Staff Embedded Controls Engineer, Thermal
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Long Beach • California • United States
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About the role
- Create control/estimation algorithms to support a broad thermal management scope: climate control, battery, powertrain, heat pump/refrigeration system, car computers, and more.
- Deliver high-quality C code in a real-time embedded environment.
- Write unit, SIL, and HIL test cases to ensure proper functionality.
- Work closely with test and integration engineers to debug your control algorithms at the bench and vehicle level.
- Adapt or create reduced-order thermal systems models to suit control-focused development/refinement workflows.
- Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineers to execute control strategies.
- Develop fault detections and reaction strategies for seamless customer experience.
- Develop and continuously improve models to compare alternative control algorithms quantitatively across many key metrics (cost, efficiency, performance, complexity, etc.)
- Monitor fleet telemetry and use data analysis to close the loop on software quality and help ideate new software features.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Computer Science, with evidence of exceptional ability, or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience in developing control algorithms and applying them to physical systems.
- High proficiency in programming experience using Python
- Strong foundational background in control theory, system dynamics, and model-based design.
- Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills
- Experience with JIRA/Confluence or a similar system for tracking inputs/results.
- Hands-on experience in hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.
- Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including circuit analysis and design
- Even better, you may have...
- A strong understanding of linear systems, state-estimation/observers is a plus.
- Familiarity with thermal control algorithms, and experience implementing it on an embedded system.
- Familiarity with refrigeration systems (compressors, heat exchangers, valves, sensors, charge and oil management) and HVAC systems.
- Experience with automotive communication protocols and stacks (CAN, LIN, ethernet, UDS, etc.)
- Knowledge of microcontroller peripherals such as ADC, GPIO, PWM, and SPI, and experience in sensors and digital signal processing
- Experience with data management tools / using fleet data to guide design.
- Proficiency in C and C++ and scripting skills in at least one common language (Python, Perl, Shell)
- Experience developing control algorithms for thermal systems using modeling tools of various scales (Python, MATLAB/Simulink, or similar)
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
CC++Pythoncontrol algorithmsthermal control algorithmsmodel-based designdata analysishardware bring-upsystem debuggingcode optimization
Soft Skills
collaborative mindsetcommunication skills
Certifications
Master’s degree in electrical engineeringMaster’s degree in mechanical engineeringMaster’s degree in computer science