# Senior Battery Validation Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,800-$232,700
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We're seeking a Senior Battery Validation Engineer to join our Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for enabling innovation through quick testing and characterization of battery components and systems. Your primary focus will be on planning, coordinating, and executing battery pack validation tests, authoring test scripts, and analyzing test data.

Responsibilities:

- Plan, coordinate, and execute battery pack validation tests covering various categories including performance, durability, and abuse

- Author test scripts for equipment including cyclers, chambers, chillers, and DAQ systems

- Own data storage and visualization

- Analyze test data and generate test reports, evaluating compliance with requirements and identifying issues or opportunities for improvement

- Work alongside systems engineers to define requirements

- Work alongside cell engineers to define test profiles and correlate cell and pack results

- Work alongside prototyping and logistics teams to coordinate sample assembly and delivery

- Work cross-functionally across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service to communicate test results and provide feedback on battery design and integration

- Assist battery part owners to develop component-level tests

- Setup data acquisition systems and specialized measurement equipment as needed

- Work with fabrication team as needed to design and build custom fixtures

- Manage external vendors and partners for additional testing capabilities

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

- 5+ years of experience in battery testing and validation

- Experience with battery test equipment, instrumentation, and data acquisition systems

- Knowledge of battery chemistry, physics, and safety standards

- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment

- Strong problem-solving, communication, and project management skills

- Knowledge of statistical analysis and design-of-experiment

- Experience in test fixture design and fabrication; 3-D CAD experience preferred

- Experience in structural, electrical, thermal, and mechanical systems

- Familiarity with US and international battery safety requirements/regulations

- Hands-on experience in HV battery system abuse testing

- Ability to travel to external test labs as needed

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: This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $138,800-$232,700. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

## Skills

### Required
- battery testing and validation
- battery test equipment
- instrumentation
- data acquisition systems
- battery chemistry
- physics
- safety standards
- statistical analysis
- design-of-experiment
- test fixture design
- fabrication
- 3-D CAD
- structural
- electrical
- thermal
- mechanical systems
- US and international battery safety requirements/regulations
- HV battery system abuse testing

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