Electronics Hardware Engineer - Ford Motor Company

Polluxa, Inc.; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford’s EVDD team in Long Beach is hiring a hardware engineer focused on electrical design and validation for electric vehicle systems. You’ll translate requirements into technical specs, capture schematics, select components, and drive design releases.

You’ll work with PCB and mechanical teams to ensure robust layouts and production readiness. You’ll perform worst‑case and thermal analyses, run RCCA investigations, and lead hardware bring‑up and fault analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Hands‑on schematic capture and circuit analysis.
• Experience with RCCA/8D problem solving.
• Experience with electric/electronic systems and standard lab equipment.

Responsibilities

• Capture requirements and translate into technical specifications.
• Perform schematic capture, component selection and design release.
• Research concepts and bring them to production readiness.
• Perform worst-case design calculations and end-of-life estimation.
• Collaborate with PCB and mechanical teams to review layouts.
• Understand and implement power electronic topologies.
• Support design validation and end-of-line tests.
• Conduct failure analysis and corrective actions.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, and characterization.

Skills

Schematic capture

Circuit simulation

Failure investigations

RCCA

Power electronics

Hardware bring-up

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

DMM

MSO

Logic Analyzer

VNA

Power supplies

Job description

Job ID

69194

Location

Long Beach, California

Category

PD Operations and Quality

Overview

At Ford, you’ll work on ideas that matter, alongside passionate people who want to make a global impact. Together, we’re shaping the next era of transportation—grounded in purpose, driven by progress. Make your move.

• Job Type: Full time
• Work Type: Hybrid

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)