Battery Management/Modeling Research Engineer

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. This position involves battery modeling research to support the development of current and future hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles within Ford Research and Advanced Engineering. The mission is to perform research to develop new battery-related features, enhance existing features, and enable lower cost, more reliable, and longer-lived batteries.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering or related degree
• 5+ years of experience with battery applications of physics-based modeling, including heat/mass transport, fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, or chemical/mechanical degradation processes, or electrochemistry applications (Thesis and/or Dissertation allowed)
• Demonstrated experience developing computational strategies for solving large systems of coupled ordinary differential equations or partial differential equations

Nice To Haves

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering or related degree
• 8+ years of experience with electrochemical battery modeling (Thesis and/or Dissertation allowed)
• Strong knowledge in one and good awareness of the other of the following competencies: Batteries and battery systems, especially of the type used in vehicle Electrification Control Systems, especially state estimation theory
• Battery modeling and simulation tools, especially Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow, PyBaMM, COMSOL, and Abaqus
• Post-processing battery cell and pack data using scripting, AVL Concerto, or similar programs
• Ability to anticipate research needs and initiate research projects
• Knowledge of model based development processes desired
• Awareness of automotive battery management hardware desired
• Excellent data analysis and interpretation capabilities
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple tasks

Responsibilities

• Develop advanced battery plant models for use in battery design and vehicle system simulations
• Identify and prescribe test methods, including novel measurements beyond traditional battery cycling, that can deliver data needed to calibrate or validate multi-physics battery models
• Post-process battery cell and pack test data to evaluate performance or life characteristics
• Define and lead research projects related to battery management & modeling
• Implement multi-physics battery models using various modeling tools
• Map battery hardware architectures and interfaces between battery cells and the battery controller to simulation environments, while balancing complexity with execution speed
• Create reduced order models from highly complex physical plant models for battery management system implementation
• Transfer developed technologies to product teams

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior