Electronics Hardware Engineer

Ford Motor Company; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Ford Motor Company’s EVDD team is hiring engineers to deliver electric vehicle electronics. This role involves hardware bring-up, schematic capture, and collaboration with PCB and mechanical teams to ensure production readiness.

You will perform power electronics design work, run failure investigations, and utilize RS485/UART/CAN/Ethernet protocols, applying ISO26262 concepts where relevant. Hybrid work model with onsite presence required.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• Hands-on schematic capture and circuit analysis tools.
• Experience with RCCA (Root Cause & Corrective Action) and 8D.
• Experience with electric/electronic systems and lab equipment (DMM, MSO, Logic Analyzer, VNA).
• Familiarity with RS485, UART, CAN, Ethernet communication protocols.
• 5+ years designing automotive electronics.

Responsibilities

• Capture requirements and translate into technical specifications.
• Design capture, component selection and design release.
• Research concepts and take them to production readiness.
• Perform worst case design, EOL estimation, thermal calculations and component selection.
• Collaborate with PCB and mechanical teams to guide layouts.
• Support design validation and end-of-line tests.
• Communicate clearly with the team to resolve issues.

Skills

Schematic capture

Circuit simulation

Failure investigations

Power electronics

Communication protocols

Hardware bring-up

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering

Tools

Altium

Oscilloscope

Logic Analyzer

VNA

Job description

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

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. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

• Capture requirements from all skate holders and translate into technical specifications
• Responsible for schematics capture, component selection and design release.
• Research on new concept and idealization of product, take it to production ready.
• Performing Worst case design calculation, End of life estimation, Thermal Calculation and Components selection.
• Work closely with PCB team and mechanical team to guide, review layouts.
• Understanding and implementing power electronic topologies
• Perform design failure analysis and support functional safety activities
• Hands-on hardware bring-up, characterization, troubleshooting, and failure analysis
• Collaborate with all engineering teams to guarantee adherence to technical specifications.
• Support definition of design validation tests and end-of-line tests specification.
• Prioritizes clear and timely communication with the team when issues or failures arise, facilitating a collaborative approach to identifying solutions and learning from setbacks.

You’ll have...

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree with major in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Hands-on skills of schematic capture and circuit simulation & analysis tools.
• Experience with failure investigations and Root Cause & Corrective Action Analysis (RCCA), 8D
• Hands on experience with electric/ electronics systems, and all standard lab equipment’s (DMM, MSO, Logic Analyzer, VNA, Power supplies)
• Familiarity with communication protocols (RS485, UART, CAN, Ethernet)
• 5+ years designing automotive electronics

Even better, you may have...

• Experience with Altium preferred
• Experience with automotive safety controllers – experience with ISO26262 is preferred

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 6 and ranges from $100,400-$168,000.,

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $118,700-$198,500.,

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $138,800-$232,700.

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.

Visa sponsorship is 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 with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.