Lead HV BMS Hardware Engineer

Ford

Dearborn (MI)

Hybrid

USD 115,000 - 193,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Ford in Dearborn, MI is seeking a High-Voltage Battery Monitoring System Hardware Engineer to lead design, development, validation, and release of battery monitoring hardware for EV programs. You will own critical monitoring architecture, including cell sensing, current sensing, isolation monitoring, and fault detection.

The ideal candidate has strong analog/mixed-signal hardware design experience, PCB development, and safety-focused engineering.

Qualifications

BS in Electrical/ Electronics/ Computer Engineering or related field.
5+ years in battery systems, high-voltage hardware design, or related work.
Hands-on hardware design, validation, and safety-focused engineering.
Experience with analog/mixed-signal circuits, sensors, protection, or power electronics support.

Responsibilities

Define and develop the battery monitoring hardware architecture for HV applications.
Design and release hardware for high-capacity energy systems including sensing, balancing, precharge/discharge, isolation monitoring, and fault protection.
Own the electrical architecture from concept through release; produce schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, and test docs.
Perform Worst Case Circuit Analysis and document margins, assumptions, mitigations.
Support bring-up and validation across board, module, pack, and system levels.
Create hardware test plans, fixtures, collect data, and drive design improvements.
Collaborate with firmware, controls, power conversion, and validation teams on interfaces and diagnostics.