# Vehicle Thermal Systems CAE Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $125,362.00 - $166,200.00/yr
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress.

Join the Ford Product Development team as a Vehicle Thermal Systems CAE Engineer. You'll analyze the vehicle climate system that cools and heats the vehicle cabin and battery using various CAE methods.

## Responsibilities

As a Vehicle Thermal Systems CAE Engineer, you'll:

- Analyze vehicle climate system performance and power consumption

- Conduct studies on vehicle level climate performance predictions, refrigerant subsystem analysis, heater subsystem analysis, front end airflow, and power consumption analysis

- Review physical test data

- Travel up to 10% domestically

## Qualifications

You'll have:

- Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, or a related field

- 5 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation

- 5 years of experience with testing, analyzing, and designing automotive thermal systems, modeling and conducting thermal/fluid CAE simulations using Fluent, STAR-CCM+, or GT-Suite, and utilizing CAD software tools including CATIA or Teamcenter

- 3 years of experience with testing and analyzing vehicle climate control performance using thermal data acquisition systems, CANoe, or MATLAB, and designing Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) thermal systems using one of the following thermal modeling applications: Fluent, STAR-CCM, or GT-Suite

## Benefits

We offer:

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care, 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
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aeronautical Engineering
- Fluid Dynamics
- Thermodynamics
- Heater Transfer
- Combustion
- Fluent
- STAR-CCM+
- GT-Suite
- CATIA
- Teamcenter
- Thermal Data Acquisition Systems
- CANoe
- MATLAB

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