Senior Power Management and Systems Architect

We are looking for a Senior Power Management and Systems Architect to help lead this transformation. In this role, you won't just be designing a power system for a single vehicle program — you'll be architecting the foundational platform strategy that powers an entire portfolio of current and next-generation vehicles, spanning Retail, Commercial, and Ford Pro customer bases. You will define how power is generated, stored, distributed, and controlled;

how the system behaves across every lifecycle mode a vehicle experiences; and how that architecture scales, adapts, and remains resilient as new features, markets, and technologies emerge.

You will own the end-to-end architecture of the Powernet system and act as the connective tissue between software, hardware, and cross-functional teams — ensuring that every layer of the platform works in concert to deliver a differentiated, reliable customer experience. This is a role for a systems thinker who can operate at both the strategic and detailed technical level: someone who can architect a multi-year platform vision while also being fluent enough in the details to guide teams through complex trade-off decisions, feasibility assessments, and design reviews — including the safety-critical implications of those decisions.

This role sits at a rare intersection of deep technical expertise and broad strategic influence. You will work hand-in-hand with software architects to define a layered platform architecture that is decoupled from any single vehicle's electrical implementation — enabling reuse, scalability, and faster innovation across programs. You will partner with hardware, networking, and feature teams to translate ambitious platform goals into rigorous High-Level Designs, system requirements, and safety-conscious architecture decisions — including evaluating ASIL requirements and supporting Functional Safety assessments to ensure the platform is not only capable, but trustworthy.

And you'll help push the organization forward by championing AI-enabled and agile approaches to systems engineering itself — from rapid prototyping of new concepts to building intelligent knowledge systems that make the entire architecture team faster and smarter.

If you're energized by systems-level thinking, enjoy translating ambiguity into clear architecture and actionable roadmaps, and want your technical decisions to shape how millions of vehicles manage power for years to come, this role offers a rare opportunity to leave a lasting mark on the future of the vehicle platform.

• Define the architecture and strategic direction of newer power management platform designed to scale across vehicle programs and customer segments.
• Serve as a key technical authority and mentor within the Power System Architecture team, shaping how the organization approaches system design, safety, and innovation.
• Act as the critical bridge between software, hardware, networking, and cross-functional leadership — as well as external engineering partners — ensuring the platform vision is executed with precision and coherence.
• Help modernize how systems engineering itself is done, bringing AI-driven tools and agile methods into a traditionally document-heavy discipline.

• Define and lead a technology platform development methodology that decouples core platform capabilities from underlying vehicle electrical architecture, enabling reuse and adaptability across diverse markets and vehicle programs.
• Partner with software architects to define the System Platform Layer, establishing clear goals, KPIs, and foundational capabilities for each architectural layer.
• Craft the strategy by which platform layers interoperate to deliver targeted feature- and experience-level outcomes, ensuring architectural coherence from silicon to software.
• Evaluate optimal allocation of platform functionality across hardware platforms, balancing system performance constraints against feature and experience KPIs.
• Define the strategy for deploying platform layers across the ECU landscape, ensuring middleware…