Vehicle Hardware Engineering Ford College Graduate Program -Fulltime

Overview

What you’ll be able to do:

With the Vehicle Hardware Engineering Ford College Graduate (FCG) program, you’ll discover unmatched opportunities to turn your higher education into real world experience with a company that is redefining human mobility. As part of the 24-month Ford College Graduate rotational, developmental program, you will be provided with the structure (orientation, training opportunities, experiences and feedback) to enhance your technical and professional competencies.

Our goal is to support you and your transition into the robust, inclusive and engaged workforce needed to meet the product development needs of tomorrow.

At Ford, the Vehicle Hardware Engineering teams are utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that will delight our customers. Our employees are laser-focused on bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. From autonomy and electrification to smart mobility technologies, our teams around the world are working together with excitement to make smart vehicles for a smart world.

Examples of areas of opportunity include:

• ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) Propulsion and Thermal Systems Engineering (IPTSE) - The IPTSE team is responsible for developing combustion engines and the associated subsystems such as fuel delivery, cooling, and climate control for the vehicle. Engineers are assigned across various support activities involving the design, development, CAE analysis, and testing of the various subsystems. Engineers typically follow the development process from pre-program planning through prototype and production validation as well as product launch.
• Vehicle Evaluation and Verification – The Vehicle Evaluation and Verification (VEV) organization at Ford Motor Company ensures customer satisfaction by building, testing, and evaluating prototype vehicles and systems. They bring digital concepts to life and then push them to their limits in testing. VEV develops cutting edge product verification using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and state-of-the-art test methods. VEV has challenging opportunities across areas including: VEV Prototypes, VEV Proving Grounds and Test Labs, VEV Signoff, & VEV METS (Materials Engineering, Testing, and Standards).
• Vehicle Propulsion Systems Engineering – Calibrates and optimizes the control systems of the powertrain for Gas, Diesel and Electrified vehicles to deliver optimized system operation and customer attributes such as performance, drivability, fuel economy, electric driving, hybrid system operation, emissions, shift quality, all-wheel drive operation, and other requirements. Calibrations are integrated into vehicle lines and validated through development and testing, including with physical testing, powertrain dyno testing, and analytical environments (HIL, SIL, Analytics).
• Exterior and Structural Systems Engineering – Responsible for design and release of exterior and vehicle structure parts, including body structure, frame, doors, fascias & grilles, mirrors, glass, and other exterior parts. Engineers own their parts through the product lifecycle, ensuring design rules and requirements are met and supporting material cost reductions and design changes with testing and CAE.
• Interior Systems Engineering – Responsible for design and release of interior components including the instrument panel, console, seat structures, airbags and seat belts, and decorative trim.
• Underbody Systems – Concept designs for underbody systems including brakes, suspension, steering, and wheels/tires to meet targets for dynamics, NVH, safety, appearance, cost, quality, and weight.
• VHE
  - Systems – Provides engineering solutions and systems integration to Design Assurance & Quality;
  Systems & Hardware Integration;
  Engineering Design (CAD) and BOM management.
• Digital Transformation (DT) – Leads development of tools and processes supporting hardware and software engineering in requirements management, MBSE, CAD, BOM, materials engineering, modeling & simulation, virtual validation, configuration management, change management, visualization, analytics, data…