Senior Powertrain Structures Design Engineer

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...
The Senior Powertrain Structures Design Engineer will be responsible for power unit case housing and structures design. This engineer will drive part placement and power unit architecture from concept phase thru part analysis, optimization, DFM, and eventually production. You will integrate, analyze, and iterate the powertrain components both internally and in vehicle package.

What you'll do...

Define durability and duty cycle requirements.
Work with CAE support to topology optimize housings, mounts and other structures.
Investigate exploratory materials and composites.
Cost optimization with vehicle bounties.
Create robust designs for automotive applications and for automated mass manufacturing.
Contribute to design reviews and requirements reviews to further optimize the powertrain system cross functionally.
Support presentations of concepts and status to senior management and internally to company personnel.
Drive powertrain innovations of future technologies that provide benefit to the product; both short- and long-term roadmap items.
Perform rapid calculations and mechanical layout iterations in CAD in order to validate assumptions and funnel design concepts down.
Generate and maintain detailed 3D CAD of entire power unit assemblies and production drawings. Foster good CAD practices.
Aid prototype power unit builds and drive development and validation testing campaigns.
Manage subcomponent interfaces and related workstreams/requirements, including all power unit tolerance analysis.
Collaborate closely with powertrain modeling, NVH, controls, and test engineering functions.
Lead key design reviews and visualization or demonstration activities.

You'll have...

Bachelor's or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

5+ year track record of detailed mechanical design and manufacturing execution of precision machinery.
Fundamental understanding of high pressure die casting, mold flow, case fatigue, topology optimization theory.
Knowledge of high-volume manufacturing processes, materials, and supply chains.
Strong engineering fundamentals in the areas of materials, mechanics, dynamics, design for manufacturability, tolerancing, high precision metrology, process control, statistics.
Experience with 3D CAD and 2D drafting skills.

Even better, you may have...
Hands-on experience building and launching automotive products.
Cad experience using 3DX or CATIA V5/V6.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience using Confluence, Jira, Asana, or other project management tools.
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.
Experience in high pressure die cast design work.

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, we encourage you to apply!

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 salary grade 8 and ranges from $138,800-$232,700.  
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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #LI-JD2 #UEV