High Voltage Core Systems Engineer
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Job overview
Ford Motor Company seeks a High Voltage Core Systems Engineer to develop engineering documentation and processes for high-voltage and battery systems. The role leads projects and cross-functional work on system requirements, architecture, technical assessments, and design specifications, while supporting battery teams through the GPDS process. The position is hybrid, with an onsite requirement of four or more days per week.
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In this position...
We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our core high voltage systems engineering team. The
engineer in this role is responsible for developing core engineering documentation including, requirements,
design rules, test methods, design reviews, DFMEAs, P-diagrams, boundary diagrams, and SCCPs for new and
existing technologies in the domain of high voltage systems and high voltage battery systems.
This position will be expected to work cross-functionally with eDrive, non-motive power conversion, charging, and controls teams as well as interface with Vehicle Energy Management Engineering, Vehicle Architecture, and Systems
Engineering teams. You will also be responsible for supporting the broader high voltage applications teams and
high voltage battery unit teams as they progress through the GPDS process.
What you'll do...
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Act as project lead for high voltage electrical system projects and studies including failure modeassessment, prevent recurrence actions, cost optimization studies, new architecture studies, costreduction actions, and new technology adoption studies.
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Lead the development of a core generic high voltage system design specification document and definethe supporting pre-PS and post-PS processes and cross functional responsibilities.
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Lead cross functional interfaces within EPE to map the EPE Core process for HV Battery design, attributeimplementation, and information exchange across HV systems, component teams, and VEME.
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Develop traceability between xEV attributes and requirements to improve unit workbook processes andhigh voltage architecture decision making.
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Lead global implementation of the Technical Assessment Process and support battery technical leader incontinuous improvement actions and process definition.
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Support the development of generic high voltage electrical architecture, including high voltage electricallayout and subsystem interaction, to optimize high voltage system-level designs.
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Support high voltage core systems technical specialists with their development of core engineeringprocesses, reviews and sign-offs, and development of advanced high voltage batter concepts withfoundation document development, optimization analysis, and trade-off studies.
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Author HV Battery Unit Requirements (RQT), Design Rules (DR), and Test Methods (TM), and progressthem through internal review and approval processes (Tech Clubs and EDC) to release to FEDE.
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Support the unit workbook process
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Support DFMEA development
You'll have...
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Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Electrical, Systems, or equivalent Engineering discipline
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2+ years of high-voltage battery or equivalent EV powertrain integration / program experience
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Excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills
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Ability to facilitate team meetings, effectiveness interfacing with cross-functional teams
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Candidates must be able to work under operational pressures, set priorities and self-manage
Even better, you may have...
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M.S. in Electrical, Systems, or equivalent Engineering discipline
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2+ years vehicle program experience – PAT, PMT or D&R
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System or vehicle attribute advocacy experience, knowledgeable of Systems V Process: target setting,
cascade process, assessment and reporting
- Experience writing and issuing of functional requirements, design rules and foundation documentation
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!
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 builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
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Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
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Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
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Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
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Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
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Tuition assistance
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Established and active employee resource groups
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Paid time off for individual and team community service
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A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
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Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is a salary grade 5 to salary grade 8. Salary grade ranges from $65,100-$109,300; salary grade 6 ranges from $74,300-$124,500; salary grade 7 ranges from $86,600-$144,900; salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR (https://urldefense.com/v3/\_\_https:/fordcareers.co/GSR\_\_;!!N\_LtwI-RPugbI9wg0dJn!GWHaCagNA-RMf\_0m3U9KP7u6lEkt5ckTfwuLMI5m1sJR4AqKRlEO1hiQrJyPwXYomPfbDv0\_2Br07Fbg$)
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.
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How this job compares
Set against the 11,696 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$65–166K/yr
- Michigan median$100–166K/yr76 salary ranges
- US median$116–190K/yr8,703 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $116K, is 15% below the Michigan median midpoint ($136K) — in the lowest quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Michigan.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 169 open Systems Engineer jobs in Michigan and 11,696 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Michigan
- General Motors28 open
- Ford Motor Company (this employer)21 open
- Oracle8 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,778 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 4,476 of the 11,696 open Systems Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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