Electrical Engineer

Ford Motor Company • Palo Alto, CA

33d

About The Position

The Ford Advanced EV team is looking for an EE hardware engineer with a strong background in printed circuit board design including schematics and layout to join our fast paced development. You would be responsible for implementing and designing boards for our upcoming vehicles. This work would focus on product differentiating interior, customer-facing designs and circuits for new products features and development. A good candidate would have a portfolio of shipping products in which they crafted the specifications, did schematic design, layout, bring up, and testing for. They would have knowledge of DC to DC converters, High speed digital signaling, common data buses (I2C, SPI…) and analog circuit design.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering
• 3+ years of experience with board design
• Experience working with Altium eCAD tools
• Experience working with Contract manufacturers and OEMs
• Knowledge of DC/DC converters, Transmission lines, Common Data buses, Analog circuits, Board design and layout best practices

Responsibilities

• Electrical Design - This would include schematic and layout of key electrical boards as well as providing guidance to OEMs on executing designs.
• Bring Up and validation - Bring up designs done in house and at OEM. Test designs for reliability and validity. Implement changes to address issues found.
• Rapid Prototyping - Create quick simple designs to execute design vision of the studio team using off the shelf parts. Understand tradeoffs being made for velocity and mitigate risks that impact team progress.
• System Integration - Work with other engineering teams to integrate electrical designs into our vehicles.
• Influence design decisions - Help define electrical architecture and execution.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees