# Ford Racing Powertrain Simulation Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Allen Park, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $65,100-$166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford Racing is seeking a Powertrain Simulation Engineer to build powertrain plant models and simulation tools that power key decisions across Ford Racing's production and motorsports programs.

The successful candidate will use Matlab/Simulink and other programs to develop vehicle, powertrain, and component-level CAE models to analyze dynamic system performance and complex system interactions.

Responsibilities:

- Develop vehicle, powertrain, and component-level CAE models using Matlab/Simulink

- Manage integration of powertrain plant models with other multidisciplinary models

- Work cross-functionally with controls, calibration, test, and program engineers

- Design and perform concept vehicle simulation studies to develop hardware and vehicle requirements recommendations

- Plan and perform hardware testing using test vehicles, dynamometers, labs, or external supplier services

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or an equivalent technical degree

- 2 years' experience developing dynamic system models for simulation and control design

- 2 years' experience in the design, development, and validation of real-time control systems

- Understanding of automotive powertrain systems and controls, general physics, thermos and fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and vehicle dynamics

- 2 years of demonstrated experience using Matlab/Simulink for system modeling, simulation, data analysis, and embedded control software implementation

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

Salary: $65,100-$166,200

## Skills

### Required
- Matlab/Simulink
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Physics
- dynamic system models
- real-time control systems
- automotive powertrain systems

### Nice to have
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Electrical Engineering
- combustion engine operation
- multidisciplinary vehicle subsystem models
- Python
- C++
- racing tools
- telemetry systems
- vehicle dynamics software
- AI-based and machine learning engineering solutions

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