48V Power Controls Engineer

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is seeking a 48V Power Controls Engineer. In this role, you will own key aspects of the 48V powernet control system for advanced vehicle electrical architectures. You will develop system-level control requirements and test cases to ensure robust low-voltage power supply performance. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure system coherence from concept through release.

Responsibilities:

• Lead development and ownership of 48V powernet control strategies for vehicle low-voltage power supply systems.
• Define, implement, and release system-level control requirements for operating mode management, power generation, load management, energy management, fault management, and calibration strategies.
• Develop requirements and test cases covering normal operation, degraded operation, and corner-case user scenarios.
• Analyze system interactions across power supply hardware, software controls, vehicle electrical architecture, and dependent vehicle systems.
• Evaluate charge margin, voltage stability, current stability, load behavior, and system-level energy balance.
• Support system-level simulation and validation activities, including SIL, HIL, breadboard, and vehicle-level testing.
• Lead requirements decomposition, traceability, and alignment with functional safety, diagnostics, DFMEA, and validation activities.
• Triage system-level issues and drive clear problem statements for subsystem teams to support root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with software development, power supply hardware, electrical architecture, diagnostics, and validation teams to deliver coherent system solutions.
• Support integration of 48V power systems across vehicle platforms while ensuring alignment with architecture, safety, diagnostic, and validation requirements.
• Lead decision matrices and technical trade-off assessments to address system issues and recommend solutions.
• Lead technical documentation, system specifications, design reviews, and release readiness reviews.
• Operate effectively within an Agile development environment, including Jira, PI planning, sprint planning, risk management, and dependency tracking.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Automotive Systems, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience in automotive system, hardware, or software engineering development.
• 3+ years experience with ICE and xEV low-voltage power supply architectures.
• 3+ years of experience developing or supporting system-level requirements, system or software DFMEA, test cases, and validation plans.
• 3+ years of experience with Agile development practices and DevOps tools such as Jira.

Benefits:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.