Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer, EV and Power Electronics

Ford Model E develops technologies and capabilities supporting electric vehicle platforms, batteries, electric motors, inverters, charging solutions, and recycling.

As a Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer, you will design, develop, debug, and integrate embedded firmware for electric vehicle and power-electronics products. You will work with microcontroller-based systems in bare-metal and real-time operating system environments.

This hands-on role covers embedded C/C++ development, low-level driver integration, hardware bring-up, diagnostics, and firmware support for design-validation activities. You will collaborate with hardware, systems, and validation engineers to support product bring-up, automated testing, issue resolution, and production-release readiness.

Design, develop, test, and maintain embedded firmware in C and C++ for microcontroller-based products.Develop firmware for bare-metal and real-time operating system environments.Implement and debug low-level device drivers, boot sequences, diagnostics, communication interfaces, and application-level firmware.Support board bring-up and hardware-software integration.Investigate system issues and perform root-cause analysis using embedded debugging interfaces and laboratory equipment.Develop diagnostic functions, test modes, data-logging capabilities, calibration support, and automation interfaces for product design validation.Create scripts and lightweight tools for test automation, log analysis, regression checks, and validation support.Collaborate with hardware, systems, test, and validation teams to resolve integration issues.Participate in code reviews, defect triage, integration testing, technical documentation, and release-readiness activities.Follow applicable software-development, coding-quality, and configuration-management processes.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, computer engineering, computer science, embedded systems, or a related discipline.At least five years of hands-on embedded firmware development experience in automotive, electric vehicle, industrial, power-electronics, or another high-reliability product environment.Strong programming skills in embedded C, with working knowledge of C++.Experience developing firmware in bare-metal or real-time operating system environments.Understanding of interrupts, timers, memory management, watchdogs, microcontroller peripherals, and real-time debugging.Experience with one or more embedded communication interfaces, such as Controller Area Network, Controller Area Network Flexible Data-Rate, Serial Peripheral Interface, Inter-Integrated Circuit, Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter, Ethernet, Local Interconnect Network, or Modbus.Hands-on experience using relevant laboratory and debugging tools, such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, power supplies, JTAG or Serial Wire Debug debuggers, and protocol analyzers.Experience supporting product validation through firmware diagnostics, test modes, logging, automation interfaces, or regression testing.Working knowledge of Git-based version control, code reviews, defect tracking, and technical documentation.Ability to collaborate effectively with hardware, systems, and validation teams.

Preferred Requirements

Experience in one or more of the following areas: automotive electronics, electric vehicle supply equipment, vehicle charging, battery management systems, inverters, power electronics, or safety-critical embedded products.Familiarity with MISRA C coding guidelines, ISO 26262 functional safety, Automotive Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, or comparable regulated software-development processes.Experience with Unified Diagnostic Services, diagnostic trouble codes, software-in-the-loop testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or automated bench testing.Experience using Python for test automation, tooling, or log analysis.Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, static-analysis tools, and embedded unit-testing frameworks.Experience with Vector tools such as CANalyzer or CANoe.