# 48V Power Controls Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Allen Park, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $85,400-$192,900
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Automotive Systems
- Agile development
- Jira
- Power supply systems
- System-level control
- Validation plans

### Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering
- Control Systems
- Hands-on experience with system requirements development
- Validation support
- Issue investigation

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