HV Battery Validation Engineer (Software & HIL)

Lincoln Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Vehicle discount program

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks a Battery Management Validation Engineer to verify high-voltage battery management hardware, software, and integrated systems across simulation, HIL benches, and energized hardware tests. The role shifts across product architectures and requires disciplined traceability and automation.

The ideal candidate has strong instrumentation skills, Python scripting, and experience in either bench automation or energized HV testing, with travel flexibility and clear communication

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Computer, Mechanical, or Mechatronics Engineering.
• 4+ years validating embedded electronic control systems, battery systems, or high-voltage electrical equipment.
• Demonstrated test plan authorship traceable to requirements, with disciplined test documentation.
• Practical instrumentation skill: oscilloscopes, data acquisition, power supplies, electronic loads, and communication analyzers.
• Scripting capability in Python or equivalent for test automation or data analysis.
• Either hardware-in-the-loop and test automation experience, or high-voltage laboratory and energized test experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel occasionally.

Responsibilities

• Translate system requirements and architect-authored design verification methods into design verification plans, executable test cases, and acceptance criteria with full traceability.
• Execute validation campaigns across sample phases and software release cycles; document results, defects, and evidence to audit standard.
• Perform fault insertion and negative testing, including sensor faults, communication loss, isolation degradation, contactor faults, overvoltage, overtemperature, and thermal event response.
• Verify diagnostic and protection behavior, safe state entry, and annunciation to external systems.
• Root-cause failures with hardware, software, and algorithm engineers; verify fixes and manage regression.
• Witness and technically review supplier verification reports for method conformance and sufficiency.
• Contribute evidence to functional safety, cybersecurity, and product safety documentation packages.
• Build and maintain working competence across both validation domains over time to provide cross-coverage.

Skills

Test plan authorship

Traceability

Python scripting

Data analysis

Validation experience

Communication skills

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Computer, Mechanical, or Mechatronics Engineering

4+ years validating embedded electronic control systems, battery systems, or high-voltage electrical equipment

Tools

HIL benches

CI systems

Oscilloscopes

Data acquisition

Instrumentation

Job description

Ford Motor Company seeks a Battery Management Validation Engineer to verify high-voltage battery management hardware, software, and integrated systems across simulation, HIL benches, and energized hardware tests. The role shifts across product architectures and requires disciplined traceability and automation.

The ideal candidate has strong instrumentation skills, Python scripting, and experience in either bench automation or energized HV testing, with travel flexibility and clear communication