# Lead Engineering Technician | Vehicle Systems (Powertrain)

**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

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## 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 supports development and testing by leading hands-on build, rework, and testing activities across electric powertrain, thermal, and vehicle systems.

## Responsibilities

- Lead daily build and test activities across powertrain, thermal, and vehicle systems while providing hands-on direction to technicians.

- Assemble, install, modify, and rework electric powertrain components, thermal systems, and related vehicle hardware.

- Support component, subsystem, and vehicle-level testing, including test setup, instrumentation, operation, and teardown.

- Diagnose mechanical, electrical, and thermal system issues and coordinate findings with Engineering.

- Take ownership of complex prototype builds and rework when standard procedures are still being developed.

- Read and interpret work instructions, mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, harness diagrams, and test procedures.

- Build and design fixtures, tooling, fluid loops, instrumentation, and test equipment from loosely defined requirements.

- Inspect components and assemblies using precision measurement and diagnostic equipment.

- Train technicians, assign daily work, and ensure clear communication during project and shift handoffs.

- Document vehicle configurations, completed work, test results, issues, and deviations.

- Maintain test vehicles, lab equipment, and shop areas in a safe and test-ready condition.

- Ability to track work through Jira and other Atlassian tools.

- Maintain a strong understanding of electrical principles and automotive standards.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- Proficiency in prototype system builds, modifications, testing, and troubleshooting.

- 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
- mechanical engineering
- prototype system builds
- testing
- troubleshooting
- electrical principles
- automotive standards
- Jira
- Atlassian tools

### Nice to have
- hands-on experience building and launching automotive products and vehicle prototyping
- Microsoft Office
- Confluence
- strong written and verbal communication skills

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