Senior Battery Management Controls Software Engineer

Ford-Motor-Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical, dental, vision and药

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program for employees

Job summary

Ford Motor Company in Dearborn is seeking a Battery Management Controls Software Engineer to develop application-layer control software for high-voltage battery systems used in EVs.

You will design state machines, HV sequencing, protection, thermal control, and diagnostics, working with model-based development and production code generation, plus Embedded C on real hardware. This is a hybrid role onsite four or more days per week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Electrical, Computer, Mechatronics, Controls, or Mechanical Engineering.
• 5+ years developing embedded application or control software for ECUs.
• Model-based development proficiency with production code generation; working C ability.
• Demonstrated state machine, sequencing, and diagnostic strategy design on production programs.
• Requirements-driven software development with traceability, unit testing, and code review discipline.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own operating state machines and mode management with supervisory coordination across controllers.
• Implement high-voltage sequencing, precharge control, and contactor diagnostics; interlock handling.
• Implement protection strategy: voltage, current, temperature, isolation, and thermal event response.
• Implement current and power limit calculation and arbitration across system levels.
• Implement cell balancing demand logic and coordinate balancing across modules and strings.
• Implement thermal management control, actuation, setpoints, and diagnostics.
• Aggregate and report states; handle fault propagation and annunciation to external systems.
• Own diagnostic strategy: detection, debounce, classification, storage, clearing, and reporting.
• Calibrate estimation models from algorithm engineering; maintain calibration parameters and docs.
• Develop application software using model-based development with production code generation; write hand-written C when needed.
• Prepare software requirements and design documentation traceable to system requirements; support safety analyses and validation.

Skills

State machine design

Model-based development

Embedded C

Diagnostics design

Requirements traceability

Hardware debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, Mechatronics, Controls, or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Production code generation

Job description

Ford Motor Company in Dearborn is seeking a Battery Management Controls Software Engineer to develop application-layer control software for high-voltage battery systems used in EVs.

You will design state machines, HV sequencing, protection, thermal control, and diagnostics, working with model-based development and production code generation, plus Embedded C on real hardware. This is a hybrid role onsite four or more days per week.