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Power Management- Senior System Engineer
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, USA
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Hybrid
$115,000-$192,900
Discovered 5 days ago
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What you'll do
- System Use-Case Development, Decomposition & Review
- Serve as the lead engineer for high-level (L0) system use-case development, decomposition, and review across core vehicle power platforms.
- Coordinate the systematic decomposition of Customer/Vehicle use cases into detailed sub-system levels and interface definitions.
- Conduct rigorous peer reviews with sub-system leaders to ensure alignment and coverage.
- Prepare and present critical safety use-case walkthroughs to ensure compliance with functional safety standards.
- Multi-Platform System Definition & Architecture
- Provide architectural guidance and review support across multi-platform vehicle programs.
- Partner with senior technical leaders and third-party engineering teams on higher-platform-scope system definitions.
- Clarify vehicle feature content against existing system use cases to identify discrepancies or scope gaps.
- Proactively drive gap identification and closure tracking with Technical Specialists (TS) to prepare for Energy and Electrical Management reviews.
- Engineering Partner Coordination & Quality Oversight
- Serve as the primary technical liaison to external systems engineering partners.
- Guide partner teams on requirements decomposition and review the quality of System/Sub-System requirements to ensure they meet internal engineering standards.
- Proactively identify, document, and mitigate risks associated with partner delivery (e.g., scope creeping, under-delivery, or quality gaps).
- Manage the joint engineering review process and track the successful delivery of Program Increment (PI) commitments.
- Change Control Investigations & Technical Support
- Act as the lead technical investigator for change control tickets and system-level anomalies.
- Support deep-dive, system-level investigations to resolve complex power management integration issues.
- Capture investigation outcomes, technical findings, and subsequent tasks as actionable backlog items within agile project management tools.
- High-Level Design (HLD) & Power Management Frameworks
- Serve as the lead author for High-Level Design (HLD) documentation for advanced power distribution and power net architectures and detailed System requirements documentation, SysML, Requirement Management tools.
- Drive the creation and implementation of standardized Power Management templates in collaboration with feature development teams.
- Coordinate with cross-functional engineering leaders to ensure technical alignment across hardware, software, and systems domains.
- You'll have...
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, automotive electrical architectures, power management, or energy distribution systems.
- Strong experience in requirements decomposition, use-case development, and system-level modeling.
- Proven track record of managing and providing technical oversight to external engineering suppliers or third-party design partners.
- Strong analytical skills with experience leading complex technical investigations and utilizing Change Control systems (e.g., Jira or similar agile tools).
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams, lead technical reviews, and document complex architectures clearly (e.g., via Confluence/Wikis).
- Even better, you may have...
- Familiarity with functional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262).
- Experience with vehicle energy management, low-voltage power distribution, or high-voltage battery systems.
- Experience working within Agile product development frameworks.
- You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
- As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
- 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.
- This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $115,000-$192,900.
- Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
- For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
- Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
- This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid
- #LI-RR1
Qualifications
- Familiarity with functional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262).
- Experience with vehicle energy management, low-voltage power distribution, or high-voltage battery systems.
About Ford Motor Company
Automotive10,001+Founded 1903
Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan. Founded in 1903 by Henry Ford, it is one of the largest automakers in the world, producing cars, trucks, SUVs, and commercial vehicles.
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