# Thermal Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $100,400-$168,000, $118,700-$198,500, $138,800-$232,700
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Product Creation and Industrialization (PC&I) at Ford Motor Company brings together vehicle, electric, digital, and design teams with global manufacturing systems to create high-quality vehicles, software, and experiences. As a Thermal Engineer, you will support thermal-system modeling and development for battery, drive unit, and powertrain products.

Responsibilities:

- Support thermal-system modeling and development for battery, drive unit, and powertrain products.

- Build and use reduced-order thermal/fluid models to support system and component decisions.

- Assist with thermal component and subsystem feasibility studies.

- Support prototype builds, test setup, instrumentation, and data acquisition.

- Analyze test data and compare measured performance against model predictions.

- Develop and support validation plans, test methods, and technical summaries.

- Document model assumptions, specifications, design updates, test results, and validation findings.

- Work with test engineers and subject matter experts to understand correlation between predicted and measured results.

- Collaborate with controls, electrical, software, manufacturing, validation, and supplier teams to resolve technical issues.

- Support continuous improvement of thermal models, tools, workflows, and development methodologies.

- Help identify opportunities to improve thermal performance, system efficiency, manufacturability, cost, and reliability.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- Strong fundamentals in heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.

- Coursework, internship, research, or project experience with thermal systems.

- MATLAB and/or Python experience for data analysis, modeling, or automation.

- Familiarity with thermal components such as heat exchangers, compressors, pumps, fans, cold plates, coolant loops, or refrigerant systems.

- Ability to analyze data, document results, and communicate findings clearly.

- Strong teamwork, communication, self-motivation, and ability to manage multiple tasks.

- A first-principles approach to engineering problem solving.

- Curiosity and eagerness to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional EV development 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.

Salary: $100,400-$168,000, $118,700-$198,500, or $138,800-$232,700 depending on the salary grade.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- heat transfer
- thermodynamics
- fluid mechanics
- MATLAB
- Python
- thermal systems

### Nice to have
- physics-based 1D modeling
- reduced-order thermal/fluid models
- CFD/FEA tools
- STAR-CCM+
- ANSYS
- COMSOL
- CAD
- CATIA
- SolidWorks
- prototype builds
- instrumentation
- data acquisition
- validation testing
- battery thermal systems
- energy storage
- EVs
- HVAC
- powertrain thermal management

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