Staff Motor Controls Engineer

and develop technical specifications for control system components, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations, and correlated analytical models.

• ✓Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate control strategies with hardware and software components and validate system functionality through simulation and testing.
• ✓Identify and track key system decisions that establish technology roadmaps and customer facing attributes.
• ✓Utilize necessary tools such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and frequency response analyzers to bring-up and test controls on target hardware.
• ✓Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis efforts to identify and resolve control system-related issues and implement corrective actions to improve system performance and reliability.
• ✓Stay current with industry trends and advancements in control theory, power electronics, and automotive technologies, and apply this knowledge to enhance control system designs and functionalities.
• ✓Support the development of validation and verification plans.
• ✓Participate in testing and validation activities to ensure control system performance and safety

are met.

You'll have...

• ✓Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics Degree or similar degree
• ✓10+ years of experience designing, developing, and releasing products.
• ✓Sound knowledge of power electronics and control theory.
• ✓Experience coding control algorithms and inverter applications in embedded C.
• ✓Experience designing and optimizing controls for motor inverters, chargers, DCDCs, or similar mass-produced automotive grade power electronic products.
• ✓Hands-on experience building, optimizing, and launching motor control systems using induction motors and/or PMSMs for traction control
• ✓Strong power electronics and digital controls background, particularly in motor drive applications, DCDC, and/or chargers.
• ✓Experience in modeling control systems using MATLAB/Simulink, PLECS or similar.
• ✓Hands-on experience building and launching automotive products and prototyping powertrain systems.
• ✓Ability to read and interpret component datasheets, PCB schematics and layout design.

Even better, you may have...

• ✓PhD degree in engineering
• ✓Knowledge of fault tolerant machine topologies and optimization of inverters for sensorless control.
• ✓Deep understanding of sensorless controls techniques.
• ✓Experience with Microsoft Office, Confluence, and Jira applications.
• ✓Experience with instrumentation and measurement of powertrain systems in a lab environment.
• ✓Experience using git or similar version control system.
• ✓An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team.
• ✓A systems approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement.

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 leadership level 6 and ranges from $150,200-$283,500.

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/LL6

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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