Hardware Engineer

• Own hardware design and execution for electric power components such as Power Distribution Units, Battery Management Systems, power converters, and inverters
• Develop and improve hardware development processes with the center of expertise
• Collaborate with semiconductor, DRE, software, PCB layout, mechanical engineering, supplier, validation, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, and safety teams
• Achieve program milestones through effective program management and execution strategies
• Lead embedded designs for advanced module architectures
• Lead new IC design and development strategies for advanced in-vehicle architectures
• Lead electrical schematic design and PCB layout
• Optimize hardware designs for cost, performance, reliability, and manufacturability
• Support digital and analog hardware designs including Ethernet, processors, memory, eFuses, FETs, HSD/LSD, and semiconductors
• Perform and review worst-case, power distribution, component compatibility, environmental, EMC, Weibull, and robustness analyses
• Represent the GM hardware team as a design expert in core technologies
• Optimize design verification tests and analyses, including five-point parametric testing and end-of-line production tests
• Lead development processes for supplier-owned and in-house designs, including PFMEA, control plans, monitoring systems, and EOL documentation
• Refine and optimize requirements against KPIs and maintain hardware design deliverables
• Lead peer reviews, resolve integration and interface issues, and support formal change control and ISO9001 documentation
• Support assembly plant issue resolution, product investigations, vehicle integration, and ECU warranty analysis
• Provide technical leadership for rapid issue resolution and root-cause analysis
• Lead cost-reduction initiatives from evaluation through implementation
• Provide direction to Design Release Engineers and create and maintain best practices
• Ensure KPIs for piece cost, investment, mass, base engineering content, performance, and IPTV are met
• Develop, review, and approve in-process electrical verification and component validation plans
• Develop improved analyses, simulations, and testing for standard validation plans
• Provide expertise in formal design, peer, and quality valve reviews
• Lead or support DFMEA, PFMEA, control plans, EOL testing, APQP, lean manufacturing, 8D issue resolution, ISO9001, and TS16949 compliance

Senior Hardware Design Engineer – Low Voltage Electric Power

• Design and develop automotive electronic control modules, PCB/circuit systems, and components for HUD, ICS, displays, and related products
• Perform field failure analysis, root cause analysis, and solution evaluation for production and electrical issues
• Manage project schedules and milestones
• Analyze OEM and internal requirements and translate them into hardware designs
• Support OEM development-stage events, vehicle-level validation, and automotive subsystem development
• Act as liaison between MOBIS HQ, OEMs, local teams, R&D, suppliers, and customers from concept through final design
• Coordinate design reviews, changes, feasibility reviews, and hardware engineering data/document delivery
• Work onsite at MNA and frequently offsite at OEM facilities
• Collaborate with research engineers from Korea and/or in Korea, including remote or business-site coordination
• Perform prolonged desk and computer work in an office environment

Senior Hardware Engineer – Circuit Design

• Define and manage requirements and system-level design for battery management systems used in Ford’s next-generation electrified vehicles
• Lead and participate in design reviews and worst-case circuit analyses to validate system robustness
• Perform circuit-level design and schematic capture for BMS electronics, including component selection and tolerance analysis
• Develop and run circuit and system simulations, including SPICE, transient, worst-case, and system-level models
• Support PCB layout and manufacturability by providing placement/routing guidance and reviewing Gerbers
• Ensure power distribution, thermal, and EMC considerations are addressed
• Investigate warranty and quality returns, perform root cause analysis, and implement product revisions to resolve field issues
• Drive supplier investigations and corrective actions
• Develop and oversee specialized test methods to replicate and diagnose failure modes
• Evaluate electrical system engineering alternatives across cost, weight, packaging, quality, benchmarking, geometry creation, and functional performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and other Ford engineers to update requirements in response to system changes
• Promote continuous improvement in designs, processes, and supplier quality controls

Battery Management Systems Hardware Engineer

• Lead development of next-generation inverter and power electronics hardware solutions for electric vehicle applications
• Use engineering tools, processes, and program management disciplines to develop components and systems meeting vehicle program requirements and cost, performance, efficiency, quality, and timing targets
• Perform Q3D or equivalent 2D/3D electromagnetic field-solver analysis for PCB and magnetics parasitics
• Design high-frequency transformers, inductors, planar magnetics, and PCB-embedded magnetics
• Conduct signal integrity, power integrity, and worst-case circuit analysis, including component tolerances and environmental variation
• Apply high-voltage PCB design practices, including creepage, clearance, insulation coordination, and partial-discharge considerations
• Develop layouts for fast-switching SiC or IGBT power stages, including gate-loop optimization and parasitic-inductance control
• Apply automotive EMI/EMC design practices for high-power converters, including filtering, grounding, shielding, and CISPR 25 requirements
• Coordinate PCB design with power modules, busbars, gate drivers, thermal interfaces, and mechanical packaging
• Lead advanced technology development through design, analysis, simulation, validation, and testing
• Develop advanced power converter hardware solutions for future EV performance, cost, reliability, and manufacturability requirements
• Create and support digital and analog hardware designs, including schematics, PCB layouts, simulations, and documentation
• Develop and optimize PCB layouts for functional, manufacturability, signal integrity, power integrity, EMC, thermal, and mechanical requirements
• Perform component placement, trace routing, stack-up definition, and layout optimization for high-density, high-speed, and mixed-signal electronic designs
• Create, review, and verify PCB layouts using DRC, DFM, and DFA methodologies
• Use modeling, simulation, systems analysis, and optimization tools to meet system-level requirements and interface considerations
• Collaborate with hardware designers, systems engineers, ECAD engineers, PCBA engineers, packaging engineers, manufacturing teams, and suppliers to optimize performance and production readiness

Hardware Engineer jobs in Michigan

Senior Hardware Design Engineer – Low Voltage Electric Power

Senior Hardware Engineer – Circuit Design

Battery Management Systems Hardware Engineer

Hardware Design Engineer – PCB Layout, Advanced Power Electronics