Description
Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is seeking a Staff Battery Modeling Engineer to help deliver the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. As a Staff Battery Modeling Engineer, you will create and own battery physics models of different fidelities, develop advanced lifetime models for current and next-generation cells, drive product direction and cell design based on model recommendations, integrate versions of the cell model with the vehicle model, define requirements for thermal and pack components based on cell aging and warranty, work with experimental teams to get new types of data needed to improve analysis, support future roadmap scenarios, create DVP for cell testing, and correlate and improve models with field vehicles.
Responsibilities:
- Create and own battery physics models of different fidelities
- Develop advanced lifetime models for current and next-generation cells
- Drive product direction and cell design based on model recommendations
- Integrate versions of the cell model with the vehicle model
- Define requirements for thermal and pack components based on cell aging and warranty
- Work with experimental teams to get new types of data needed to improve analysis
- Support future roadmap scenarios
- Create DVP for cell testing
- Correlate and improve models with field vehicles
Qualifications:
- Master's in chemical, EE, or related fields of engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
- 5+ years of experience in developing cell models and understanding how cell characteristics relate to system performance
- Knowledge of modeling techniques used to simulate lithium-ion cells, battery packs, and thermal systems
- First-principal knowledge of engineering, chemistry, and physics fundamentals
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- High proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or Simulink
- Experience with JIRA/Confluence or a similar system for tracking inputs/results
- Experience with different cell chemistries and form factors
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