Range and Performance Engineer Job Long Beach area,California USA,Engineering

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...Your lines of code will make our future more sustainable. As a systems engineer you will develop, modify, and correlate physics-based models for the system and subsystems that accurately predict vehicle performance. Your optimization will fight physics to find the most desirable outcome for the vehicle and our customers. You will work closely across functional teams to identify gains in efficiency and model/predict and test them.

What

you'll do

Create and modify tools of different fidelity for range and performance prediction
Create tools for system and vehicle level cost/performance and assess trade-offs
Integrate control systems & plant models from other functional domains
Platform-level optimization for vehicle attributes
Run sensitivity analyses to understand the design space and tradeoffs
Create vehicle-aligned component and system targets for function, cost, weight and more
Work with fleet data and make model improvements with on-road vehicle usage data and homologation cycles
Lead and contribute to design reviews, test plans, and requirements reviews to further optimize vehicle efficiency and performance cross functionally
Enable effective communications with subsystems and other engineering teams to deliver optimal design solutions
Support presentations of concepts and status to senior management and internally to Company personnel in an integration and subject matter expert role

You’ll have

Bachelor's Degree in Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Physics or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
7+ years of experience of developing physics-based models and an understanding of how that relates to vehicle performance
3+ year of experience homologating and launching a new product
High proficiency in any of Python/Matlab/Simulink/Dymola
Experience with Jira/Confluence or a similar system for tracking inputs/results

Even better, you may have

Masters or PhD Automotive/Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field
Experience with controls strategies for vehicle powertrain/dynamics systems
Experience with Microsoft Office, Confluence, and Jira applications
Experience with instrumentation and measurement of homologation cycles
Strong written and verbal communication skills
An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team
A system approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

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