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Senior Staff Engineer – Battery and High Voltage Control Systems
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Long Beach • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Define and author BMS, power converter, and HV controller requirements & interfaces
- Develop and drive the design and architecture for BMS and power conversion controls software
- Define fault detection and fault management strategies
- Design, develop, and validate various high voltage and battery control strategies
- Review BMS and HV system functional safety architecture and requirements
- Review firmware, battery cell & pack tests, and validation results
- Develop HV and battery system models and simulations
- Collaborate with software, vehicle systems, testing, and validation teams to implement and refine controls, and integrate feedback from field and lab data.
- Support board bring up, testing, and battery pack and vehicle integration efforts.
- Support HV ECU hardware design and component selection.
- Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis efforts to identify and resolve controls-related issues and implement corrective actions to improve system performance and reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, related degree, or equivalent experience
- A minimum of 10 years developing BMS and HV controls for automotive or mission-critical systems
- Solid understanding of EV high voltage, power conversion, and battery management systems architectures
- Experience developing systems compliant to ISO26262
- Strong knowledge of lithium-ion battery cell (LFP, NCA, and NMC) and pack design technologies.
- Solid knowledge of automotive regulatory and safety standards related to high voltage and battery systems.
- Understanding of lithium-ion batteries models, including equivalent-circuit, thermal, and physics-based models.
- Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink or similar tools for battery systems modeling and simulation.
- Excellent problem solving, hands-on testing, technical writing, and presentation skills
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
BMS requirementspower converter designHV controller designfault detection strategiesbattery control strategiesfunctional safety architectureHV and battery system modelingtroubleshootingroot cause analysisISO26262 compliance
Soft skills
problem solvingtechnical writingpresentation skillscollaborationleadership
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
