# Prototype Development Engineer **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Long Beach, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $118,700-$198,500 or $138,800-$232,700 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/67264?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_8e9bf18f-d41 ## Description Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is seeking a Prototype Development Engineer to deliver the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. As a Prototype Development Engineer, you will own the design, build, integration, commissioning, and maintenance of critical electrical test assets, including advanced Labcars, HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) benches, test fixtures, prototype support equipment, and related EV development assets. Responsibilities: - Test Asset Design & Build: Own the development of physical electrical test assets from concept through commissioning. - CAD / Layout Ownership: Create CAD layouts, mechanical packaging concepts, drawing packages, and build-to-print documentation using various tools. - BOM, Purchasing & Build Readiness: Develop complete BOMs, identify parts and alternates, support sourcing and purchasing, and ensure parts are available to support build timing. - Electrical Test Integration: Integrate power supplies, electronic loads, DAQ, NI/PXI/cDAQ hardware, oscilloscopes, meters, signal conditioning, instrumentation, safety interlocks, wiring, harnessing, and electrical interfaces into physical test assets. - Asset Bring-Up: Support the development, commissioning, and maintenance of Labcars, HIL benches, prototype vehicles, and related EV test assets. - Technical Execution: Perform and oversee component installation, complex wiring, harness fabrication/debugging, module software flashing, and network debugging. - System Diagnostics: Troubleshoot and triage complex electrical, mechanical packaging, software integration, wiring, signal, communication, grounding, and hardware issues. - Strategic Testing & Validation: Develop comprehensive test strategies to validate full-system functionality. - Technician Direction: Direct technicians during fabrication, wiring, assembly, installation, and commissioning. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Interface with Systems Integration, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Prototype Operations, technicians, purchasing, and vendors. - Field Support: Provide hands-on support during prototype build events, test asset deployment, fleet management activities, and off-site testing. - Documentation: Maintain rigorous records of module status, hardware revisions, BOM maturity, installed components, configuration status, commissioning results, operating instructions, maintenance information, and integration maturity. Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Computer, Software Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience. - 5+ years of hands-on experience in hardware development, test asset design, test equipment build, prototype development, HIL/lab systems, board bring-up, vehicle systems engineering, or manufacturing test environments. - Demonstrated experience designing, building, commissioning, or supporting physical test assets. - Experience with CAD or layout tools such as CATIA, 3DEXPERIENCE, SolidWorks, NX, Creo, Inventor, AutoCAD, EPLAN, or similar. - Experience creating BOMs, identifying parts, supporting sourcing or purchasing, managing alternates, and preparing builds for execution. - Experience integrating electrical test equipment such as DAQ, power supplies, electronic loads, instrumentation, signal conditioning, wiring, harnessing, or safety interlocks. - Experience with vehicle or embedded communication protocols such as CAN, LIN, Automotive Ethernet, or similar networked systems. 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: $118,700-$198,500 or $138,800-$232,700 depending on the salary grade ## Skills ### Required - CAD - electrical test integration - BOM creation - purchasing - vehicle systems engineering - HIL/lab systems - communication protocols ### Nice to have - EV prototype development - Labcars - HIL benches - battery management systems - motor calibration - OBD diagnostics - functional safety --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/67264?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)