Electronics Hardware Engineer

Ford • Long Beach, CA

8h • $100,400 - $232,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree with major in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Hands-on skills of schematic capture and circuit simulation & analysis tools.
• Experience with failure investigations and Root Cause & Corrective Action Analysis (RCCA), 8D
• Hands on experience with electric/ electronics systems, and all standard lab equipment’s (DMM, MSO, Logic Analyzer, VNA, Power supplies)
• Familiarity with communication protocols (RS485, UART, CAN, Ethernet)
• 5+ years designing automotive electronics

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Altium preferred
• Experience with automotive safety controllers – experience with ISO26262 is preferred

Responsibilities

• Capture requirements from all stakeholders and translate into technical specifications
• Responsible for schematics capture, component selection and design release.
• Research new concepts and idealization of products, take it to production ready.
• Performing Worst case design calculation, End of life estimation, Thermal Calculation and Components selection.
• Work closely with PCB team and mechanical team to guide, review layouts.
• Understanding and implementing power electronic topologies
• Perform design failure analysis and support functional safety activities
• Hands-on hardware bring-up, characterization, troubleshooting, and failure analysis
• Collaborate with all engineering teams to guarantee adherence to technical specifications.
• Support definition of design validation tests and end-of-line tests specification.
• Prioritizes clear and timely communication with the team when issues or failures arise, facilitating a collaborative approach to identifying solutions and learning from setbacks.

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