Power Management- Senior System Engineer

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Power Management and Systems Engineer, you will lead the systems engineering lifecycle for our next-generation vehicle power management platforms and advanced electrical architectures. In this highly collaborative role, you will act as a key technical bridge between internal engineering teams, cross-functional leaders, and external engineering partners. You will drive high-level system definitions, lead system-level use-case development and decomposition, author high-level design (HLD) documentation, and provide rigorous quality oversight for partner deliverables. This role is crucial in defining the future of our multi-platform power distribution and energy management systems, ensuring safety, reliability, and robust execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, automotive electrical architectures, power management, or energy distribution systems.
• Strong experience in requirements decomposition, use-case development, and system-level modeling.
• Proven track record of managing and providing technical oversight to external engineering suppliers or third-party design partners.
• Strong analytical skills with experience leading complex technical investigations and utilizing Change Control systems (e.g., Jira or similar agile tools).
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams, lead technical reviews, and document complex architectures clearly (e.g., via Confluence/Wikis).

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with functional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262).
• Experience with vehicle energy management, low-voltage power distribution, or high-voltage battery systems.
• Experience working within Agile product development frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead engineer for high-level (L0) system use-case development, decomposition, and review across core vehicle power platforms.
• Coordinate the systematic decomposition of Customer/Vehicle use cases into detailed sub-system levels and interface definitions.
• Conduct rigorous peer reviews with sub-system leaders to ensure alignment and coverage.
• Prepare and present critical safety use-case walkthroughs to ensure compliance with functional safety standards.
• Provide architectural guidance and review support across multi-platform vehicle programs.
• Partner with senior technical leaders and third-party engineering teams on higher-platform-scope system definitions.
• Clarify vehicle feature content against existing system use cases to identify discrepancies or scope gaps.
• Proactively drive gap identification and closure tracking with Technical Specialists (TS) to prepare for Energy and Electrical Management reviews.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison to external systems engineering partners.
• Guide partner teams on requirements decomposition and review the quality of System/Sub-System requirements to ensure they meet internal engineering standards.
• Proactively identify, document, and mitigate risks associated with partner delivery (e.g., scope creeping, under-delivery, or quality gaps).
• Manage the joint engineering review process and track the successful delivery of Program Increment (PI) commitments.
• Act as the lead technical investigator for change control tickets and system-level anomalies.
• Support deep-dive, system-level investigations to resolve complex power management integration issues.
• Capture investigation outcomes, technical findings, and subsequent tasks as actionable backlog items within agile project management tools.
• Serve as the lead author for High-Level Design (HLD) documentation for advanced power distribution and power net architectures and detailed System requirements documentation, SysML, Requirement Management tools.
• Drive the creation and implementation of standardized Power Management templates in collaboration with feature development teams.
• Coordinate with cross-functional engineering leaders to ensure technical alignment across hardware, software, and systems domains.

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: Senior