Abdul Salam Abdul Karim

💡 Fun fact: Abdul has spent more than two decades watching vehicles evolve from mostly mechanical machines to intelligent, sensor-driven computers on wheels.

Abdul Salam Abdul Karim is an automotive electronics and embedded systems engineer with more than 20 years of experience developing safety-critical hardware and system architectures for advanced mobility platforms. He currently serves as a Lead ADAS Platform Hardware Systems Engineer at Ford Motor Company, contributing to advanced vehicle architecture platforms supporting automated driving and next-generation intelligent sensing systems. His expertise spans automotive ECU design, system integration of ADAS ECUs with multi-sensor platforms, functional safety (ISO 26262), electrification systems, sensor integration, and high-reliability embedded hardware development. Over the course of his career, Abdul has contributed to multiple global automotive programs across ADAS, intelligent lighting, battery management systems, and power electronics.

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