hardware warranty and data lifecycle policy.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Manufacturing or automotive plant-floor experience.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Experience developing and governing hardware standards — device, BOM and installation standards, distinct from controls standards.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Experience with parametric condition monitoring — vibration, current, temperature, pressure or energy metering — and its acquisition hardware.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Familiarity with OT network segmentation and plant-floor connectivity constraints.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Additional European language (Spanish or German).</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Standard hardware specifications and bills of material exist for the major Sight deployment patterns and are actively used.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">New deployments require less bespoke plant hardware engineering because approved patterns are available and trusted.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Camera, sensor, edge and connectivity failures reduce over time because root causes are corrected through standards and fleet actions.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Hardware evidence supports TRL and MRL progression with repeatable test results and clear compliance documentation.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Fleet inventory, firmware, certificate, warranty and end-of-life risks are visible and actively managed.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Launch and Deployment Engineers, Product Managers and plant teams can apply hardware standards without relying on one-off expert judgement.</span>
• <span lang="EN-GB">Hardware choices support both Sense and Vision product needs while avoiding unnecessary duplication across the portfolio.</span>

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