HIL Solutions & Automation Engineer – AI.

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.

We are seeking a proactive and skilled HIL Solutions & Automation Engineer to drive advanced test automation and AI-assisted validation workflows across our HIL test environments. In this role, you will bridge the gap between embedded hardware, simulation toolchains, and modern software engineering by developing intelligent tools for scenario generation, test coverage gap analysis, and closed-loop bench automation. You will work across dSPACE, CarMaker, and Python environments, integrating AI and REST APIs to accelerate validation velocity for ADAS, Chassis, and vehicle platform ECUs.

About the Team

Ford’s Verification & Validation (V&V) and Virtual Engineering teams are dedicated to accelerating the delivery of safe, reliable, and intelligent vehicle systems. We are building next-generation test automation and applied AI solutions to streamline test generation, simulation workflows, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation across core vehicle domains. You’ll join an agile team of engineers and innovators pioneering the future of smart mobility by working collaboratively, building reusable automation platforms, and transforming complex engineering requirements into executable test solutions.