BMS Release Engineer: Hardware, Quality & Global Supply

Jobtailor; Dearborn (MI, MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an experienced engineer to own BMS hardware/software release, BOM accuracy, cost and timing for global supplier delivery. You will drive DFMEA/DVPR, post-launch quality, and field-issue resolution, coordinating with cross-functional teams to meet program milestones in a high-voltage battery electronics domain.

Responsibilities include managing design changes, prototype launches, supplier qualification, and CSP/APQP/PPAP processes, while leading critical-path planning and risk

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of engineering experience, including design and release accountability for production electronic hardware through launch.
• Demonstrated ownership of engineering release and change control for a production product, including bill of material accuracy and cost, investment, or quality targets.
• Experience with DFMEA, DVPR, control plan, and special characteristics.
• Experience with post-launch quality resolution, including warranty and field concern investigation.
• Experience working with suppliers on technical deliverables and production readiness.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Ability and willingness to travel occasionally, including to supplier and manufacturing sites.
• Experience releasing high-voltage battery electronics or safety-related electronic control units.
• Experience with WERS, AIMS, and field service action processes.
• Experience with electronic control unit hardware and embedded software release processes.
• Experience managing a global supply base across multiple time zones.
• Experience with product safety, functional safety, or cybersecurity process requirements applied to electronic control units.
• Experience establishing internal engineering ownership of externally developed hardware or software, including documentation and toolchain transfer.
• Experience owning technical timing plans and critical path for a hardware and software deliverable set.

Responsibilities

• Own part numbering, drawing and CAD release, engineering change records, and bill of material accuracy for all BMS assemblies.
• Own piece cost, tooling investment, mass, and packaging commitments; assess and communicate design-change cost impacts.
• Provide technical input to enclosure design, attachment features, and package sizing.
• Manage obsolescence, running changes, alternate-source qualification, and end-of-life planning.
• Define service part strategy, serviceability, marking, labeling, and traceability requirements.
• Own prototype demand planning and manufacturing launch through ramp, including build events, first article inspection, containment, and end-of-line test capability.
• Own design FMEA, control plan, special characteristics, supplier Schedule A, DVPR, verification results, and traceability records.
• Own warranty, reliability, and quality targets; lead warranty investigations, plant returns, and failure analysis.
• Lead field service actions, including 14D, 5-Why, and recurrence-prevention documentation.
• Represent the BMS work stream in technical and quality review forums.
• Author and maintain the BMS technical timing plan aligned to program gates and vehicle milestones.
• Own the critical path for tooling, test capacity, and long-lead components; drive recovery planning and accelerate risk mitigation.
• Own gate-readiness assessments, go/no-go recommendations, and technical status, review, and risk-reporting cadence.
• Own supplier technical delivery against statements of work and committed dates; lead supplier reviews and open-issue closure.
• Drive supplier APQP, PPAP, change requests, and capacity assessments to completion.
• Manage deviations and concessions, including technical assessment, cost impact, and disposition.
• Drive supplier documentation covering design rationale, calibration methodology, diagnostic strategy, toolchains, and test infrastructure.

Skills

Engineering Release Accountability

DFMEA & DVPR Experience

Supplier Technical Management

Post-Launch Quality Resolution

High-Voltage Battery Electronics

Product Safety Compliance

Cybersecurity Process Requirements

Global Supply Base Management

Technical Timing Plans & Critical Path

Electronic Control Unit Release (HW/SW

Cost Impact Assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

WERS

AIMS

APQP

PPAP

Job description

Jobtailor seeks an experienced engineer to own BMS hardware/software release, BOM accuracy, cost and timing for global supplier delivery. You will drive DFMEA/DVPR, post-launch quality, and field-issue resolution, coordinating with cross-functional teams to meet program milestones in a high-voltage battery electronics domain.

Responsibilities include managing design changes, prototype launches, supplier qualification, and CSP/APQP/PPAP processes, while leading critical-path planning and risk