Ford Racing Vehicle Integration Engineer

Racing is where Ford's story began. In 1901, Henry Ford climbed into a car he built himself and won a race, giving birth to the Ford Motor Company.

As a Vehicle Integration Engineer within Ford Racing's Vehicle Engineering team, you will lead the end-to-end vehicle development, testing, and validation of future Ford Racing products, ensuring technical excellence and an emotive customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead Design Confirmation Vehicle (DCV) development and launch activities for Ford Racing programs, ensuring all engineering gateways and milestones are met with high quality and efficiency.
• Translate customer insights into balanced vehicle-level requirements and cascade them into system-level targets, managing technical tradeoffs across cross-functional teams to preserve 'emotional delight' features.
• Oversee the lifecycle of test vehicles, including hardware/software maturity tracking and 'Fit for Test' certification, while optimizing testing processes to improve Design Validation (DV) efficiency.
• Direct Track and Off-Road Durability testing, including resource planning, logistics, and safety, ensuring events are financially responsible and productive.
• Lead final validation of vehicle emotive experiences, including assessment and preparation of media vehicles for flawless external representation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent engineering degree.
• 2 - 5+ years of experience in Vehicle Engineering, Product Development, or a related automotive engineering role.
• Proven ability to lead and facilitate cross-functional teams in solving complex technical issues while building strong professional relationships.
• Experience in vehicle testing and validation, including the ability to assess 'Fit for Test' status for hardware and software.
• Experience managing engineering milestones, gateways, and program documentation within a formal product development system.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to translate complex technical tradeoffs into customer-focused insights for executive and multi-departmental audiences.

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

• Salary grade 6: $74,300-$124,500
• Salary grade 7: $86,600-$144,900
• Salary grade 8: $99,100-$166,200