# Lead Engineering Technician | Vehicle **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Palo Alto, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $95,300-$159,400 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/70610?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_57739bbf-246 ## Description Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. The Lead Engineering Technician is responsible for performing vehicle instrumentation, test setup, and test execution alongside a team of technicians. ## Responsibilities - Perform vehicle and subsystem instrumentation, data acquisition system setup, test preparation, troubleshooting, and test support alongside the technician team. - Lead daily activities by assigning and prioritizing work based on test schedules, vehicle availability, Engineering needs, and established program priorities. - Partner directly with Engineering to understand test objectives, instrumentation requirements, timing, and expected deliverables. - Install, configure, validate, troubleshoot, and remove sensors, instrumentation wiring, data loggers, and related test equipment. - Configure DAQ and verify sensors, data acquisition channels, and vehicle-network signals to ensure accurate and reliable test data. - Prepare and support vehicles for vehicle dynamics, braking, handling, durability, thermal, NVH, road, and proving-ground testing. - Participate in hands-on test execution, including pre-test inspections, system checks, system troubleshooting, and teardown. - Verify sensor operation, calibration status, signal quality, and vehicle configuration, before releasing vehicles for testing. - Troubleshoot instrumentation and data-quality issues in partnership with Engineering. - Provide technicians with technical instruction while working alongside them to resolve complex installations, test setups, and system issues. - Review completed work and maintain accurate documentation on instrumentation records, calibration information, channel lists, issues, and deviations. - Communicate vehicle readiness, work status, test findings, risks, and blockers to Engineering and management. - Track assignments, test requests, issues, and deliverables using Jira and other Atlassian tools. - Identify tooling, equipment, material, vehicle, or workspace constraints and escalate them to management. ## Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience. - Proficiency in vehicle instrumentation, sensors, data acquisition, vehicle networks, and test support. - Ability to lead while contributing to the work, setting priorities, guiding technicians, and maintaining accountability. - Ability to translate engineering requirements, drawings, schematics, and procedures into executable work. - Strong judgment, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills in a changing environment. - Ability to communicate and document work status, findings, risks, configurations, and open issues. - Ability to work safely and maintain an organized, efficient work environment. ## 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 - vehicle instrumentation - data acquisition - vehicle networks - test support - mechanical engineering ### Nice to have - high-voltage electric vehicles - electrical safety - vehicle software flashing - module or data-logger configuration - Linux - scripting - technical documentation --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/70610?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)