Completions Engineer
Fervo Energy
Staff Electrical Integration and Development Engineer
Ford Motor Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Long Beach • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Be the technical leader responsible for electrical integration, troubleshooting, and development of prototype test assets and vehicles
- Conceptualize, design, engineer, develop, and support the launch of next-generation vehicle platform architectures for electric vehicles
- Drive the electrical bring-up of prototype vehicles, ensuring seamless integration of all electrical systems and components
- Spearhead vehicle-level issue diagnosis and triage, utilizing first principles of electrical systems to identify and resolve issues
- Collaborate with hardware, software, and integration engineers to design and release mitigation strategies and clear vehicle issue roadblocks
- Lead electrical integration activities with manufacturing regarding electrical architecture and systems integration workstreams
- Create comprehensive release artifacts, diagrams, and documentation for platform electrical architectures
- Serve as single point of contact for electrical issues in vehicle, providing rapid response and expertise
- Coordinate with systems test teams to perform vehicle level testing and debugging, collecting and analyzing data and organizing cross-functional reviews
- Lead ongoing product development while applying lessons learned to optimize design of electrical systems for future vehicle programs
Requirements
- B.S in Electrical, Computer, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience working on complex electrical systems or electronics designs
- Strong understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals and ability to apply them to automotive concepts
- Proven experience in vehicle launch activities from prototype phase through mass production
- Proven debugging and diagnostic skills in electrical, mechanical, and software domains
- Highly skilled in low voltage systems development, electric vehicle system architecture, functional safety, and component level integration planning
- Experience with microprocessor-based system design and development
- Familiarity with common communication interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, and Ethernet
- Excellent teamwork, problem-solving, communication, and project management skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment
- A systems approach to design and development
- (Preferred) Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or related fields
- (Preferred) Hands-on experience with electrical test equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, signal generators, power supplies, etc.)
- (Preferred) Experience with requirements capture in requirements management software platforms (JAMA, etc.)
- (Preferred) Experience with hardware development from concept through production launch in automotive or similar
- (Preferred) Experience with Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA)
- (Preferred) Experience with electrical / electro-mechanical devices involving networked microcontrollers and embedded software
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States; verification of employment eligibility required at time of hire
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
- Visa sponsorship available
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
electrical integrationtroubleshootingprototype test assetsvehicle platform architectureslow voltage systems developmentelectric vehicle system architecturemicroprocessor-based system designdebuggingdiagnostic skillsfunctional safety
Soft skills
teamworkproblem-solvingcommunicationproject managementcross-functional collaborationsystems approach to design
Certifications
B.S in Electrical EngineeringB.S in Computer EngineeringB.S in Mechanical EngineeringMaster’s Degree in Electrical EngineeringMaster’s Degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
