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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 deliverig 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...
Ford is seeking an experienced integration engineer who will be responsible for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) sub system device and feature development. This individual would ensure HVAC hardware and firmware is designed, implemented, and tested to meet Ford’s standards for safety and customer experience.
Ford is developing next generation integrated thermal systems that manage customer facing features such as the cabin climate, as well as the thermal needs of powertrain systems like the battery and power electronics. The thermal integration engineer will lead activities to select and introduce new hardware, create or refine new features and functionality, optimize performance and efficiency, as well as making the system robust and fault tolerant. It is expected that this engineer would master the details of the HVAC system by reviewing source code, root causing issues, and developing solutions to complex problems hands on in the lab or by performing in vehicle testing.
You'll have...
• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Mechatronics, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• Demonstrated ability to keep multiple projects moving forwards in parallel
• Thorough understanding of mechanical and electrical fundamentals and ability to apply them to automotive concepts.
• Experience with electrical / electro-mechanical devices involving networked micro controllers and embedded software
• Proven debugging and diagnostic skills in electrical, mechanical, and software domains
• Strong comprehension of embedded software development languages (C/C++)
• Experience with Python is desired
• Experience with CAN / LIN / Ethernet & associated software tools desired
Even better, you may have...
• Experience with Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA)
• Knowledge of thermal physics principles and fluid dynamics
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!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is a leadership level 6.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6SP4
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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What you'll do...
• Lead HVAC sub system integration by developing, executing, and reporting on integration test plans for hardware components and firmware features to rapidly retire risk from new designs and provide feedback to development teams.
• Work cross-functionally among mechanical, electrical, software and system architecture aspects and collaborate with design and development engineers across the organization to ensure a cohesive and comprehensive system design, requirements, and interfaces.
• Define and test software requirements for HVAC components, system functions, and customer features
• Develop validation strategies for these features, working with validation teams to ensure test coverage.
• Develop prototype test setups to integrate new subsystems with simulated and actual vehicle components
• Dig into data and source code to identify and debug issues at the component and system levels, proposing and leading implementation of robust solutions
• Lead and manage integration of initial prototype systems including bring-up, debug, and engineering test of alpha- and beta-phase prototype vehicles