Hiring: Battery Management System Architect Company: Ford Motor Company Location: Dearborn, MI Job Posted Time: 2026-09-13 12:22:18 Target Skills & Keywords : C, C++, Embedded Systems, GitHub, Jira, MATLAB, Python, Requirements Management, Simulink, Systems Engineering About the job Experience: •6+ years in embedded electronic control system development, including 3+ years on battery management or comparable high-voltage electrical systems. Required 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! •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 •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 Qualifications: •Own the BMS architecture and the functional allocation, partitioning, and design rationale across its components and control levels. •Own product attribute requirements - usable energy, power and current capability, charge and discharge rate, efficiency, and service life - and allocate them into system, subsystem, and component requirements. •Decompose customer, safety, and program requirements with bidirectional traceability; author and release requirement sets across multiple concurrent programs and suppliers, maintaining a common core with program-specific variants. •Define operating states and transitions, and the fault handling architecture covering detection, classification, propagation, annunciation, and recovery. •Define the internal communication architecture, including message sets, timing budgets, and degraded-mode behavior. •Define measurement and accuracy requirements for voltage, temperature, current, and isolation, and allocate error budgets across the sensing chain. •Own architectural trade studies and document decisions, alternatives, and rationale. •Own the design verification strategy and ensure full verification coverage of released requirements, with methods assigned by requirement class. •Define acceptance criteria, test method, level of test, instrumentation, and evidence to be retained; allocate requirements to analysis, simulation, bench, subsystem, or full-system verification. •Own requirement-to-verification-to-result traceability and its completeness at each program gate. Compensation: •$86,600 - $144,900 / year •Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!