Power Electronics Design Engineer

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Fords Electric Vehicles Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the companys 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. Youll 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 Power Electronics Design Engineer will own complex drive unit inverter sub-components from concept through production including development of related assembly and manufacturing processes. You will be responsible for driving the development of parts and processes with substantial impact on vehicle-level cost and performance.

What youll do...

- Own inverter mechanical parts from concept through production including part design and release.
- Develop manufacturing processes including running DOEs and executing process validation.
- Design and execute physical tests in a lab environment including designing fixtures / test equipment.
- Plan coordinate and execute test campaigns for design verification of inverter sub-components and the inverter system.
- Optimize costs from design to manufacturing and create robust designs for automotive application.
- Own mechanical parts for inverters driving optimization for durability efficiency and performance.

Youll have...

- Bachelors or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- Robust foundation in engineering first principles with good engineering judgement.
- Intellectual honesty curiosity and humility.
- Mechanical Engineering or similar degree.
- Strong CAD skills (Catia / 3DX preferred).
- Hands-on experience building and testing hardware in a prototype / lab environment (strong workshop skills preferred).

Even better you may have...
- 5 years of experience designing developing and releasing products (power electronics or similar devices brought to production preferred)
- Passionate and curious about deep technical problems and driven to deliver engineering excellence.
- Experience releasing prototype and production parts including drafting GD&T tolerance analysis and DFM.
- Experience managing or working closely with manufacturing partners contract manufacturers and in-house manufacturing teams to bring parts to production.
- Experience using finite element methods for optimizing and validating structural thermal and electrical systems.
- Experience designing and executing durability and design verification campaigns.
- Experience leading design / process FMEAs for electronics and/or automotive systems.
- Experience designing parts fixtures and tools for prototype manufacturing processes including CNC milling / turning / EDM 3D printing press-brake sheet metal and low volume tooled processes.
- Experience designing parts for high volume manufacturing processes including casting forging stamping extruding injection molding overmolding and machining.
- Experience troubleshooting / triaging prototype and production build issues.
- Strong written and verbal communication / presentation / story-telling skills.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and project leadership skills.

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve 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 builderor 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 Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 7-8 and ranges from $80.

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