Range, Performance & Cell Characterization

Ford Motor • Long Beach, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

In this position... As a Cell Modeling engineer you will develop, modify, and correlate electrochemical/physics-based models for current and future cells and integrate it into system level model. You will work closely with the cell/battery engineering & manufacturing teams to identify gains in performance and aging and model/predict and test them. By joining the best software, engineering, design and UX talent, you will be a part of creating new technologies and concepts that can be applied across the Ford enterprise. Responsibilities What you'll do...

Requirements

• Bachelors’ degree in engineering, physics, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Experience of developing cell electrochemical, physics-based models or aging models and an understanding of how that relates to vehicle performance
• High proficiency in any of Python/Matlab/Simulink/C++
• Experience with LFP and NMC chemistries

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Microsoft Office, Confluence, and Jira applications
• Experience with analyzing cell/battery test data
• 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

Responsibilities

• Create and improve battery models for aging and performance- Physics based models, Empirical/semi empirical models
• Connect the cell level models with the battery system models considering the non-cell components
• Improve computational efficiency and speed of the various cell and system models
• Develop data analysis tools for analyzing battery data from cell/pack level characterization tests and vehicle field tests.
• Development of Python-based in-house visualization tool to enable streamlined viewing, manipulation, and comparison of time-series data
• Profiling, efficiency improvement, and general refactoring and improvements for in-house physics-based vehicle model
• Supporting battery ECM model integration with the vehicle model and virtual vehicle validation against design requirements
• Run sensitivity analyses to understand the design space and tradeoffs
• Correlation and model improvements with on-road battery usage data
• Enable effective communications with subsystems and other engineering teams to deliver optimal design solutions
• Support presentations of concepts and status to senior management and internally to Company personnel in an integration and subject matter expert role

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: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees