# Hardware Architecture Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Hardware Architecture Manager leads the global department that defines early underbody architecture, focusing on suspension, steering, brakes, and wheels/tires.

You will lead chassis architecture from program start through the early UNVx milestones of GPDS, integrating all chassis commodities with frames/subframes, body structure, driveline, and propulsion across every global vehicle platform.

## Responsibilities

### Strategic Accountabilities

- Own the multi-year underbody architecture roadmap, including common interfaces, scalable building blocks, and design rules that reduce variation and complexity across global platforms.

- Translate vehicle strategy, cycle plans, and technology vectors into architecture decisions, investment priorities, and resource plans, ensuring a 5–10 year view shapes near-term program choices.

- Partner with Vehicle Architecture, Vehicle Engineering, Program Leadership, and Underbody Systems leadership to negotiate trade-offs among cost, weight, timing, performance, and complexity.

- Serve as the Underbody Systems point of contact for Vehicle Planning and Programs on hardware definition, weight, tool/facility investment, engineering headcount, and GPDS milestone alignment.

- Lead architectural milestone reviews, health charts, design-rule adherence, and sourcing package definition with Supply Chain and downstream underbody engineering.

- Benchmark competitors and bridge Research & Advanced Engineering to industrialization of chassis tech vectors, partnering with Technical Experts.

### Transformation Leadership

- Champion “Engineer as Designer,” strengthening CATIA/3DX, CAE, and ADAMS MBD proficiency.

- Implement an internal Build-to-Print strategy for key chassis commodities, growing engineering expertise as required.

- Lead the shift to AI-augmented engineering to improve quality, cost, and speed.

- Grow analytical capability and depth in early program phases.

### Team Leadership

Lead and develop a global team of supervisors and product design engineers across US, European, Australian PD centers, deploying resources against shifting cycle plans and providing oversight to the broader global chassis organization.

## Qualifications

### You'll Have...

- B.S. in Mechanical, Automotive, or Aerospace Engineering required; M.S. or MBA preferred.

- 10+ years in automotive chassis product development and systems engineering, including early-phase architecture.

- Proven record of setting long-range technical direction, influencing senior leaders without direct authority, and aligning multiple teams on complex trade-offs.

- Deep chassis expertise; working knowledge of modular architecture, CATIA/3DX, component FEA, and MBD/ADAMS systems modeling, Agentic & Generative AI.

- Experience leading and developing leaders in a global organization, with accountability for cost, timing, and talent.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.

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## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Automotive Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- CATIA/3DX
- CAE
- ADAMS MBD
- Agentic & Generative AI

### Nice to have
- M.S. or MBA

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