Thermal Engineer

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.