Ford Motor Company

eDrive Controller Electronics Core Engineer

Ford Motor Company • $99K — $192K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of experience in Electrical and/or electronics design
  • Proficiency in EDA/simulation tools like Cadence, Matlab, Spice, Saber
  • Preferred: PhD in Electrical Engineering or Power Electronics
  • Knowledge of analog/digital circuit design and power devices

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop system requirements
  • Design and validate inverter controller and gate drive circuits
  • Develop and conduct circuit function verification methods
  • Test gate drive circuits to optimize design parameters
  • Perform root cause analysis for field issues
  • Support microprocessor firmware development
  • Engage in Hardware-in-the-Loop and various system testing activities

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy reimbursements
  • Tuition assistance for professional development
  • Employee resource groups for community and support
  • Generous paid time off policies including holidays and community service
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
An eDrive Controller Electronics Engineer would be responsible for design, analysis, testing and verification of eDrive inverter system controller and gate drive functionality and reliability. The responsibilities would also include collaboration with cross-functional teams for function and performance requirements capturing, FMA document development. The work also includes supporting eDrive system function verification, troubleshooting, and conducting root cause analysis, and benchmarking.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to develop requirements for electric drive system controllers
  • Design and validate inverter controller and gate drive board circuits, schematics, and layouts
  • Develop circuit function verification methods; conduct testing and troubleshooting
  • Test gate drive circuits and optimize key design parameters to reduce EMI and improve fault tolerance, protection, and diagnostics
  • Perform root cause analysis for field issues
  • Support low-level software development for the controller's microprocessor
  • Support Hardware-in-the-Loop, High Voltage Lab, Motor Dyno, Vehicle, and EMC testing
  • Support inverter benchmarking activities, including in-depth analysis of controller and gate drive circuits
  • Present findings and progress to cross-functional teams and leadership
  • Ensure product quality throughout the entire design process


Qualifications

You'll have...
Minimum Requirements:
  • Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of experience in Electrical and/or electronics design. (coursework/co-op/internship experience during PhD studies allowed)
  • 3+ years of experience of hands-on or EDA/simulation tools (e.g. Cadence, Matlab, Spice, Saber, etc.)

Even better, if you have ...
Preferred
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering or Power Electronics
  • Familiar with analog and digital circuit design, microprocessor-based control circuit
  • Knowledge of Power Devices (e.g. MOSFET, Transistor, IGBT, SiC, etc.), Logic IC, High side driver/Low side driver, and SMD passive components
  • Experience of Power electronics circuit design, such as SMPS design, Gate Drive Circuit design
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience of using electrical test and rework equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, voltage/current probes, function generator and soldering equipment) (coursework/internship/co-op experience allowed)
  • Knowledge/experience of worst-case circuit analysis.
  • Knowledge/experience of Power Inverters and motor control
  • Knowledge of DFMEA/DFSS and accelerated life test
  • Knowledge of G8D for Root Cause Analysis
  • Knowledge/experience with automotive electronics and EMC fundamentals
  • Strong teamwork and collaboration skills, self-motivated, eager to take ownership and deliver results with minimal direction.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


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 7 - 8 and ranges from $99,600 - $192,900.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

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

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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