Job ID

63837

Category

PD Operations and Quality

Location

Ottawa, Canada

Work Type

Hybrid

Ford of Canada’s operations include a national headquarters, three vehicle assembly and engine manufacturing plants, three parts distribution centres, and three Connectivity and Innovation centres. Ford employs approximately 6,500 people in Canada, while an additional 20,000 people are employed in the approximately 430 Ford and Ford-Lincoln dealerships across the country. For more information, please visit www.careers.ford.com and www.ford.ca .

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position...

The successful candidate will lead a team of embedded developers, and drive overall Telematics Control Unit (TCU) organizational engineering excellence , enabling the delivery of high-quality TCU software releases as part of the Connectivity Platform organization. This role combines technical leadership, strategic direction, and people development to ensure scalable, reliable, and customer-focused solutions.

What you'll do...

The primary responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to:

• Provide technical leadership, strategic direction, and operational guidance to the development team.
• Help define and drive the technical roadmap for TCU software feature and platform development.
• Oversee implementation of key TCU features, including software updates, stolen vehicle recovery, and diagnostics.
• Drive process improvements, engineering best practices, and operational excellence.
• Establish and maintain high standards for code quality, debugging capabilities, and code coverage.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, systems, hardware, security) to deliver integrated solutions.
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders and leadership.
• Recruit, hire, onboard, and mentor team members; foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate risks; proactively resolve bottlenecks to ensure on-time delivery.
• Own end-to-end TCU feature delivery and ensure features meet customer expectations for reliability, performance, and security.

You'll have...

**Education-**Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study.

Experience-

• 10+ years' hands-on embedded software development experience in C/C++ and object-oriented design.
• 7+ years' experience leading embedded software development teams.
• Proven track record of designing software architecture, managing system integration, and debugging complex distributed systems through at least 2 complete product lifecycles.

Even better, you may have...

**Education-**Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study.

Experience-

• Experience with modern development, CI/CD, and collaboration tools, including SonarQube (static analysis), gcov (code coverage), Jenkins (CI/CD and job scheduling), JIRA (work tracking), and GitHub (version control).
• Experience with automotive embedded systems and software validation/testing
• Experience with embedded Linux operating systems
• Experience applying AI/ML techniques to software development and engineering
• Experience with cloud platforms and data analytics/visualization tools

This posting is for an existing vacancy within our team.

We thank all candidates for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Successful candidates will be required to provide proof of degree completion for the highest level of education attained. If the degree was obtained from a school outside of Canada, an Education Credential Assessment report showing Canadian equivalency is also required.

Ford of Canada is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a culturally diverse workforce. Accommodations for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes, where needed, are available upon request. Please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require.

Candidates for this position must be legally entitled to work in Canada. Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, does not sponsor work permit applications.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.

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