# Range and Performance Test Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this role, you will take deep ownership of hub and chassis dynamometer testing, serving as a technical authority on road load characterization, drivetrain efficiency, and real-world performance translation.

You will partner closely with powertrain, controls, thermal, and vehicle dynamics teams to ensure our vehicles meet ambitious performance and range targets.

## Responsibilities

- Plan and execute vehicle testing for acceleration, power delivery, gradeability, and towing across various temperatures, SOC, and loading conditions

- Contribute to the final design and commissioning of best-in-class test cells (chassis dyno, hub dynos, climatic chambers) and develop internal standards for EV range & performance testing

- Create SOPs for lab operations in accordance to ISO/IEC 17025 for dyno calibrations/ maintenance and vehicle operations

- Lead validation across chassis/hub dynos and on-road environments

- Support global range and energy efficiency development & certification testing for regulatory labeling across international markets

- Own test procedures for hub and chassis dynos, including grade simulations, towing mass/drag modeling. Specify dyno requirements for torque capacity, inertia simulation, and cooling

- Direct precise instrumentation of test vehicles, including the installation of torque transducers, thermocouples, voltage/current measurements, & other instrumentation to ensure high-fidelity data acquisition for integrity and traceability

- Analyze large datasets to extract powertrain efficiency maps and provide correlation studies on physics-based models to diagnose discrepancies between simulation and real-world results

- Drive collaboration with powertrain, controls, and thermal teams to provide test-driven feedback on motor/inverter calibration, torque limits, thermal derating, and aero trade studies

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- 5+ years of experience in vehicle performance or range testing (EV experience highly preferred)

- Deep hands-on experience operating and managing Hub and Chassis dynamometers including direct experience with ISO/IEC 17025 and understanding of 40CFR1066 and UNECE R154 (WLTP)

- Strong technical understanding of EV powertrain physics, torque/efficiency characterization, and road load modeling (coastdown testing)

- Proven experience executing gradeability and towing performance testing

- Proficiency in data analysis tools such as Python or MATLAB for processing complex vehicle datasets

## 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
- Electrical Engineering
- Automotive Engineering
- Python
- MATLAB
- Hub and Chassis dynamometers
- ISO/IEC 17025
- 40CFR1066
- UNECE R154 (WLTP)
- EV powertrain physics
- torque/efficiency characterization
- road load modeling

### Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Engineering
- Expertise in regulatory range certification procedures
- Experience with thermal derating
- protection strategies
- high-voltage EV safety practices
- Familiarity with vehicle simulation tools
- data acquisition systems

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