Sr Power Electronics HIL Test Engineer

Ford Motor Company; Santa Fe Springs (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Ford's Electric Vehicles team as a HIL Engineer and contribute to pioneering a fully electric transportation future. Leverage your expertise in hardware testing and validation to optimize power electronics systems, ensuring an industry-leading customer experience. Enjoy competitive salaries and extensive benefits while working with top-tier professionals on cutting-edge technologies.

Benefits

Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

Flexible family care days, paid parental leave

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program for employees

Paid time off for community service

Qualifications

• 5+ years of testing and validation experience.
• Experience with automotive regulatory standards (ISO26262, SAEJ1772).
• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create HIL test strategies and scripts based on internal and regulatory requirements.
• Support all release testing and bug triaging.
• Document results and provide reports.

Skills

Testing and validation

Power electronics modeling

Data analysis

Automation framework in Python

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor/master’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

MATLAB

PLECS

Simscape

dSPACE

Typhoon

Job description

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.

In this position…

You will work on crucial hardware in the loop test engineering problems across our real-time application development teams for deeper test integration with underlying resources. HIL engineers help bridge the gap between hardware engineers, controls and software engineers, leveraging proven profiling, test, and debugging techniques to optimize our systems.

Qualifications

You'll have…

• 5+ years of testing and validation experience.
• Bachelor/master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or similar.
• Working experience with matlab, PLECS, simscape, HDL coder (FPGA).
• Power electronics modeling experience with dSPACE/Typhoon/OPAL-RT.
• Experience modeling semiconductor components like SiC, GaN and Silicon.
• Knowledge of PWM methodologies, Dual active bridge DC-DC topology and Power Factor Corrector (PFC).
• Knowledge of lab instruments such as DMM, Oscilloscope, power supplies, and DAQs.
• Experience with industry standard I/O and communications interfaces, e.g, CAN, CAN-FD, LIN and Ethernet.
• Experience with HV systems.
• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience setting up automation framework in python and/or Tracetronic ECU-Test.
• Ability to break down requirements into tests.

Even better, you may have…

• Experience with Typhoon Schematic tools.
• Knowledge/familiarity of standards ISO26262 and SAEJ1772.
• Experience with automotive regulatory, environmental, reliability, and safety requirements. SAE, IEC, ISO.
• Experience with Test management tools like DOORS/Polarion/JAMA.
• Test automation set up experience like CI/CD Pipeline is a plus.
• Experience setting up the HIL on dSPACE/Typhoon/similar.
• Familiarity with diagnostics protocol like UDS ISO14229.
• Software development/programming experience in C/C++/LabVIEW.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRSP4

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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Onsite work of up to three days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location. #LI-Hybrid #LI-HA1

Responsibilities

What you'll do…

• Experience in HIL testing of On-Board charger, DC-DC Converter, DC-AC Inverter
• Create HIL test strategies, test cases and scripts based on internal and regulatory requirements.
• Model Power electronics on Typhoon HIL
• Set-up test equipment and run hands-on tests.
• Support all release testing and bug triaging.
• Help identify gaps in requirements and review the requirements for testability.
• Work on setups to allow highly automated software release testing.
• Create data acquisition systems for test data recording.
• Utilize numerical data analysis tools to interpret test results.
• Document results and provide reports.
• Establish traceability using requirement management tools and version control.
• Investigate test failures through analysis and failure reproduction