Staff Range and Performance Engineer

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.