# Product Development Engineer - Seat Complete

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $65,100-$144,900
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters. We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Design Engineer to lead the design and development of the 2nd row seat for an upcoming forward model program.

Responsibilities:

- Develop seat designs that satisfy FMVSS/regulatory requirements, occupant safety targets, and internal corporate standards

- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure designs are optimized for assembly and plant installation

- Participate in tolerance stack-up analysis, GD&T application, and CAD/CAE collaboration

- Manage timing, budget, and mass targets for the 2nd row seat commodity throughout the program timeline

- Support prototype builds, seat fit/finish evaluations, and vehicle-level integration events

- Present design status, risks, and recommendations to program leadership and cross-functional teams at technical reviews

- Complete engineering deliverables throughout the complete program life on time with high quality for all milestones

- Balance competing design constraints: comfort, weight, cost, manufacturability, and packaging within tight vehicle architecture space claims

- Lead issue resolution to ensure deliverables are met throughout the various milestones

- Collaborate with suppliers to develop, validate, and release seat components; manage supplier design reviews and DFMEA/PFMEA activities

- Conduct and support Design Verification Plan and Report (DVP&R) testing; troubleshoot and resolve test failures through root-cause analysis and design iteration

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

- 2 years of engineering experience in the automotive industry

- Familiarity with seat complete integration and components

- Understanding of components and physical integration in vehicle

- Familiarity with FMVSS and ECE requirements

- CAD Skills: Skilled in 3D modeling software (e.g., Teamcenter/NX)

- Design quality methods such as DFMEA to identify and prevent potential issues early

- Experience with global project management and leading cross-functional teams

Benefits:

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Mechatronics Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- CAD
- DFMEA
- Project Management

### Nice to have
- Seat complete integration
- FMVSS and ECE requirements
- Global project management
- Cross-functional teams leadership

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