Senior Power Management and Systems Architect

We are looking for a Senior Power Management and Systems Architect to help lead the transformation of our power management platform. In this role, you will architect the foundational platform strategy that powers an entire portfolio of current and next-generation vehicles, spanning Retail, Commercial, and Ford Pro customer bases.

You will own the end-to-end architecture of the Powernet system and act as the connective tissue between software, hardware, and cross-functional teams , ensuring that every layer of the platform works in concert to deliver a differentiated, reliable customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture and strategic direction of newer power management platform designed to scale across vehicle programs and customer segments.
• Serve as a key technical authority and mentor within the Power System Architecture team, shaping how the organization approaches system design, safety, and innovation.
• Act as the critical bridge between software, hardware, networking, and cross-functional leadership , as well as external engineering partners , ensuring the platform vision is executed with precision and coherence.
• Help modernize how systems engineering itself is done, bringing AI-driven tools and agile methods into a traditionally document-heavy discipline.

Platform Strategy & Layered Architecture

• Define and lead a technology platform development methodology that decouples core platform capabilities from underlying vehicle electrical architecture, enabling reuse and adaptability across diverse markets and vehicle programs.
• Partner with software architects to define the System Platform Layer, establishing clear goals, KPIs, and foundational capabilities for each architectural layer.
• Craft the strategy by which platform layers interoperate to deliver targeted feature- and experience-level outcomes, ensuring architectural coherence from silicon to software.
• Evaluate optimal allocation of platform functionality across hardware platforms, balancing system performance constraints against feature and experience KPIs.
• Define the strategy for deploying platform layers across the ECU landscape, ensuring middleware capabilities are abstracted, centrally governed, and portable across compute nodes.

Power System Architecture

• Own the development of the end-to-end Power System Architecture in close collaboration with feature, hardware, networking, and other cross-functional engineering teams.
• Continuously benchmark industry practices and emerging trends, assessing which cross-industry technologies and strategies are worth adapting into the platform.
• Set ambitious goals, KPIs, and target capabilities for the Power System Architecture that directly address known limitations in current designs.
• Define core power system capabilities across storage, generation, distribution, control, load management, and reliability.
• Drive the strategy for centralized vehicle state management and centralized vehicle energy management as foundational platform capabilities.
• Characterize vehicle power requirements across all lifecycle and operating modes, and establish strategies to ensure power budgets are met in each.
• Produce comprehensive High-Level Designs (HLDs) for the Powernet system , encompassing capabilities, use cases, functional allocation, interfaces, sequence diagrams, and failure mode avoidance.
• Establish the methodology for translating HLDs into system-level requirements and decomposing them into software and hardware requirements.
• Evaluate ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) requirements for key power system capabilities, ensuring safety-relevant functions are correctly classified and architected to meet their designated integrity level.
• Lead or closely support Functional Safety (FuSa) assessments of the Powernet architecture, ensuring hazard analysis, risk assessment, and safety goal allocation are properly reflected in system design and HLDs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (BS) in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline is required.
• Minimum of 10 years of total professional engineering experience, including at least 5 years of relevant experience in systems architecture, systems engineering, or power/electrical systems engineering , ideally within automotive or another complex, safety-critical industry.
• Demonstrated success architecting layered, platform-based systems that are decoupled from specific hardware or vehicle implementations, enabling reuse across programs and markets.
• Proven experience collaborating with software architects to define platform/middleware layers, including abstraction, centralized management, and multi-ECU deployment strategies.
• Deep technical grounding in power system fundamentals, including energy storage, generation, distribution, control systems, load management, and reliability engineering.