Product Development Engineer – Power Electronics Control

🕒 March 6

🏢🏡 Dearborn – Hybrid

💵 $84.5k - $141.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

🚗 Transport

🔧 Hardware

👥 B2C

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $3G Post IPO debt on 2025-08

Transport • Hardware • B2C

Ford Motor Company is a global automotive manufacturer that designs, engineers, produces, markets, and services a wide range of passenger cars, SUVs, trucks, commercial vehicles, and electrified vehicles. The company operates vehicle sales through dealer networks and direct digital channels, provides financing and insurance services (Ford Credit, Ford Insure), offers connected vehicle software and services (SYNC, Ford app, BlueCruise), and supplies parts, service, and fleet solutions through Ford Pro. Ford also invests in electrification, battery manufacturing, and sustainability initiatives while maintaining substantial manufacturing and R&D operations worldwide.

📋 Description

• Responsible for the design and optimization of the modulation and control algorithms for various power conversion modules, including bi-directional onboard chargers and DC/DC converters for all operating modes and conditions. • Develop novel control strategies to improve system performance, robustness, and costs through extensive modeling and HIL simulation. • Work closely with systems, hardware, software, and test engineers on the team to plan, implement and validate the control strategies. • Work with power conversion module suppliers to ensure and help improve the stability and performance of their control strategies. • Provide support to resolve customer concerns, investigate and troubleshoot system faults and errors. • Connect with focus groups and forums to stay at the forefront of technological advancements to keep the team abreast of the latest power conversion topologies and control techniques.

🎯 Requirements

• Master or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering; or a combination of equivalent experience and education. • 3+ years of working experience in power converter control design and development. • Deep understanding of various high-power conversion topologies (PFC, CLLC and DAB DC/DC etc.), including their operation principles and switching/commutation details. • Solid circuit and system-level modeling and simulation skills using common tools, such as PLECS and Simulink. • Experience in simulation, design, and testing with real-time HIL. • Hands-on experience implementing modulation and close-loop control of soft-switching OBC and high-power DC/DC products • Strong communicator, able to effectively present to technical audiences. • Team player working in a diverse group in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. • Self-starting with solid follow-through and multitasking abilities; able to work with limited supervision.

🏖️ 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 • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.