# Mechanical Design Engineer, Thermal

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $100,400-$232,700
**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 seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer for Thermal Systems to help deliver the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future.

As a Mechanical Design Engineer for Thermal Systems, you will own the physical design of thermal hardware across the entire system , coolant loops, refrigeration/heat-pump circuits, and HVAC/climate , turning thermal performance targets into robust, manufacturable components and assemblies.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the mechanical design of thermal system hardware across one or more subsystems, translating performance and packaging requirements into detailed, manufacturable designs.

- Design thermal hardware across coolant, refrigeration, and HVAC/climate subsystems in 3D CAD from concept through production release.

- Package and route thermal hardware through the vehicle, resolving space, interface, and clearance constraints with adjacent systems.

- Translate thermal, hydraulic, and refrigerant performance targets from the system and subsystem engineers into physical geometry.

- Develop designs optimized for their manufacturing processes and for high-volume assembly.

- Apply geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, perform tolerance stack-up analysis, and define critical dimensions.

- Support structural, flow, thermal, and durability analysis.

- Create and release detailed part and assembly drawings, manage engineering changes, and maintain CAD data and bills of materials.

- Work closely with the system and subsystem engineers, Controls Engineers, test engineers, and suppliers.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- 3+ years of experience in mechanical design of automotive components or systems.

- Proficiency in 3D CAD (CATIA, NX, or 3DEXPERIENCE).

- Working knowledge of GD&T and tolerance stack-up analysis.

- Solid understanding of design for manufacture and assembly.

- Familiarity with heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and pressure-system fundamentals.

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
- 3D CAD
- GD&T
- tolerance stack-up analysis
- design for manufacture and assembly
- heat transfer
- fluid dynamics
- pressure-system fundamentals

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in a relevant engineering discipline
- Direct experience designing thermal hardware
- Experience with EV thermal management systems
- Familiarity with refrigeration and HVAC systems
- Experience with actuator- and valve-driven hardware and control interfaces

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