# Research Engineer: Catia Application Developer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,600-$144,900
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

We seek an expert in Catia application development with a solid grasp of non-linear mechanics to architect a Manufacturing Digital Thread spanning Metal Forming (Stamping/Casting), Body Construction, and Paint. You will collaborate with domain experts to translate material physics into automated CAD/CAE applications, bridging engineering silos to optimize the structural attributes and minimize dimensional variation.

## Responsibilities

- App Development & Integration: Apply 3DEXPERIENCE (3DX)/Catia CAA tools using C++ and Python to create custom architect linkage programs to automate data flow between simulation solvers (Hypermesh, LS-DYNA, AutoForm) and CAD environments.

- Computational Performance: Ensure developed tools and data pipelines are robust and computationally efficient, minimizing latency and maximizing throughput for large-scale simulation data.

- Data Analytics & DOE: Lead statistical sensitivity studies and Design of Experiments (DOE) to optimize manufacturing robustness. Validate the accuracy and performance of 3DX implementations.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Ford subject matter experts in forming, joining, and surface science to develop a unified digital twin for stamping, structural casting, and coating workflows.

- Process Optimization: Streamline simulation run-times and automate data processing to enable 100% in-house feasibility validation and rapid design iterations.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Material Science and Engineering

- 2+ years of experience in industry and graduate study in application development using 3DExperience Catia CAA RADE

- Architectural Logic, Data & Integration: Highly proficient in 3DEXPERIENCE (3DX)/Catia CAA tools using C++ with experience using Python and MATLAB for linking disparate data formats

- Simulation: Knowledge of virtual manufacturing using CAE suites such as Ansys, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, or Nastran

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Python
- 3DEXPERIENCE
- Catia CAA
- CAE
- simulation

### Nice to have
- Solid Mechanics
- material deformation
- thermal-mechanical behavior
- Monte Carlo simulations
- Six Sigma principles

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