# Power Electronics Design Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Palo Alto
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $118,700-$232,700
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We're seeking a talented Power Electronics Design Engineer to join our Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team. As a key member of our team, you'll own complex drive unit inverter sub-components from concept through production, including development of related assembly and manufacturing processes. Your expertise will drive the development of parts and processes with substantial impact on vehicle-level cost and performance.

Responsibilities:

- Own inverter mechanical parts from concept through production including part design and release.

- Develop manufacturing processes including running DOEs and executing process validation.

- Design and execute physical tests in a lab environment, including designing fixtures / test equipment.

- Plan, coordinate, and execute test campaigns for design verification of inverter sub-components and the inverter system.

- Optimize costs from design to manufacturing and create robust designs for automotive application.

- Own mechanical parts for inverters, driving optimization for durability, efficiency, and performance.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- Robust foundation in engineering first principles with good engineering judgement.

- Intellectual honesty, curiosity, and humility.

- Strong CAD skills (Catia / 3DX preferred).

- Hands-on experience building and testing hardware in a prototype / lab environment (strong workshop skills preferred).

Even better, you may have:

- 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and releasing products (power electronics or similar devices brought to production preferred)

- Passionate and curious about deep technical problems and driven to deliver engineering excellence.

- Experience releasing prototype and production parts including drafting, GD&T, tolerance analysis, and DFM.

- Experience managing or working closely with manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, and in-house manufacturing teams to bring parts to production.

- Experience using finite element methods for optimizing and validating structural, thermal, and electrical systems.

- Experience designing and executing durability and design verification campaigns.

- Experience leading design / process FMEAs for electronics and/or automotive systems.

- Experience designing parts, fixtures, and tools for prototype manufacturing processes including CNC milling / turning / EDM, 3D printing, press-brake sheet metal, and low volume tooled processes.

- Experience designing parts for high volume manufacturing processes including casting, forging, stamping, extruding, injection molding, overmolding, and machining.

- Experience troubleshooting / triaging prototype and production build issues.

- Strong written and verbal communication / presentation / story-telling skills.

- Strong cross-functional collaboration and project leadership skills.

## Skills

### Required
- mechanical engineering
- CAD skills
- hands-on experience building and testing hardware
- finite element methods
- durability and design verification campaigns
- design / process FMEAs
- CNC milling / turning / EDM
- 3D printing
- press-brake sheet metal
- low volume tooled processes
- high volume manufacturing processes
- troubleshooting / triaging prototype and production build issues

### Nice to have
- 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and releasing products
- passionate and curious about deep technical problems
- driven to deliver engineering excellence
- experience releasing prototype and production parts
- experience managing or working closely with manufacturing partners
- experience using finite element methods for optimizing and validating structural, thermal, and electrical systems

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