# Staff Powertrain Performance Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,520 - $276,600
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this position, you will be part of Ford Model E, which is responsible for developing key technologies for electric vehicles, such as EV platforms, batteries, e-motors, inverters, charging, and recycling.

As a Staff Powertrain Performance Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

- Leading range and performance studies for advanced electric vehicles

- Planning workstreams to deliver range and performance targets for programs

- Creating and modifying tools for range and performance prediction

- Developing sensitivity analyses to understand design spaces and trade-offs

- Hiring and leading a team of range and performance engineers

- Creating vehicle-aligned component and system targets

- Processing data and improving models with on-road vehicle usage data and homologation cycles

- Leading design reviews, test plans, and requirements reviews

- Enabling effective communications with subsystems and other engineering teams

- Presenting concepts and status to senior management and company personnel

- Supporting software-in-the-loop strategies and execution

To qualify, you will need:

- A B.S. in Aerodynamics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

- 7+ years of experience developing physics-based models and understanding vehicle performance

- 1+ year of experience homologating and launching a new product

- 2+ years of experience leading a team

- High proficiency in Python, Matlab, Simulink, or Dymola

Preferred qualifications include:

- A Master's or Ph.D. in Aerodynamics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field

- Experience with controls strategies for vehicle powertrain/dynamics systems

- Experience with Microsoft Office, Confluence, and Jira applications

- Experience with instrumentation and measurement of homologation cycles

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

The salary range for this position is $146,520 - $276,600 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Matlab
- Simulink
- Dymola
- Aerodynamics
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Physics

### Nice to have
- controls strategies
- Microsoft Office
- Confluence
- Jira
- instrumentation and measurement

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