# Battery Management Systems Hardware Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $137,010.00 - $192,246.60/yr
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress.

Join the Ford Product Development team as a Battery Management Systems Hardware Engineer. Utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods, you’ll work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers.

## Responsibilities

- Define and manage requirements and system-level design for BMS used in Ford’s next generation electrified vehicles.

- Lead and participate in design reviews and worst-case circuit analyses to validate system robustness.

- Perform circuit level design and schematic capture for BMS electronics, including component selection and tolerance analysis.

- Develop and run circuit and system simulations (SPICE, transient, worst case, and system level models) to validate functionality and margin.

- Support PCB layout and manufacturability: provide placement/routing guidance, review Gerbers, and ensure power distribution, thermal, and EMC considerations are addressed.

- Investigate warranty and quality returns; perform root cause analysis and implement product revisions to resolve field issues.

- Drive supplier investigations and corrective actions; develop and oversee specialized test methods to replicate and diagnose failure modes.

- Evaluate electrical system engineering alternatives across attributes such as cost, weight, packaging, quality, benchmarking, geometry creation, and functional performance.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and other Ford engineers to update requirements in response to system changes.

- Promote continuous improvement in designs, processes, and supplier quality controls.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

- 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

- 2 years of experience with each of the following skills:

- High voltage battery systems to support testing and design activities.

- PCB hardware design to develop, analyze, and test high voltage battery controllers.

- Designing battery management system controllers.

- Writing high quality requirements for battery management systems.

- 1 year of experience with PCB layout experience to complete the layout for the high voltage battery controllers.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

## Skills

### Required
- High voltage battery systems
- PCB hardware design
- Designing battery management system controllers
- Writing high quality requirements for battery management systems
- PCB layout

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