# Senior Power Electronics Design Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $185,869.00 - $213,629.04/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 Senior Power Electronics Design Engineer. You'll work on delivering breakthrough products and services that delight customers, focusing on advancements in autonomy, electrification, and smart mobility technologies.

## Responsibilities

As a Senior Power Electronics Design Engineer, you will:

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

- Develop manufacturing processes, including running Design of Experiments (DOEs) and executing process validation.

- Design and execute physical tests in a lab environment, including designing fixtures and 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 applications.

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

- Domestic and International Travel Required up to 20%.

## Qualifications

You will have:

- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

- 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

- 5 years of experience with designing mechanical parts and assemblies using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software.

- 3 years of experience with analyzing the design of mechanical systems using Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) tools, including Finite Element Analysis (FEA).

- 2 years of experience with analyzing production inspection data for mechanical and electrical components using statistical tools, Minitab, and Excel.

- 2 years of experience with transitioning power electronic device designs to production at high volumes, working with manufacturing vendors to produce built-to-print mechanical components, performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and performing Design of Experiments (DOE).

## 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
- Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
- Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Minitab
- Excel
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Design of Experiments (DOE)

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