BMS Software Development Engineer
Ford MotorBase Salary
$87k - $166k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and own operating state machines, mode management, and supervisory coordination across multiple controllers.
- Implement high-voltage sequencing, including precharge, contactor control, contactor diagnostics, and interlock handling.
- Develop battery protection strategies for voltage, current, temperature, isolation loss, and thermal events.
- Calculate and arbitrate current and power limits, including derating and coordination across system levels.
- Implement cell-balancing demand logic and coordinate balancing across modules and strings.
- Develop thermal management controls, actuation strategies, setpoints, and thermal diagnostics.
- Aggregate measured and estimated states and propagate faults and annunciations to external systems.
- Own diagnostic strategy covering fault detection, debounce, classification, storage, clearing, and reporting.
- Integrate and calibrate estimation models and own the production calibration parameter set and documentation.
- Develop application software using model-based development, production code generation, and hand-written C where appropriate.
- Author requirements and design documentation traceable to system requirements and support safety and security analyses.
- Support validation debugging, root-cause analysis, and field-issue resolution.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, Mechatronics, Controls, or Mechanical Engineering.
- At least 5 years of experience developing embedded application or control software for electronic control units.
- Proficiency in model-based development with production code generation and working ability in C.
- Demonstrated production-program experience designing state machines, sequencing, and diagnostic strategies.
- Experience with requirements-driven development, traceability, unit testing, and code reviews.
- Ability to debug control behavior directly on hardware, benches, and instrumentation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability and willingness to travel occasionally.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls, or a related technical field.
- Preferred experience includes battery management controls, high-voltage systems, functional safety processes, calibration, distributed-controller coordination, and thermal management control strategy.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
- Family-building benefits including adoption and surrogacy reimbursement and fertility treatments.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance and established employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for individual and team community service.
- Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day.
- Paid time off with the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite attendance four or more days per week.
- Visa sponsorship is not available, and candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
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