# Senior Electrical Distribution Integration Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Palo Alto
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $135,420-226,980
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

As an EDS Integration Engineer for the Advanced EV Team, you will be at the forefront of defining the "nervous system" for our next-generation Model e products. You will be responsible for the end-to-end vehicle-side electrical wire harness design and physical integration, serving as a critical link between architectural theory and vehicle reality. This role is essential to the development of a Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV), where you will optimize the intersection of hardware, software, and mechanical packaging. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the harness architecture is efficient, manufacturable, and robust, while remaining hands-on during lab-car and vehicle "bring-up" phases to troubleshoot and validate your designs.

**Responsibilities:**

- Drive the electrical wiring system design from concept to production, focusing on the transition toward Zonal power and data distribution to minimize mass and maximize vehicle efficiency.

- Architect and integrate diverse voltage platforms, leading wire sizing, fuse coordination, and terminal selection based on steady-state and transient power profiles to ensure robust power delivery.

- Design for signal integrity across the vehicle's data backbone, managing shielded circuits for ADAS sensors, Automotive Ethernet, and other high-bandwidth communication protocols.

- Partner with Subsystem engineers to establish harness partitioning and complexity strategies to minimize wire count, optimize cost, and reduce weight,critical metrics for EV range.

- Influence the design of grounding and network topologies while collaborating on Functional Safety (ISO 26262) assessments to ensure the EDS architecture supports safety-critical features.

- Develop logical and physical electrical schematics using professional ECAD tools (e.g., Capital, Zuken), owning the technical resolution of integration issues as they arise.

- Support Labcar and prototype vehicle builds as the primary lead for electrical bring-up, circuit troubleshooting, and validating system-level changes in a real-world environment.

- Review 2D drawings and 3D routing to ensure supplier readiness while investigating new harness technologies (e.g., busbars or automated manufacturing) to push the boundaries of EV design.

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a related technical field.

- 5+ years of experience in EDS design and development within the automotive, aerospace, or complex robotics industries.

- 5+ years of hands-on experience with professional EDS ECAD tooling (e.g., Mentor Capital, Zuken E3, or Vector Preevision).

- Proven experience in a mass-production environment, taking a product from initial concept through Job 1/launch.

- Deep understanding of Electrical Engineering fundamentals (Ohm’s Law, voltage drop, thermal management, and circuit protection).

**Preferred Requirements:**

- Advanced EV Expertise: Experience with High Voltage (HV) DC power distribution and the challenges of integrating diverse voltage architectures.

- Data Integrity: Familiarity with high-speed data requirements, including shielding, twisting, and connector selection for Automotive Ethernet or LVDS.

- Prototyping Skills: Experience with vehicle instrumentation (data loggers, current clamps, oscilloscopes) in a controlled lab or test-track environment.

- Agile Mindset: Familiarity with Confluence and Jira for task management in a fast-paced, iterative development cycle.

- Complexity Management: Demonstrated ability to manage high-variant harness architectures and "feature-to-pin" mapping.

- Analytical Rigor: Experience performing DFM (Design for Manufacturing) and DFMEA (Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) to ensure long-term reliability.

- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills with an eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic, high-performing team environment

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- EDS design and development
- Professional EDS ECAD tooling
- Mass-production environment
- Electrical Engineering fundamentals

### Nice to have
- Advanced EV Expertise
- Data Integrity
- Prototyping Skills
- Agile Mindset
- Complexity Management
- Analytical Rigor
- Communication

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