High Voltage Battery Thermal CAE Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

2d • $65,100 - $166,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Ford Global Electrified Propulsion Engineering Team develops battery architectures and product experiences in collaboration with global suppliers and cross-functional teams. The High Voltage Battery Thermal CAE Engineer performs thermal and CFD analyses of high-voltage battery packs and supports vehicle and battery product development through simulation, physical-test data correlation, testing coordination, and virtual test signoff. The position is hybrid and requires onsite work four or more days per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or an equivalent degree.
• At least 2 years of experience with 1D and 3D thermal/CFD simulation techniques.
• At least 2 years of work experience supporting product development through thermal analysis.
• Expert knowledge of heat-transfer theory and CAE thermal-analysis simulation methods.
• Working knowledge of CAE software for heat-transfer analysis, such as StarCCM+, and CAE model-building software such as Ansa and Hypermesh.
• Working experience in CAD geometry cleanup for CAE, simulation model building and meshing, CAE model setup and execution, and post-processing.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree.
• Physical thermal testing experience, including thermal test data processing.
• Knowledge of scripting languages.
• Working knowledge of or experience with high-voltage battery pack design and manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Perform 1D and 3D thermal and computational fluid dynamics simulations at system, subsystem, and component levels for high-voltage battery packs, using commercial CAE/CFD software to meet battery unit and vehicle development timing.
• Post-process and report thermal simulation results to product development teams to guide battery design and support product development milestones.
• Analyze and process vehicle and laboratory thermal test data from physical battery thermal testing and use it to correlate CAE models.
• Determine loading and boundary conditions for thermal CAE/CFD models based on vehicle and laboratory physical testing conditions.
• Work with testing and battery D&R engineers to specify thermal testing and instrumentation of high-voltage battery packs for CAE correlation and physical test reduction.
• Lead CAE-testing interactions and apply CAE thermal tools to support testing teams, test reduction efforts, and virtual test signoff.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup child care.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• 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