Manager Range & Performance Systems Engineer
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. In this position... Your lines of code will make our future more sustainable. As the Manager of Range & Performance 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. Your optimization will fight physics to find the most desirable outcome for the vehicle and our customers. You will work closely across functional teams to identify gains in efficiency and model/predict and test them.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
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
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
