Staff Range and Performance Engineer

Ford-Motor-Company; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave and family care

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off and holidays

Employee resource groups

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to develop physics-based models predicting vehicle performance and optimize system design for electric and conventional platforms.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, validate models with real-world data, and drive efficiency improvements across vehicle attributes. A leadership role focused on ensuring optimal design and seamless integration across engineering disciplines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerodynamics, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or Physics.
• 7+ years developing physics-based models for vehicle performance.
• 3+ years homologating and launching a new product.
• High proficiency in Python/Matlab/Simulink/Dymola.
• Experience with Jira/Confluence or similar tracking tools.

Responsibilities

• Create and modify tools for range and performance prediction.
• Develop system- and vehicle-level cost/performance assessments and trade-offs.
• Integrate control systems and plant models from other domains.
• Perform platform-level optimization for vehicle attributes.
• Run sensitivity analyses to explore design space and trade-offs.
• Set vehicle-aligned targets for function, cost, weight, etc.
• Work with fleet data to improve models using on-road data.
• Lead design reviews, test plans, and requirements reviews.
• Communicate concepts and status to senior management and engineers.

Skills

Python/Matlab/Simulink/Dymola

Jira/Confluence

Education

Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or Physics

Masters or PhD in Automotive/Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or Physics

Job description

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position your lines of code will make our future more sustainable. As a systems engineer you will develop, modify, and correlate physics-based models for the system and subsystems that accurately predict vehicle performance. Your optimization will fight physics to find the most desirable outcome for the vehicle and our customers. You will work closely across functional teams to identify gains in efficiency and model/predict and test them.

What you'll do...

• Create and modify tools of different fidelity for range and performance prediction
• Create tools for system and vehicle level cost/performance and assess trade-offs
• Integrate control systems & plant models from other functional domains
• Platform-level optimization for vehicle attributes
• Run sensitivity analyses to understand the design space and tradeoffs
• Create vehicle-aligned component and system targets for function, cost, weight and more
• Work with fleet data and make model improvements with on-road vehicle usage data and homologation cycles
• Lead and contribute to design reviews, test plans, and requirements reviews to further optimize vehicle efficiency and performance cross functionally
• Enable effective communications with subsystems and other engineering teams to deliver optimal design solutions
• Support presentations of concepts and status to senior management and internally to Company personnel in an integration and subject matter expert role

You’ll have...

• Bachelor's Degree in Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Physics or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 7+ years of experience of developing physics-based models and an understanding of how that relates to vehicle performance
• 3+ year of experience homologating and launching a new product
• High proficiency in any of Python/Matlab/Simulink/Dymola
• Experience with Jira/Confluence or a similar system for tracking inputs/results

Even better, you may have...

• Masters or PhD Automotive/Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field
• Experience with controls strategies for vehicle powertrain/dynamics systems
• Experience with Microsoft Office, Confluence, and Jira applications
• Experience with instrumentation and measurement of homologation cycles
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team
• A system approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement

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 leadership level 6 and ranges from $150,200-$283,500. 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.

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This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #UEV