Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out.

Responsibilities

Create control/estimation algorithms for various body control features like window control, closure system, and lighting.

Lead the design and integration of various body controls hardware components on electrical test assets such as benches, bucks, labcars, and vehicles.

Collaborate with software integration teams to bring up core functions and broadcast software level requirements to electrical hardware and systems teams.

Understand functional safety principles and participate in functional safety analyses of complex vehicle subsystems.

Develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions, including low power modes.

Spearhead body controls feature development, working cross-functionally with hardware, software, architecture, and many other teams to author feature boundary diagrams and validation strategies.

Author subsystem block diagrams and lead subsystem reviews through all vehicle program development phases

Early phases of firmware development will focus on hardware validation, labcar testing, and setting up the automation framework for unit, SIL and HIL testing.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Computer Science, with evidence of exceptional ability, or equivalent experience.

7+ years of experience on electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.

7+ years of experience with Vehicle Network Protocols such as CAN, LIN & Automotive Ethernet

Strong EE fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, signal generators, power supplies, etc.)

7+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools for automotive, aerospace, or similar field.

Experience and working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, battery technologies, software/hardware tool development, motor calibration technologies, OBD calibration, functional safety, network, and diagnostics process

Experience with creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning all test results.

Even better, you may have...

Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills

Experience in driver development and RTOS integration.

Experience with software build tools like Bazel, Scons, Cmake etc.

Experience with fundamental hardware components on PCB and their analysis tools.

Ability to write testing scripts for using scripting languages (Python)

Fluent in software fundamentals including software design and maintainability.

Hands-on experience in hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.

Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including circuit analysis and design

XML job scraping automation by YubHub

Responsibilities:

Integrate core battery controls and application software components at pack and vehicle level.

Coordinate BMS software development efforts to ensure alignment with defined requirements and integration with other system components (Charge Port, OBC, DC/DC, Inverter, Thermal System, etc.).

Develop HV embedded controls software from low-level base software, diagnostics, and controls application firmware modules.

Verify the performance and reliability of the BMS algorithms using battery packs / cells and battery cyclers

Tune and optimize controls calibration parameters to improve performance

Support battery pack manufacturing and DV troubleshooting efforts.

Develop and maintain unit, MIL, and SIL tests to validate software.

Define and specify interfaces between application software and firmware.

Work with/resolve ambiguity in requirements/specifications/designs.

Enforce quality by helping define test cases with test team by providing detailed requirements and supporting documentation when needed

Collaborate with platform software, validation, and analytics teams to implement and refine algorithms, and integrate feedback from field and lab data.

Develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions.

Extract and document detailed component-level requirements for battery management systems and power electronics, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams (hardware, firmware, systems engineering) to ensure alignment with overall vehicle objectives.

Contribute to firmware, hardware, systems, and functional safety design reviews.

Participate in functional safety and failure avoidance analysis of complex electrical and software vehicle subsystems (HARAs, FMEAs, etc.).

Prepare technical reports and presentations to communicate findings to key stakeholders and management.

Collaborate with mechanical, hardware and system team for seamless integration of hardware and software components.

Act as the primary point of contact between the BMS software team and the battery pack team.

Document integration and calibration processes, test results and system configurations

Work with hardware and debuggers at a bench and HIL level to verify software operation.

Instrument and profile software to identify opportunities for optimization on the submodule and system level.

XML job scraping automation by YubHub