# Research Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $85,400 - $165,900
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Join Ford's Research and Advanced Engineering team as a Research Engineer, contributing to battery materials research and development. You will use optical, spectroscopic, and electrochemical methods to analyze materials and cells, and develop new characterization tools.

Responsibilities:

- Measure physical battery phenomena using optical techniques such as Raman, FTIR, and laser absorption spectroscopy

- Apply laser theory and mathematical modeling to optimize measurements and build new laser systems

- Work with optical cells to gain in-situ insight into formation, cycling, and degradation processes

- Use and maintain a femtosecond laser to ablate electrodes and various in-house equipment

- Collaborate with team members to implement insights and learnings in next-generation battery materials and systems

- Participate in joint projects with universities and national labs

Qualifications:

- Master's degree in materials science, engineering, physics, or related fields

- 3 years of experience in using optical systems to measure physical battery phenomena

- Laboratory experimental skills in synthesizing and/or processing battery materials, performing cell testing, and advanced material characterization methods

- Fundamental understanding of chemical processes and mechanisms within batteries

Preferred Qualifications:

- PhD in battery materials science, engineering, chemistry, or related fields

- 5 years of experience in using optical systems to measure physical battery phenomena

- Wide range of material analysis experience, including teardown and post-mortem analysis of battery materials

- Experience assembling and operating LabVIEW or other programmatic data acquisition and hardware

- Experience designing, assembling, and operating tunable diode laser-based tools

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

- Generous schedule of paid holidays

Salary: $85,400 - $165,900

## Skills

### Required
- optical techniques
- laser theory
- mathematical modeling
- materials science
- electrochemistry

### Nice to have
- PhD in battery materials science
- LabVIEW
- tunable diode laser-based tools
- quadrupole mass spectrometry

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