# Staff Range and Performance Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,200-$283,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners.

As a Staff Range and Performance Engineer, you will develop, modify, and correlate physics-based models for the system and subsystems that accurately predict vehicle performance. You will work closely across functional teams to identify gains in efficiency and model/predict and test them.

## Responsibilities

- Create and modify tools of different fidelity for range and performance prediction

- Create tools for system and vehicle level cost/performance and assess trade-offs

- Integrate control systems & plant models from other functional domains

- Platform-level optimization for vehicle attributes

- Run sensitivity analyses to understand the design space and tradeoffs

- Create vehicle-aligned component and system targets for function, cost, weight and more

- Work with fleet data and make model improvements with on-road vehicle usage data and homologation cycles

- Lead and contribute to design reviews, test plans, and requirements reviews to further optimize vehicle efficiency and performance cross functionally

- Enable effective communications with subsystems and other engineering teams to deliver optimal design solutions

- Support presentations of concepts and status to senior management and internally to Company personnel in an integration and subject matter expert role

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Physics or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- 7+ years of experience of developing physics-based models and an understanding of how that relates to vehicle performance

- 3+ year of experience homologating and launching a new product

- High proficiency in any of Python/Matlab/Simulink/Dymola

- Experience with Jira/Confluence or a similar system for tracking inputs/results

## 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
- Python
- Matlab
- Simulink
- Dymola
- Jira
- Confluence
- Aerodynamics
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Physics

### Nice to have
- Masters or PhD Automotive/Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Physics
- Experience with controls strategies for vehicle powertrain/dynamics systems
- Experience with Microsoft Office, Confluence, and Jira applications
- Experience with instrumentation and measurement of homologation cycles
- Strong written and verbal communication skills

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