# Senior Geartrain Design and Analysis 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/71254?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e1d63006-63b ## Description Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. As a Senior Geartrain Design & Analysis Engineer, you will be responsible for design and development of components within Ford's next generation EV drivetrains. ## Responsibilities - Design and optimize geartrain components and features such as teeth, webbing, differential housings, shafts, and bearings for durability, efficiency, NVH, mass, cost, and robustness. - Generate and update/maintain 3D and 2D CAD of designs, considering best practices for GD&T, clear and consistent notes, identification of critical and significant characteristics, etc. - Review and update requirements, DFMEA's, process control plans and other documentation as required during the course of hardware design and development. - Evaluate data and understand the correlation between predicted and measured results, collaborating with test engineers and reviewing data with subject matter experts. - Support and/or conduct testing and test setup including data acquisition systems and fixture design. - Interact with vendors, manufacturing representatives and other industrialization personnel to ensure high quality products arrive where they are needed in time to support the scheduled activities. - Propose and implement continuous improvements to designs and/or processes. - Contribute to design reviews, test plans, and requirement reviews to further advance the powertrain system cross functionally. - Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation and reports related to design and test work. ## Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience. - 7+ years of experience designing, developing, and validating geartrain hardware. - Experience optimizing geartrain systems utilizing CAE tools such as ANSYS, FEMFAT, Romax, LDP, Kissoft, GT-Suite, MATLAB or equivalent applications. - Experience with instrumentation and data acquisition in a lab environment. - Strong sense of ownership, analytical skills and problem-solving skills with a basis in first principles understanding along with the skill set required to effectively communicate. - An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team. - A system approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement. ## 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 - Mechanical Engineering - Geartrain design - CAE tools - Data acquisition - Analytical skills --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/71254?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)