# Manager Range & Performance Systems Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Management Level 5
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Join Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team as a Manager of Range & Performance. In this role, you will lead trade-off studies for vehicle and HV architecture, lead and hire a world-class team to develop, modify, and correlate physics-based models for the vehicle and subsystems that accurately predict vehicle performance.

As the Manager of Range & Performance, you will work closely across functional teams to identify gains in efficiency and model/predict and test them. Your optimization will fight physics to find the most desirable outcome for the vehicle and our customers.

Responsibilities:

- Lead Range & performance studies for Advanced EV

- Plan workstreams that to deliver range & performance targets for program

- Create and modify tools of different fidelity for range and performance prediction

- Develop sensitivity analyses to understand the design space and tradeoffs

- Hire and lead a world-class team of Range & Performance engineers

- Create vehicle-aligned component and system targets for function, cost, weight and more

- Data processing and model improvements with on-road vehicle usage data and homologation cycles

- Lead and contribute to design reviews, test plans, and requirements reviews to further optimize vehicle efficiency and performance cross-functionally

- Enable effective communications with subsystems and other engineering teams to deliver optimal design solutions

- Lead presentations of concepts and status to senior management and internally to Company personnel in an integration and subject matter expert role

- Support Software in the Loop strategies and execution

Qualifications:

- B.S. in Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

- 7+ years of experience of developing physics-based models and an understanding of how that relates to vehicle performance

- 1+ year of experience homologating and launching a new product

- 2+ years of leading a team

- High proficiency in any of Python/Matlab/Simulink/Dymola

Even better, you may have:

- Masters or PhD Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field

- Experience with controls strategies for vehicle powertrain/dynamics systems

- Experience with Microsoft Office, Confluence, and Jira applications

- Experience with instrumentation and measurement of homologation cycles

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- 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

Salary:

This position is a leadership level 5 and ranges from $163,080-308,880.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Matlab
- Simulink
- Dymola
- Aerodynamics
- Electrical
- Mechanical
- Physics

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