ADAS Interior Perception Systems Engineer

Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford **Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)** team! Utilizing Design Thinking and User Experience methods, you will work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We are seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We are looking for a **statistically fluent systems engineer** to define and verify performance targets for interior perception systems. Because these systems interact directly with the driver, consistency of feature experience across a diverse customer population is a core design objective. This role exists to define, measure, and continuously improve that consistency. **What you'll do...** - **Define quantitative performance targets.** Translate feature-level requirements into verifiable perception subsystem KPIs (e.g., detection and false-positive rates, time-to-detect) and drive alignment on those targets with feature owners and senior leadership. - **Characterize system performance across the full range of customer and environmental noise factors** (occupant anthropometry, appearance variation, eyewear, lighting, sun load) and develop methodologies to drive consistent feature availability across our customer population. - **Design statistically efficient validation strategies** (design of experiments, stratified sampling, sequential testing, resampling-based confidence estimation) that characterize system robustness across interacting noise factors while making efficient use of test time and resources. - **Build application-agnostic performance and validation frameworks** that decouple core perception KPIs from vehicle-specific factors such as camera mounting position, interior geometry, and occupant position, enabling reuse across platforms. - **Define real-world usage profiles** and exposure models to project bench and track performance into expected field performance for a representative customer population. - Collaborate with feature systems engineers to define design objectives, functional requirements, and architectural decisions for driver engagement systems. - Partner directly with vendor technical leads and our hardware team to refine sensor and illuminator packaging requirements and propose system architecture modifications that reduce application sensitivity. - Represent the interior perception subsystem in cross-functional design reviews and support root cause analysis and statistical characterization of any field issues. **What success looks like in this role** - Within your first few months, you will have built relationships with feature owners, hardware engineers, validation leads, and key suppliers, and developed a working understanding of our current interior perception architecture and KPI landscape. - Within your first year, you will have led the definition of a platform-level KPI and validation framework that is adopted across multiple vehicle programs, and you will be the recognized internal authority on interior perception performance methodology. - Looking further out, you will shape how Ford approaches interior perception validation for the next generation of driver-assist features, and mentor a growing community of engineers contributing to that work. **You'll have...** - Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics/Statistics, or related field - 3+ years of experience decomposing high-level feature requirements into quantitative subsystem KPIs in automotive, aerospace, defense, medical devices, or a similarly safety-relevant domain - Demonstrated fluency in applied statistics – hypothesis testing, confidence and tolerance intervals, sample size justification, and reasoning about rare-event rates - Experience defining or executing validation strategies under finite test budgets - Strong communication skills–particularly the ability to explain and defend a…