Battery Management System Architect

What youll do...

• Architecture and Requirements
  • 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.
• Verification Basis
  • 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.
  • Review and disposition verification results against acceptance criteria; approve deviations retests and resulting requirement changes.
  • Define verification methods for supplier-executed testing and review returned evidence for method conformance and sufficiency.
  • Interrogate test bench and field data to assess design performance and close issues to root cause.
• Interfaces Safety and Technical Leadership
  • Author and maintain interface control documentation to thermal power electronics safety and protection and higher-level control systems including software-visible signals diagnostic and calibration interfaces.
  • Own the functional safety concept to ISO 26262: hazard analysis and risk assessment integrity level allocation safety mechanism specification diagnostic coverage targets and the safety argument; support FMEA FMEDA and safe state definition.
  • Author cybersecurity requirements in partnership with the owning cybersecurity organization aligned to ISO/SAE 21434 and cascade them to suppliers.
  • Define interface requirements to externally executed enclosure and packaging design including board outline connector position thermal path creepage and clearance grounding and sealing.
  • Lead architecture and design reviews with internal teams and suppliers; adjudicate technical deviations and concessions.
  • Provide technical direction to hardware software controls and validation engineers and act as escalation for cross-domain design conflicts.
  • Present architecture status technical risk and recommendations to senior management
    

Youll have...

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Electronics Computer Mechatronics or Systems Engineering.
• 6 years in embedded electronic control system development including 3 years on battery management or comparable high-voltage electrical systems.
• Deep proficiency in high-voltage battery systems: cell chemistries and their behavior series-connected string architecture charge and discharge hardware contactor and precharge design isolation monitoring sensing accuracy and interlock strategy.
• Demonstrated ownership of system architecture and requirement decomposition on a production program including requirement release to multiple suppliers or programs.
• Demonstrated experience defining verification methods and acceptance criteria not requirements alone.
• Working familiarity with functional safety and cybersecurity process standards for embedded control systems ISO 26262 or IEC 61508 and ISO/SAE 21434 or IEC 62443.
• Ability to read and interpret SysML architecture models and Simulink or equivalent behavioral models sufficiently to review supplier deliverables; software development is not required.
• Fluency in requirements management and traceability tooling.
• Experience leading technical design reviews with suppliers and presenting to senior management.
• Ability and willingness to travel occasionally.
  

Even better you may have...

• Masters degree in Electrical Engineering Systems Engineering or a related technical field.
• Model-based systems engineering practice including SysML architecture modeling.
• Functional safety practice including hazard analysis integrity level allocation and safety case development.
• Ability to read C/C source code for review purposes.
• Experience establishing internal engineering ownership of an externally developed electronic system.
• Experience with large series-connected battery systems and production or end-of-line test requirement definition.
• Familiarity with network and bus analysis tools (e.g. CAN/Ethernet traffic analysis Wireshark) for reviewing supplier communication behavior and diagnosing interface issues.
• Technical Skills
  • System architecture and functional partitioning; product attribute allocation; requirement decomposition and bidirectional traceability; verification strategy acceptance criteria and verification level allocation; interface control documentation; operating state and fault handling architecture; measurement accuracy and error budget allocation; functional safety and cybersecurity concept development FMEA and FMEDA; communication architecture and timing analysis; model-based systems engineering; high-voltage battery and cell-level fundamentals; supplier design assessment and technical review leadership.
    Tools: JAMA and Codebeamer JIRA SysML modeling tools MATLAB/Simulink CANalyzer/CANoe GitHub Python Wireshark.

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve 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 builderor 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 Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86600-$144900.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99100-$166200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates 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: sponsorship is not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.

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