Senior Design Technologist, Prototyper
Ford Motor Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto • California • United States
Visit company websiteExplore more
Salary
💰 $146,520 - $276,600 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Rapidly prototype next-generation UEV experiences across digital and physical touchpoints.
- Translate early concepts into interactive and functional prototypes that clarify journeys, flows, and interaction models.
- Support design reviews, leadership demos, and milestone presentations with compelling prototypes.
- Build prototypes to enable usability testing, customer clinics, and real-world validation.
- Iterate quickly based on feedback from research, engineering, and product partners.
- Develop reusable prototyping patterns and workflows that scale across the UEV platform.
Requirements
- Bachelors or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Strong experience creating prototypes across multiple levels of fidelity.
- 5+ years of experience in Prototyping
- Comfort working across design and engineering disciplines.
- Solid understanding of interaction design, UI architecture, and systems thinking.
- Ability to communicate ideas clearly through prototypes and storytelling.
- Experience working in fast-paced, iterative, cross-functional environments.
- Experience with automotive HMI, IVI, or embedded systems (even better).
- Familiarity with electrification, energy, charging, or power-management experiences (even better).
- Experience supporting research studies or customer clinics (even better).
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
prototypinginteraction designUI architecturesystems thinkingusability testingcustomer clinicsautomotive HMIIVIembedded systemsprototyping patterns
Soft Skills
communicationstorytellingcollaborationiterative developmentfeedback incorporationcross-functional teamworkdesign review supportpresentation skillsproblem-solvingadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor's degree