Power Management- Senior System Engineer

Ford; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount

Job summary

Ford is seeking a Senior Power Management and Systems Engineer to lead the systems engineering lifecycle for next-generation vehicle power management platforms and advanced electrical architectures. You will act as a technical bridge between internal teams, cross-functional leaders, and external engineering partners to ensure safe, reliable, and robust execution.

You will drive high-level system definitions, develop use cases, author design documentation, and oversee partner deliverables while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering with relevant automotive experience.
• 5+ years of systems engineering experience in automotive electrical architectures or energy distribution.
• Strong skills in requirements decomposition and system-level modeling.
• Proven ability to oversee external engineering suppliers or partners.
• Experience using Change Control tools (e.g., Jira) and documenting complex architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-level system use-case development, decomposition, and reviews across vehicle power platforms.
• Provide architectural guidance across multi-platform programs and collaborate with external partners.
• Coordinate with external suppliers to ensure requirements quality and mitigate risks.
• Lead change control investigations and support system-level root-cause analyses.
• Author High-Level Design documentation and drive standardized Power Management templates.

Skills

Systems engineering

Power management

Electrical architectures

Requirements decomposition

System modeling

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

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.

In this position...

As a Senior Power Management and Systems Engineer, you will lead the systems engineering lifecycle for our next-generation vehicle power management platforms and advanced electrical architectures. In this highly collaborative role, you will act as a key technical bridge between internal engineering teams, cross-functional leaders, and external engineering partners.

You will drive high-level system definitions, lead system-level use-case development and decomposition, author high-level design (HLD) documentation, and provide rigorous quality oversight for partner deliverables. This role is crucial in defining the future of our multi-platform power distribution and energy management systems, ensuring safety, reliability, and robust execution.

What you'll do...

1. System Use-Case Development, Decomposition & Review

Serve as the lead engineer for high-level (L0) system use-case development, decomposition, and review across core vehicle power platforms.

Coordinate the systematic decomposition of Customer/Vehicle use cases into detailed sub-system levels and interface definitions.

Conduct rigorous peer reviews with sub-system leaders to ensure alignment and coverage.

Prepare and present critical safety use-case walkthroughs to ensure compliance with functional safety standards.

2. Multi-Platform System Definition & Architecture

Provide architectural guidance and review support across multi-platform vehicle programs.

Partner with senior technical leaders and third-party engineering teams on higher-platform-scope system definitions.

Clarify vehicle feature content against existing system use cases to identify discrepancies or scope gaps.

Proactively drive gap identification and closure tracking with Technical Specialists (TS) to prepare for Energy and Electrical Management reviews.

3. Engineering Partner Coordination & Quality Oversight

Serve as the primary technical liaison to external systems engineering partners.

Guide partner teams on requirements decomposition and review the quality of System/Sub-System requirements to ensure they meet internal engineering standards.

Proactively identify, document, and mitigate risks associated with partner delivery (e.g., scope creeping, under-delivery, or quality gaps).

Manage the joint engineering review process and track the successful delivery of Program Increment (PI) commitments.

4. Change Control Investigations & Technical Support

Act as the lead technical investigator for change control tickets and system-level anomalies.

Support deep-dive, system-level investigations to resolve complex power management integration issues.

Capture investigation outcomes, technical findings, and subsequent tasks as actionable backlog items within agile project management tools.

5. High-Level Design (HLD) & Power Management Frameworks

Serve as the lead author for High-Level Design (HLD) documentation for advanced power distribution and power net architectures and detailed System requirements documentation, SysML, Requirement Management tools.

Drive the creation and implementation of standardized Power Management templates in collaboration with feature development teams.

Coordinate with cross-functional engineering leaders to ensure technical alignment across hardware, software, and systems domains.

You’ll have...

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

5+ years of experience in systems engineering, automotive electrical architectures, power management, or energy distribution systems.

Strong experience in requirements decomposition, use-case development, and system-level modeling.

Proven track record of managing and providing technical oversight to external engineering suppliers or third-party design partners.

Strong analytical skills with experience leading complex technical investigations and utilizing Change Control systems (e.g., Jira or similar agile tools).

Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams, lead technical reviews, and document complex architectures clearly (e.g., via Confluence/Wikis).

Even better, you may have...

Familiarity with functional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262).

Experience with vehicle energy management, low-voltage power distribution, or high-voltage battery systems.

Experience working within Agile product development frameworks.

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 8 and ranges from $115,000-$192,900.

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 not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid