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In this position...

Analyze and identify critical hardware components affecting circuit performance, including electrical characteristics, tolerances, environmental factors, and system-level interactions, while contributing to Product Development efforts that apply design thinking and user experience methods to deliver breakthrough, innovative, and sustainable products and services that delight customers across global mobility and technology platforms.

You'll have...

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field of study

5+ years of experience in electronics circuits design, modeling and analysis, preferably in a high reliability industry (automotive, aero-space, medical, etc.)

Experience in Electronic Circuit disciplines and processes

Experience with circuit analysis software tools, e.g. Mathcad, and simulation tools: Spice, Saber, etc.

Experience with vehicle communication protocols CAN, LIN, Automotive Ethernet

5+ years' Experience in specialized complex hardware and embedded software systems

Knowledgeable on microprocessors, solid state memory, cameras, displays and sensors

Working knowledge of industry standard interfaces (e.g. I2C, SPI, Ethernet, LVDS, DDR, PCI, I2S, A2B, etc.)

Experience working with test equipment (e.g. programable power supplies, DMMs, oscilloscopes, logic and network analyzers, temperature chambers, etc.)

Even better, you may have...

Proficient in simulation tools for signal integrity and power management circuitry.

Experience in specialized complex hardware and embedded software systems.

Familiar with automotive reliability requirements, and component selection for automotive electronics.

Familiar with automotive EMC requirements and good design practices for EMC robust design.

Ability to communicate effectively with business users and engineering professionals (e.g. globally distributed teams, ability to adjust communications appropriately for the audience, work with all levels of management and diverse work groups, etc.)

Motivated and self-starter.

Collaboration and leadership 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 and ranges from $97,140-162,540.

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

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.

What you'll do...

• Perform WCCA for products utilizing engineering principles. Apply best practices, lessons learned and innovative design techniques to achieve a reliable product at a competitive cost.

• Review circuits schematic and PCB layout implementation using industry standard tools.

• Strive to simplify the design, make it easy to manufacture, mistake proof, attempt to anticipate areas of large variation and attempt to maximize design robustness.

• Perform tolerance stack up/worst case circuit analyses (Extreme Value, RMS or Monte Carlo as required).

• Capture and codify WCCA lessons learned.

• Perform power integrity (PDN, IRdrop) and signal integrity analysis as required.

• Generate professional reports and make changes as necessary based on findings.

• Confer with other engineering team and cross functional team members on a frequent basis to ensure all aspects of the design are coming together seamlessly.

• Participate in technical design reviews to ensure compliance to design requirements.

• Define stress test routines required to validate functional sections.

• Document failure modes and feedback to improve design requirements.

• Lead the resolution of functional abnormalities observed in module designs.

• Ensure Ford and industry lessons learned are documented in the associated quality history.