Mechatronics Fuel Subsystem Engineer - Propulsion

Ford • Dearborn, MI

3d • $84,480 - $162,120 • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is within Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team, which is focused on delivering the company's vision for an all-electric transportation future. The EVDD team is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven, aiming to provide an industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. The role involves joining an agile team that is pioneering the EV future through collaboration, focus, and excellence, contributing to building a better world where everyone is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this role, you will be part of a new team responsible for executing cross-domain Mechatronics Subsystem integration across all vehicle programs. Your primary focus will be to bridge the gap between Electronics, Mechanical Hardware (VHE), Features, Controls & Software (CVS), and other departments, serving as the central integration lead to ensure seamless physical-to-electrical execution. While the Mechatronics Core Team develops enterprise standards, mathematical models, and templates, this role will concentrate on owning specific mechatronic subsystems, such as fuel systems, and influencing feature intent before component design commences. The team will manage the physical-to-electrical transfer functions, ensuring that system performance aligns with subsystem requirements, including the physical constraints of mechanical hardware like torque, thermal limits, and kinematics.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years’ experience delivering products, systems, Design and Release, or features from conception to launch.
• 5 years of experience demonstrating positive teamwork ethics and the ability to collaborate across competing engineering domains.
• 3+ years of ability to work in a cross-functional team environment.
• 2+ years’ of automotive propulsion subsystems experience.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years’ automotive propulsion subsystems experience.
• Experience bridging the gap between physical hardware limitations and software controls (Mechatronics).
• Experience with Ford Global Product Development System (GPDS) deliverables and timing.
• Proficiency in JIRA, FEDE and JAMA, with technical experience using VSEM, Boundary Diagrams, and Component Design specification (CDS).
• Experience with in-vehicle architectures, network communications (CAN, LIN, Ethernet), and their constraints/complexity.
• Experience with Component Design and Release (D&R), program management and planning, business strategy, and product coordination.
• Hands-on experience with physical-to-electrical modeling tools (e.g., MATLAB/Simulink, Mathcad).
• Prior experience acting as a Systems Engineer, Subsystem Lead, or Integration/Test Engineer on a major vehicle program.
• Demonstrated mindset of Continuous Improvement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a passion for changing Ford’s approach to systems engineering—shifting from isolated component delivery to holistic, synchronized mechatronic subsystem execution.
• Define electro-mechanical requirements and interfaces.
• Define subsystem electrical Architectures (that include hardware software and electrotechnical requirements and system performance specification).
• Enables true software-hardware co-development.
• Drives Ford’s transition to subsystem-based engineering execution.
• Test and validate electro- mechanical subsystems.
• Improves first-time quality at launch.
• Lead Subsystem-Level Execution: Take the standardized templates, math models, and engineering frameworks developed by the Mechatronics Core team and apply them to your specific vehicle program to ensure the subsystem performs flawlessly on the assembly line.
• Drive the new working interaction model by ingesting Feature level or system level requests and decomposing them into synchronized mechanical, electrical, and software requirements.
• Interface with Feature, System, VHE (Hardware), and CVS (Software) teams ensuring system-level performance and timing are physically achievable before code is written or parts are tooled.
• Coordinate cross-functionally to take Core templates and develop program-specific Subsystem Boundary Diagrams, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and Subsystem Electrical Block Diagrams for your assigned domain.
• Be part of the solution to deliver exceptional experiences by leading active vehicle build issue triage (Breadboard, HIL, and plant floor). You will investigate data logs, identify root causes, and define real-time containment plans for complex cross-domain failures.
• Partner with software and hardware teams to perfectly align Agile software sprints (Jira) with Waterfall mechanical hardware timelines (GPDS), ensuring code is ready when physical parts arrive.
• Hold the standard with partnering D&R teams to subsystem timelines, risk mitigation plans, and integration readiness to ensure on-time and on-target delivery prior to key program milestones (e.g., FDJ).
• Drive the cross-skill team delivery with the use of design guardrails—preventing direct Feature-to-Electronic DR handoffs and ensuring strict traceability from feature intent down to component execution.
• Develop complete plans for Subsystem-level Verification and Sign-off across current and future vehicle programs.

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