# Senior Chassis Design Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $135,420-$226,980
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this position, you will join a team of talented engineers working on the development of electric vehicles and digital experiences. We are looking for a Senior Chassis Design Engineer to lead the design and development of novel brakes, steering, wheel, tire, and suspension concepts. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mechanical engineering and experience in the automotive industry.

Responsibilities:

- Design and develop novel brakes, steering, wheel, tire, and suspension concepts that improve product cost, mass, efficiency, manufacturability, serviceability, and driving dynamics

- Challenge existing design requirements and define new design requirements for system sizing, functions, and features based on regulations, first principles, and product attributes

- Assess and validate manufacturing, assembly, and service feasibility of design proposals

- Design, analyze, build, and test prototypes at component, subsystem, and full vehicle level

- Subjectively and objectively evaluate braking, steering, ride and handling attributes in production vehicles, prototype vehicles, and simulator

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

- 3+ years experience in automotive or related field, EV preferred

- Strong engineering fundamentals, and ability to apply broadly to vehicle systems and manufacturing processes

- Strong proficiency in 3D modelling, Catia and 3D Experience preferred

- Excellent technical collaboration and communication, written and verbal

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

Salary:

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $135,420-226,980.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Automotive Engineering
- 3D Modelling
- Catia
- 3D Experience
- Vehicle Systems
- Manufacturing Processes

### Nice to have
- Experience designing, prototyping, and testing mechanical and electromechanical systems
- Experience developing and delivering a chassis system from concept to production
- Strong working knowledge of all chassis systems and vehicle dynamics fundamentals
- Proficiency in manufacturing and assembly methods and GD&T
- Strong proficiency in Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA)

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