# Studio Design Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: range of salary grades 6-8
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We believe freedom of movement drives human progress. As a Studio Design Engineer, you will work with many team members to make the design vision a reality. From developing initial engineering concepts for a new design concept, guiding, and integrating multiple engineering and manufacturing inputs into the A surface, providing alternatives proposals that enable new ways of reconciling functional requirements and thematic intent, to building a suitable physical model that makes the concept and reality.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading Studio property set up, and integrity including content, data pedigree, ride height, manikin drop and overall suitability

- Completing studies within Design Feasibility FC Process from FC0 to K6, including completion of the Design Development Checklists, Hardpoints Plan, and the integration of aligned plans into surface

- Integrating A-surface with thematic, VA, functional, and attribute inputs whilst maintaining the emotive character and art in the surface

- Guiding initial theme set-up, and development through or in advance of functional, supplier, or attribute inputs

- Developing and maintaining Surface Scaffold files to enable Physical and Digital model development and theme overlay

- Providing concept alternatives and provocations to support the reconciliation of thematic intent with functional and program assumptions

- Optimizing and balancing of inputs to the studio, including consideration of 'what-might-be' to support the theme vision

- Managing data within, into, and out of the studio

We offer a range of salary grades 6-8.

## Skills

### Required
- Catia V5
- 3DX
- Mechanical Engineering
- Automotive Equivalent

### Nice to have
- Legislative requirements affecting the Design Feasibility process
- Feasibility tools and design studio feasibility progression
- Production processes