Senior PDM Data Architect
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States
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Salary
💰 $63,480 - $106,680 per year
Job Level
About the role
- This role focuses on creating and maintaining "lightweight," fully configurable 3D models used for digital marketing, virtual reality, and configurators.
- Harvesting complex CAD data, managing graphics and material samples, and ensuring that downstream creative studios have the accurate, verified technical assets needed to create world-class marketing imagery and communications.
- Building and maintaining complex logic structures within data models to ensure they accurately reflect all possible vehicle combinations (trim levels, regional variants, and optional equipment).
- Continuously updating existing data models to reflect "running changes" and engineering updates throughout the vehicle's development and production phases.
- Collaborating with the visualization team to solve everyday workflow bottlenecks and contribute to the evolution of the team’s data pipeline.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Digital Media, Industrial Design, Computer Animation, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience in 3D data preparation.
- Proficiency in Teamcenter Engineering, Digital Buck, and PLM/DAM systems.
- Strong working knowledge of Autodesk Maya (import verification/modeling) and DeltaGen.
- Familiarity with CAD formats, and engineering-to-CGI conversion pipelines.
- Excellent interpersonal skills for navigating supplier relationships and internal Ford departments (Design, Engineering, Public Affairs).
- Ability to manage hundreds of digital assets and physical samples simultaneously with high attention to detail.
- Understanding of vehicle components (powertrain, interior trim, decals) and the ability to read automotive Order Guides.
- Strong critical thinking with ability to analyze complex data sets and determine the most efficient way to build a digital product.
- High level of accuracy in interpreting automotive documentation to ensure correct representation of digital data.
- Proven ability to adapt and switch between multiple projects in a fast-paced automotive environment.
- Ability to work independently on complex data tasks while remaining a proactive contributor to team-wide deliveries and solutions.
- Experience in scene tree management, variants, and staging (DeltaGen).
- Strong understanding of poly-modeling and UV mapping (Autodesk Maya).
- Proficiency in Photoshop (texturing) and Illustrator (vector graphics/decals) (Adobe Creative Suite).
- Familiarity with navigating PLM/PDM environments to locate and view engineering data (TCVis) is a plus.
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
3D modelingCAD data managementdata modelingscene tree managementpoly-modelingUV mappingdata preparationtexturingvector graphicsengineering-to-CGI conversion
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillsattention to detailcritical thinkingadaptabilityindependenceproactive contributioncollaborationproblem-solvingproject managementcommunication