Staff Power Electronics Controls Engineer

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

What you'll do...
• Develop cutting edge and high-quality firmware for next-gen power electronics applications (DC/DC, AC/DC, and V2X)
• Develop detailed system simulation to verify control firmware.
• Validate, test and tune controller functionality &performance.
• Write control system and test specifications.
• Specification, design, implementation, and testing of both bare metal and RTOS low-level software for energy management and powertrain controls applications.
• Develop embedded software from low-level base software to application modules.
• Design and specify interfaces between application software and firmware.
• Develop multicore, timing-critical software architectures.
• Work with/resolve ambiguity in requirements/specifications/designs.
• Create elegant, efficient real-time software components and interfaces.
• Develop software component testing methodologies and implementations to ensure maturity/stability/release readiness.
• Work with hardware and debuggers at a bench and HIL level to verify software operation.
• Design ISO26262-compliant software.
• Instrument and profile software to identify opportunities for optimization on the submodule and system level.
• Early phases of firmware development will focus on hardware validation, labcar testing, and setting up the automation framework for a unit. SIL and HIL testing.
• Develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions.
• Support controller hardware specification.

You'll have...
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, experience with evidence of exceptional ability, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in embedded software design
• High proficiency with embedded C
• Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills
• Experience with JIRA/Confluence or a similar system for tracking inputs/results.
• Strong knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including circuit analysis and design.
• Thorough understanding of power electronics topologies and control strategies.
• Experience modeling control systems using MATLAB/Simulink, PLECS or similar.
• Deep understanding of digital control theory.
• Ability to read and interpret component datasheets, PCB schematics and layout design.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate complex technical concepts.
• Ability to deliver high-quality C code in a real-time embedded environment.
• Proficiency in a variety of embedded architectures, from bare metal to RTOS implementations, as well as a deep understanding of modern multi-core 32-bit embedded controller peripherals and architecture.

Even better, you may have...
• Master’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering (power electronics emphasis preferred)
• Experience in low-level driver development and RTOS integration.
• Experience with software build tools like Bazel, Scons, Cmake etc.
• Experience with fundamental hardware components on PCB and their analysis tools. 
• Ability to write testing scripts for using scripting languages (Python)
• Fluent in software fundamentals including software design and maintainability. 
• Hands-on experience in hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.
• Hands-on experience with board rework and components soldering.
• Experience setting up and using HV test & controls equipment (e.g. grid simulator, HV loads/sources, power analyzer, frequency response analyzer, etc.)

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

 

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