Staff Sensory 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, you will use your expertise to expand the scope of Craftsmanship and Sensory Experience (CSx) into new disciplines and across the entire vehicle development timeline. You will act as the voice of the customer for Color and Materials and Illumination attributes from product concept to production. The role will fuse Consumer Science, Engineering, Marketing and Attributes with established design, prototyping and production quality techniques to deliver a world beating product – and you will be at the heart of it. The mission of our team is to overdeliver on every aspect of the customer experience. You will be instrumental in achieving this goal for CSx and will be fully empowered by the Ford Advanced EV organization to achieve the best possible results. This role will exposure to the highest levels of leadership within the organization and present many opportunities for development. Within CSx, our objective is to curate the sensory ‘handshake’ which bonds customer to product via emotional connection. In achieving this goal, you will get involved in all aspects of the color and materials and illumination development processes, from initial scoping - benchmarking / target setting and content alignment, leading documentation and change management deliverables, driving physical mockups and prototypes. Through to production – part and assembly quality maturation, acting as the voice of the customer for final product execution, identifying and resolving product / component disconnects related to materials and illumination.
Requirements
- Expertise to expand the scope of Craftsmanship and Sensory Experience (CSx) into new disciplines and across the entire vehicle development timeline.
- Ability to act as the voice of the customer for Color and Materials and Illumination attributes from product concept to production.
- Ability to fuse Consumer Science, Engineering, Marketing and Attributes with established design, prototyping and production quality techniques.
- Ability to curate the sensory ‘handshake’ which bonds customer to product via emotional connection.
- Involvement in all aspects of the color and materials and illumination development processes, from initial scoping - benchmarking / target setting and content alignment.
- Ability to lead documentation and change management deliverables.
- Ability to drive physical mockups and prototypes.
- Ability to mature part and assembly quality through to production.
- Ability to act as the voice of the customer for final product execution.
- Ability to identify and resolve product / component disconnects related to materials and illumination.
Responsibilities
- Act as the voice of the customer for Color and Materials and Illumination attributes from product concept to production.
- Fuse Consumer Science, Engineering, Marketing and Attributes with established design, prototyping and production quality techniques.
- Curate the sensory ‘handshake’ which bonds customer to product via emotional connection.
- Get involved in all aspects of the color and materials and illumination development processes, from initial scoping - benchmarking / target setting and content alignment.
- Lead documentation and change management deliverables.
- Drive physical mockups and prototypes.
- Mature part and assembly quality through to production.
- Act as the voice of the customer for final product execution.
- Identify and resolve product / component disconnects related to materials and illumination.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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