# Vehicle Structures Architecture Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $65,100-$166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

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

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## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Automotive Engineering
- Catia V5
- Catia 3DX
- CAD tools

### Nice to have
- Master of Science degree in Engineering
- Body Engineering Design and Release experience
- Expert level Catia V5 or 3DX
- Strong skillset in Systems interaction and integration

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