48V Power Controls Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

5h • $99,600 - $166,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

In this role, you will own key aspects of the 48V powernet control system for advanced vehicle electrical architectures, including Powernet 1, 1+, and future platforms. You will be responsible for developing system-level control requirements and test cases that ensure robust low-voltage power supply performance across normal, edge, and corner-case user scenarios. The ideal candidate will bring experience in automotive system, hardware, or software engineering, with a strong understanding of ICE and xEV low-voltage power supply architectures. This position also requires comfort working in an Agile environment, including Jira, PI and sprint planning, dependency management, risk tracking, and continuous improvement practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Automotive Systems, or a related technical field. or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 3+ years of experience in automotive system, hardware, software, or control engineering development.
• 3+ years experience with ICE and xEV low-voltage power supply architectures, including, Alternators/Belt-Integrated Starter-Generators (BISG), DC-to-DC power converters (DCDC), Low-voltage batteries (AGM Lead-acid, Lithium-ion), Power distribution boxes, & Vehicle load management systems
• 3+ years of experience developing or supporting system-level requirements, system or software DFMEA, test cases, and validation plans.
• 3+ years of experience Agile development practices and DevOps tools such as Jira/Github.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Systems, Automotive Systems, or a related discipline.
• Experience in vehicle body, low-voltage power supply, electrified powertrain, powertrain system or software development.
• Hands-on experience with system requirements development, validation support, and issue investigation.
• Understanding of modern software development practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment concepts.
• Experience with HIL, SIL, breadboard, or vehicle-level testing.
• Experience supporting quality, warranty, or field issue investigations related to power supply systems.
• Experience working within or interacting with functional safety, diagnostics, FMA, braking, steering, or other safety-critical control teams.
• Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to present trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to apply systems engineering principles using a top-down, user-scenario-driven approach.
• Strong analytical skills for evaluating system interactions, failure modes, trade-offs, and control strategy behavior.
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and ownership of 48V powernet control strategies for vehicle low-voltage power supply systems.
• Define, implement, and release system-level control requirements for, Operating mode management, Power generation, Load management, Energy management, Fault management, & Calibration strategies.
• Develop requirements and test cases covering normal operation, degraded operation, and corner-case user scenarios.
• Analyze system interactions across power supply hardware, software controls, vehicle electrical architecture, and dependent vehicle systems.
• Evaluate charge margin, voltage stability, current stability, load behavior, and system-level energy balance.
• Support system-level simulation and validation activities, including SIL, HIL, breadboard, and vehicle-level testing.
• Lead requirements decomposition, traceability, and alignment with functional safety, diagnostics, DFMEA, and validation activities.
• Triage system-level issues and drive clear problem statements for sub-system teams to support root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with software development, power supply hardware, electrical architecture, diagnostics, and validation teams to deliver coherent system solutions.
• Support integration of 48V power systems across vehicle platforms while ensuring alignment with architecture, safety, diagnostic, and validation requirements.
• Lead decision matrices and technical trade-off assessments to address system issues and recommend solutions.
• Lead technical documentation, system specifications, design reviews, and release readiness reviews.
• Operate effectively within an Agile development environment, including Jira, PI planning, sprint planning, risk management, and dependency tracking.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level