Ford Motor Company

Senior Manager, Electrical Engineering

Ford Motor Company$130K — $180K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering
  • 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams
  • 10+ years of experience with board design
  • Experience working with Altium eCAD tools
  • Experience working with contract manufacturers and OEMs
  • Knowledge of DC/DC converters, data buses, and analog circuit design
  • Experience in technical leadership

Responsibilities

  • Recruit, mentor, and manage the performance of electrical engineers
  • Schematic and layout of key electrical boards and guide JDM/OEMs
  • Bring up and validate designs for reliability and implement necessary changes
  • Create rapid prototypes using off-the-shelf parts to execute design visions
  • Integrate electrical designs with other engineering teams
  • Influence the definition of electrical architecture and execution

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care and parental leave options
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance for professional development
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service
  • Generous schedule of paid holidays including a holiday break
  • Paid time off with the option to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

Advanced EV's Design Concept Engineering team is looking for an EE Sr Manager, Hardware Engineering to join our fast-paced development, working on cutting-edge features with complex hardware, sensors and software. You would be responsible for leading the EE team that architects, implements and designs boards for our upcoming product platform, including both on-vehicle and off-vehicle components. This work focuses on product-differentiating, customer-facing designs and circuits for new products features and development. A good candidate would have a strong background in printed circuit board design, schematics and layout, and 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. Experience with working with oversea CMs and production processes are preferred.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

Team Management - Recruit, mentor, and manage the performance of electrical engineers. Assign resources, handle career development, and foster a collaborative engineering culture.

Electrical Design - Schematic and layout of key electrical boards as well as providing guidance to JDM/OEMs on executing designs.

Bring up and validation - Bring up designs done in-house and at JDM/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.

Qualifications

You'll have...

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering


  • 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams


  • 10+ 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


  • Experience in technical leadership


Even better, you may have...

  • 10+ years of experience with Systems/HW architectures experience


  • Python scripting experience


  • C/C++ coding experience


  • Design experience using microprocessors and digital logic


  • Knowledge in display, audio and camera technologies


  • Experience in motors and encoders


  • Experience using SI tools such as hyperlink


  • Experience in ethernet networking


  • Experience in automotive design (AECxxx, CAN, LIN, T1S)


  • Experience with validation testing and production design processes


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 change maker, 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, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

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Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Net Income
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Founded
1903
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