Product Development Engineer Exterior Lighting

We made history and now we work to transform the future for our customers our communities and our families. Youll 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.

Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative exciting and sustainable ideas to have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy electrification smart mobility technologies and more!

In this position...

The Ford Exterior Lighting Engineer role spans a variety of engineering fields including mechanical electrical software and optics. This position involves responsibilities including definition of requirements product design tooling validation testing and launching in an assembly plant during the development of Exterior Lighting products throughout a vehicles lifecycle. This role requires an engineer to lead and drive a cross functional team that includes lighting suppliers optics software studio purchasing manufacturing and quality functions.

Our ideal candidate desires to build their career as an engineer within exterior lighting. This candidate must demonstrate clear communication and project management skills and is a passionate hard-working person who enjoys taking on challenges and following through with robust solutions.

What youll do...

• Systems Engineering for Exterior Lighting
• Generate and execute technical solutions for Exterior Lighting components to support new vehicle programs
• Perform complex engineering evaluation analysis
• Work cross-functionally to implement cost savings product improvements and to support prototype and production build activities
• Balance attributes such as cost weight complexity and timing
• Production release of Exterior Lighting systems subsystems components and features
• Core requirement and technology development
• Communicate information to and from internal and external organizations
• Lead team meetings (suppliers designers engineers manufacturing supplier quality etc.)
• Travel as required (including international)

Youll have...

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or a related field
• 2 years of related automotive and/or lighting applications experience (inclusive of professional co-op and internship positions).
• The D&R Engineer is responsible for managing product release CAD and BOM structures including assembly positioning and mass attribute analysis. This role also includes facilitating supplier data integration and developing CAD studies to support and drive design improvements.

Even better if you have

Preferred

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Electrical Optical or Software Engineering
• Masters Degree or other Advanced Degree
• Familiarity with the engineering design of exterior lighting components
• Familiarity with Design For Six Sigma process
• Experience with DFMEA (Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) and ISO standards
• Knowledge of plastic materials plastic injection molding optics basic electrical/electronic circuitry software lamp manufacturing processes tooling fixture design and product validation
• Knowledge of global lighting regulations

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 salary grades 7 - 8 and ranges from $86600 -$166200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.

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