Power Management- Senior System Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Power Management and Systems Engineer, you will lead the systems engineering lifecycle for our next-generation vehicle power management platforms and advanced electrical architectures. In this highly collaborative role, you will act as a key technical bridge between internal engineering teams, cross-functional leaders, and external engineering partners.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead engineer for high-level (L0) system use-case development, decomposition, and review across core vehicle power platforms.

• Coordinate the systematic decomposition of Customer/Vehicle use cases into detailed sub-system levels and interface definitions.

• Conduct rigorous peer reviews with sub-system leaders to ensure alignment and coverage.

• Prepare and present critical safety use-case walkthroughs to ensure compliance with functional safety standards.

• Provide architectural guidance and review support across multi-platform vehicle programs.

• Partner with senior technical leaders and third-party engineering teams on higher-platform-scope system definitions.

• Clarify vehicle feature content against existing system use cases to identify discrepancies or scope gaps.

• Proactively drive gap identification and closure tracking with Technical Specialists (TS) to prepare for Energy and Electrical Management reviews.

• Serve as the primary technical liaison to external systems engineering partners.

• Guide partner teams on requirements decomposition and review the quality of System/Sub-System requirements to ensure they meet internal engineering standards.

• Proactively identify, document, and mitigate risks associated with partner delivery (e.g., scope creeping, under-delivery, or quality gaps).

• Manage the joint engineering review process and track the successful delivery of Program Increment (PI) commitments.

• Act as the lead technical investigator for change control tickets and system-level anomalies.

• Support deep-dive, system-level investigations to resolve complex power management integration issues.

• Capture investigation outcomes, technical findings, and subsequent tasks as actionable backlog items within agile project management tools.

• Serve as the lead author for High-Level Design (HLD) documentation for advanced power distribution and power net architectures and detailed System requirements documentation, SysML, Requirement Management tools.

• Drive the creation and implementation of standardized Power Management templates in collaboration with feature development teams.

• Coordinate with cross-functional engineering leaders to ensure technical alignment across hardware, software, and systems domains.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, automotive electrical architectures, power management, or energy distribution systems.

• Strong experience in requirements decomposition, use-case development, and system-level modeling.

• Proven track record of managing and providing technical oversight to external engineering suppliers or third-party design partners.

• Strong analytical skills with experience leading complex technical investigations and utilizing Change Control systems (e.g., Jira or similar agile tools).

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams, lead technical reviews, and document complex architectures clearly (e.g., via Confluence/Wikis).

Qualifications

• Familiarity with functional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262).

• Experience with vehicle energy management, low-voltage power distribution, or high-voltage battery systems.

• Experience working within Agile product development frameworks.

Skills

• Systems engineering

• Automotive electrical architectures

• Power management

• Energy distribution systems

• Functional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262)

• Vehicle energy management

• Low-voltage power distribution

• High-voltage battery systems

• Agile product development frameworks

Benefits

• 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

Pay

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $115,000-$192,900.

Schedule

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.