Technical Solutions Engineer – Leader

Ford Motor Company

Senior Technical Solutions Engineer leading technical solutions for Ford Energy sales team and customers. Responsible for optimizing configurations and ensuring project compliance with standards.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeRemote • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $141,700 - $268,300 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the final technical authority with sign-off for all bids, ensuring alignment with the subsidiary's technical risk and governance standards.
Embed a "Safety-First" culture into the solution design phase, ensuring all proposed configurations meet or exceed industry safety and regulatory standards (UL/NFPA).
Own the intake, triage, and prioritization of customer requests, ensuring effective workload balance across the technical solutions team.
Formalize the "closed-loop" process, ensuring customer technical requirements, market trends, and field learnings are systematically fed back into the Product Roadmap.
Prioritize "Design for Serviceability" by ensuring sales configurations focus on long-term asset reliability, uptime, and ease of maintenance, rather than just the initial sale.
Provide clear technical recommendations and risk assessments to support long-term commercial strategy and bid positioning.
Serve as the primary technical interface for internal and external executives, representing Ford Energy in high-stakes customer reviews and strategic business discussions.
Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of technical solutions engineers, establishing a culture of technical rigor and commercial urgency.
Establish and continuously improve technical solutions workflows and governance to increase speed, quality, and consistency of executive-level proposals.
Oversee the technical scoping and configuration of BESS projects, including system sizing (MW/MWh) and site layout optimizations.
Interface with simulation teams to model battery degradation and financial performance (LCOS/NPV) based on specific customer use cases.
Ensure a seamless technical handoff from the solutioning phase to delivery and commissioning, capturing lessons learned for recurrence prevention.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
10+ years of experience in Applications Engineering, Quality Assurance, Systems Engineering, or Product Development within the energy or automotive sectors.
3+ years of leadership experience managing engineering teams.
Demonstrated experience interfacing with executive-level stakeholders and driving technical governance.
Strong understanding of power systems, batteries, and battery management systems.

Benefits

Comp & perks

competitive compensation package including performance-based bonuses
Ford vehicle discounts

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Hard Skills & Tools

Applications EngineeringQuality AssuranceSystems EngineeringProduct Developmentpower systemsbatteriesbattery management systemstechnical risk assessmenttechnical governancesystem sizing

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingteam developmentcommunicationstakeholder managementworkload balancetechnical rigorcommercial urgencyproblem-solvingcustomer engagement