# Senior Product Affordability Engineer **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Palo Alto, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $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/73210?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d6693294-2ba ## Description The most valuable affordability decisions happen before the design is finished. We are building a capability that brings engineering, manufacturing, supply-chain insight, economics, and data together early in product development, when there is still freedom to make a better choice. This is an opportunity for a curious, technically grounded problem solver who wants to work across traditional boundaries. You may come from engineering, manufacturing, cost engineering, technical purchasing or supply chain, supplier development, industrialization, value engineering, or a combination of these. What matters most is the ability to understand how products are made, recognize what materially drives cost and value, and turn that understanding into better decisions. ## Responsibilities - Work alongside product and design engineers on meaningful vehicle decisions while alternatives are still open. - Explore the connection between product requirements, design choices, manufacturing processes, supply-chain realities, and economics. - Bring new perspectives and constructive challenge to established assumptions, using engineering judgment and facts to help teams find better solutions. - Use cost models, benchmarks, supplier and market information, data, and digital tools at the level of detail needed for the decision at hand. - Lead cross-functional affordability and value-engineering studies from an open question to a clear point of view and actionable alternatives. - Turn complex or recurring questions into reusable models, data, methods, automation, or tools that expand the organization’s capability. - Help shape how affordability is integrated into vehicle development, not simply how cost is measured after decisions are made. ## Qualifications - A strong technical foundation and practical understanding of how products are designed and manufactured. - Depth in at least one relevant engineering, manufacturing, supply-chain, supplier, value-engineering, or cost domain, combined with the curiosity to work well beyond that specialty. - The ability to identify the few variables that matter most in a complex problem and develop a useful point of view without waiting for perfect information. - Comfort working directly with engineers, suppliers, purchasing, manufacturing teams, and other stakeholders to turn analysis into decisions. - An ownership mindset: you are energized by ambiguous problems, learn quickly, and can create a path where one does not already exist. - Analytical and digital fluency, with an interest in using data, modeling, automation, and emerging tools to solve problems at greater scale. ## 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 - engineering - manufacturing - supply-chain - economics - data analysis - cost modeling - digital tools --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/73210?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)