We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.
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...
The Powertrain Structures Design Engineer will be responsible for power unit case housing and structures design. This engineer will drive part placement and power unit architecture from concept phase thru part analysis, optimization, DFM, and eventually production. You will integrate, analyze, and iterate the powertrain components both internally and in vehicle package.
What you'll do...
Define durability and duty cycle requirements.
Work with CAE support to topology optimize housings, mounts and other structures.
Investigate exploratory materials and composites.
Cost optimization with vehicle bounties.
Create robust designs for automotive applications and for automated mass manufacturing.
Contribute to design reviews and requirements reviews to further optimize the powertrain system cross functionally.
Support presentations of concepts and status to senior management and internally to company personnel.
Drive powertrain innovations of future technologies that provide benefit to the product; both short- and long-term roadmap items.
Perform rapid calculations and mechanical layout iterations in CAD in order to validate assumptions and funnel design concepts down.
Generate and maintain detailed 3D CAD of entire power unit assemblies and production drawings. Foster good CAD practices.
Aid prototype power unit builds and drive development and validation testing campaigns.
Manage subcomponent interfaces and related workstreams/requirements, including all power unit tolerance analysis.
Collaborate closely with powertrain modeling, NVH, controls, and test engineering functions.
Lead key design reviews and visualization or demonstration activities.