Power Electronics Design Engineer
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $115,800 - $226,980 per year
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's 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).
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
mechanical designmanufacturing processesdesign of experiments (DOE)process validationCADfinite element methodsdraftingGD&Ttolerance analysisdesign for manufacturing (DFM)
Soft Skills
engineering judgementintellectual honestycuriosityhumilitycommunication skillspresentation skillsstory-telling skillscross-functional collaborationproject leadership