Product Development Engineer - Evaporator & Blower Assembly (HVAC) Core Engineer

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

9d • $74,300 - $166,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Product Development Engineer will lead the design and development of HVAC Evaporator & Blower Assembly (EBA) components and support their quality and delivery of customer attributes as Ford transitions to new vehicle platforms and technologies. The role works with full-service suppliers and cross-functional vehicle teams to develop designs that meet customer requirements, verify component performance, and address launch, recall, quality, and field issues.

The engineer supports HVAC Core Engineering documentation, technical design reviews, product release CAD and BOM structures, supplier data integration, design studies, and supplier manufacturing-change approvals. The position also supports HVAC laboratory testing as needed and helps institutionalize lessons learned and preventive actions across programs. It is hybrid, with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Engineering in electrical, mechanical, physics, systems, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in climate-control HVAC EBA component design and development.
• Proven history of design and verification directly related to HVAC components.
• Knowledge of thermal systems components.
• Knowledge of injection molding design principles and manufacturing experience.
• Knowledge of or experience with HVAC physical testing and CFD/CAE.
• Ability to align cross-functional teams whose members do not directly report to the same department.
• Ability to form and communicate opinions effectively at all levels and drive the company in a winning direction.

Nice To Haves

• Master of Engineering in electrical, mechanical, physics, systems, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Support creation and maintenance of Core Engineering Documents, including FMA documents, requirements, and test procedures.
• Support technical design reviews for systems, subsystems, and components.
• Lead design and development of new HVAC EBA designs with full-service suppliers.
• Sign off on component design verification (DV) and production verification (PV) results from full-service suppliers.
• Solve launch, recall, quality, and field issues.
• Collaborate with vehicle architecture, body, electrical, vehicle attribute, and applications teams to develop EBA designs that meet customer requirements.
• Understand upfront design, verification plans and methods, and the industrialization process.
• Analyze customer quality and warranty concerns.
• Interface with Thermal Subsystems teams, including Air Handling and Air Conditioning Subsystem teams.
• Interface with supplier technical assistance and purchasing teams.
• Support HVAC laboratory testing at the MPG facility as needed.
• Review supplier requests for engineering approval of manufacturing changes, including robust production verification plans.
• Support institutionalizing preventive actions across programs.
• Manage product release CAD and BOM structures, including assembly positioning and mass attribute analysis.
• Facilitate supplier data integration and develop CAD studies to support and drive design improvements.
• Lead technical reviews and debates with confidence and authority while remaining humble and collaborative.
• Document design rules, requirements, technical design guides, and lessons learned, and teach associated learning sessions.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
• 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.
• Vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including time between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.

What This Job Offers

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