Vehicle Structures Architecture Engineer

At Ford Motor Company, we are seeking a Vehicle Structures Architecture Engineer to join our team in Dearborn, Michigan. As a Vehicle Structures Architecture Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing new sheet metal Top hat BIW architectures with a focus on bodyside and roof development. Your work will help create cost-efficient, lightweight vehicles that cater to various occupancy and propulsion systems.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new sheet metal Top hat BIW architectures with a focus on bodyside and roof development
• Collaborate extensively with Safety, Research, Manufacturing, Closures, Platform Structures, Materials Engineering, and Vehicle Program Teams to develop efficient and feasible BIW solutions
• Create Catia (V5 / 3DX) sheet metal studies and proposals to review with affected teams
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of new and critical competitive benchmarks to fully understand Best-in-Class designs
• Validation and optimization of standard and mixed-metal joint designs in BIW architectures
• Close cooperation with Safety and CAE teams for the development of new architectures
• Work closely with Studio Engineering to ensure designs are evocative, cost competitive, and feasible to manufacture
• Development of new lightweight designs including stamping of new materials, Aluminum High Pressure Die Casting, Plastic-Metal Hybrids, Multi-Piece-Integration (MPI) technologies, and new material grades of aluminum and steel sheet materials
• Deliver a robust hand-off to Applications Structures Engineering for seamless progression toward optimization
• Use AI to improve development efficiency, development time, reduce cost, while improving quality

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
• Minimum of 4 years' experience in Tophat or Platform Body Structure sheet metal or Closures sheet metal product development
• Experience with Advanced Technology development – particularly in body structure
• Candidate has the ability to perform feasibility analyses using CAD tools
• Working knowledge and experience with Engineering toolsets to derive, communicate, and publish 3D surfaces via Catia V5/TeamCenter Engineering and/or Catia V6/3DX

Benefits:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• 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
• Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays