# HV Battery Design & Release Engineer- Busbar-to Cell Welding/Array & Thermal

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $68,300-192,900
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Join the HV Battery Array team as a Design & Release Engineer. You will design, validate, and release high voltage (HV) battery array modules and work closely with cross-functional and global partners to bring them to production. You will also help establish Ford's new in-house laser welding capability for HV battery cells.

Responsibilities:

- Work with CAD designers, CAE engineers, HV battery package engineers, suppliers, welding process engineers, and HV battery component engineers to design and release HV battery welded array modules.

- Develop and ensure compatibility of the electrical, mechanical, and thermal interfaces of the module within the HV Battery System.

- Design or evaluate supplier designs of specific module components.

- Work closely with other functions and global teams to meet package, performance, and attribute requirements for the HV Battery Array/Cell Block System.

- Ensure Design and Release activities are followed and completed.

- Interface with adjacent teams, including the HV Battery unit team, HV Battery manufacturing team, HV Battery cell team, HV Battery Testing team, Supplier Technical Assistance, and Purchasing.

- Identify process and design improvements for efficiency and cost savings.

- Report design, testing, timing, and quality issues to leadership on a timely basis and lead technical resolution.

Laser Welding Focus Area:

- Own and develop the engineering specification for busbar-to-cell laser welding.

- Define the functional requirements of the welded joint for structural integrity, electrical conductivity, and thermal management.

- Develop and execute Design Validation (DV) and Process Verification (PV) test plans to support PPAP of the process assembly line.

- Work with BME to develop capability studies that prove the specification is met.

- Support early plant trials and pre-production builds, including on-site work at the plant.

Qualifications:

- B.S. in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, or Welding Engineering) with 5+ years of relevant experience, OR M.S. in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, or Welding Engineering) with 2+ years of relevant experience

- Relevant experience is in electrified powertrain or HV battery engineering systems, HV battery array design and release, or welding/joining process engineering.

- Experience in Design and Release roles, supplier management, and multi-discipline engineering in electrification

- Experience writing requirements and engineering specifications, and evaluating supplier designs against them

- Experience developing and evaluating DVP&R, DV and PV test plans

- Experience with the Failure Mode Avoidance (FMA) process and quality documents (DFMEA, PFMEA, control plans, etc.)

- Knowledge of GD&T standards, 2D prints, and tolerance stack-up analysis methods

- Strong presentation and communication skills to report to Managers, Chief Engineers, Directors, and New Model Launch Leaders

- Ability to work effectively across the functions of a vehicle program and to interact with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including negotiating tradeoffs

- Proactive, self-motivated, and detail-oriented

- Strong teamwork, organizational, oral, and written communication skills

- Willingness to travel as needed for plant support and design reviews

## Skills

### Required
- CAD design
- CAE engineering
- HV battery design
- laser welding
- supplier management
- electrical engineering
- mechanical engineering
- materials engineering
- welding engineering

### Nice to have
- laser welding processes
- weld quality analysis
- capability studies
- scrap reduction
- FTT
- cycle-time optimization
- PPAP
- manufacturing launch
- plant trials

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