Technical Specialist, Battery Algorithms and Digital Twin, Ford Energy

Location: Dearborn, MI, United States; Hybrid

Ford Energy is a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating U.S. energy independence. Leveraging Ford’s century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, Ford Energy designs, manufactures, and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS). Ford Energy is uniquely positioned to capture the growing demand for reliable, US-built energy storage systems. We are not just building batteries; we are building the infrastructure for the next generation of the American grid.
 

Why Ford Energy?
At Ford Energy, you have the backing of an industrial manufacturing powerhouse with the agility of a dedicated energy startup offering industry leading technology. We offer a competitive compensation package including performance-based bonuses, Ford vehicle discounts, and the opportunity to shape the energy strategy of one of the world's most iconic brands. Learn more at https://fordenergy.com.
 

In this position... 
Ford Energy is seeking a Technical Specialist to own the battery intelligence stack for our BESS products: the state estimation, diagnostics, prognostics, and digital twin capabilities that determine how safely, reliably, and profitably a storage system performs over a life of 20+ years.

This role is for someone who has already shipped battery algorithms and wants to do it again at the start of a new product line. You will set the technical direction and stay hands-on, building, validating, and deploying algorithms that run on production BMS hardware and in the cloud, from cell to pack to container. Because Ford Energy is new, your decisions on architecture, data, and validation will become the foundation of the platform, not a patch on an existing one. You will work most closely with the BESS Cell, Modeling, BMS, EMS, and Digital Services teams, and draw on Ford's Auto battery organization for proven methods and test data, adapting them to stationary storage, where duty cycle, chemistry, and business case differ.

What you will own...

• Production-grade state estimation: SOC, SOH, Dynamic OCV, and power/energy capability estimators that meet defined accuracy, robustness, and compute targets across temperature, aging, and partial-cycle duty.
• A deployable digital twin architecture: a defined edge (BMS/EMS) and cloud split, with data, model, and interface specifications agreed with BMS, EMS, and Digital Services.
• A field-data feedback loop: a working pipeline from operating systems to model recalibration, with drift monitoring and a release process for algorithm updates.
• Prognostics the business can use: degradation and Remaining Useful Life (RUL) models with quantified uncertainty that support warranty, performance guarantees, and dispatch decisions.
• Early-warning diagnostics: fault and anomaly detection that contributes to the safety case, with false-alarm and missed-detection targets set and measured.
• A validation framework: test-to-field correlation, SIL/HIL coverage, and release criteria the whole organization trusts.

About Ford Energy Ford Energy is a newly formed, wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating US energy independence. Leveraging Ford’s century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, Ford Energy designs, manufactures, and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS). Ford Energy is uniquely positioned to capture the growing demand for reliable, US-built energy storage systems. We are not just building batteries; we are building the infrastructure for the next generation of the American grid.