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Staff Electrical Design Concept Engineer

Ford Motor Company
Palo Alto, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 Sept 2025

About the role

What you’ll do… 

 

  • Electrical Design – This would include schematic and layout of key electrical boards as well as providing guidance to OEMs on executing designs. 
  • Bring Up and validation – Bring up designs done in house and at OEM. Test designs for reliability and validity. Implement changes to address issues found. 
  • Rapid Prototyping – Create quick simple designs to execute design vision of the studio team using off the shelf parts. Understand tradeoffs being made for velocity and mitigate risks that impact team progress. 
  • System Integration – Work with other engineering teams to integrate electrical designs into our vehicles. 
  • Influence design decisions - Help define electrical architecture and execution. 

 

 

You’ll have… 

 

· Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering 

· 3+ years of experience with board design 

· Experience working with Altium eCAD tools 

· Experience working with Contract manufacturers and OEMs 

· Knowledge of DC/DC converters, Transmission lines, Common Data buses, Analog circuits, Board design and layout best practices 

Even better, you may have… 

 

· 10+ years experience with Systems/HW architectures experience 

· Python scripting experience 

· C/C++ coding experience 

· Design experience with micro processors and encoders 

· Knowledge in display and camera technologies 

· Experience using SI tools such as hyperlink 

· Experience in technical leadership 

· Experience in automotive design (AECxxx, CAN, LIN)

 

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Company

Ford Motor Company

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