Associate Chassis Engineer

Ford, Inc; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental & vision coverage

Family care days

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Associate Chassis Engineer in California, Long Beach, to drive design, development, and validation of chassis components and sub-systems including brakes, steering, wheels, tires, and suspension.

You will bridge first-principles engineering with advanced manufacturing to optimize driving dynamics, efficiency, mass, and cost across concept development, validation, and full-vehicle testing.

Qualifications

• Experience in chassis design and validation using first-principles engineering.
• Ability to lead data-driven specifications for system sizing and safety attributes.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration across manufacturing, service, and launch teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop novel chassis concepts balancing performance, mass, cost and manufacturability.
• Define data-driven specifications aligned with standards and customer requirements.
• Validate feasibility through cross-functional collaboration and analysis tools.
• Lead prototyping, testing, and vehicle dynamics evaluation from components to full vehicle.

Skills

Chassis design

FEM analysis

Vehicle dynamics

Cross-functional

Job description

As an Associate Chassis Engineer, you will drive the design, development, and execution of novel chassis components and sub-systems—including brakes, steering, wheels, tires, and suspension platforms. You will bridge first-principles engineering with advanced manufacturing techniques to optimize driving dynamics, efficiency, structural mass, and cost. Working across concept development, physical/virtual validation, and full-vehicle testing, you will play a central role in delivering best-in-class vehicle attributes for our next‑generation vehicle portfolio.

What you'll do...

Advanced Concept Design & System Engineering

• Design and develop novel chassis concepts (brakes, steering, suspension, wheels, and tires) that balance driving dynamics, vehicle mass, cost, efficiency, manufacturability, and serviceability.

Requirements Definition & Attribute Optimization

• Challenge legacy design requirements and define data-driven, first-principles specifications for system sizing, functional performance, and safety attributes.
• Align system performance targets with regulatory standards, customer requirements, and vehicle dynamics.

Feasibility, Analysis & Cross-Functional Validation

• Evaluate and validate the manufacturing, assembly, and service feasibility of proposed designs in close collaboration with manufacturing, service, and launch teams.
• Utilize advanced engineering analysis tools to simulate, stress-test, and iterate design proposals prior to physical build.

Prototyping, Testing & Vehicle Dynamics Evaluation

• Lead the design, build, and validation testing at the components, sub-systems, and full-vehicle level.
• Conduct both subjective and objective evaluations of braking, steering, ride, and handling attributes across production vehicles, prototype test mules, and driver-in-the-loop simulators.
• Analyze test data to troubleshoot root causes, iterate designs, and refine vehicle performance attributes.

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.

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:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a GSR-6 and ranges from $100,400-$168,000.

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.

Visa sponsorship is 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.