Ford Motor Company

AI/ML Battery Manufacturing Technologist

Ford Motor Company • $132K — $250K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, or Electrical preferred) with ML/data science coursework or hands-on experience.
  • Strong plant-floor instincts for real-world application of engineering principles.
  • Proficient in Python and familiar with plant data sources like MES, historians, and PLC data.
  • Experience in process or manufacturing engineering, with a preference for battery, semiconductor, coatings, or high-volume processes.
  • Proactive mindset with ability to collaborate effectively with operators, technicians, and process engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze production data to identify losses, including scrap, downtime, and quality escapes.
  • Develop and implement models for improving coating and formation quality, defect detection, and yield optimization.
  • Translate model outputs into actionable changes, including process adjustments and error-proofing initiatives.
  • Share insights and reusable models with the central technologist to enhance processes across all plants.
  • Manage local data infrastructure, ensuring effective integration of MES, historians, PLC, and inline measurement tools.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with in-office requirements four or more days a week.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

Drive continuous improvement in yield, scrap, quality, and throughput, and find the next opportunities the central technologist can turn into standards.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Work the line day to day: find the losses (scrap, downtime, quality escapes) and put AI and analytics against the ones that pay.
  • Build and deploy models on plant data for coating and formation quality, defect detection, and yield root cause, with the central technologist and vendors.
  • Turn model output into action: parameter changes, error-proofing, and standard work with process, controls, and quality.
  • Feed findings and reusable assets back to the central technologist so both plants benefit.
  • Own the local data connection: MES, historians, PLC and OT data, and inline metrology.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelors of Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial OR Electrical preferred), with coursework or hands-on work in ML, data science, or analytics.
  • Strong plant-floor instinct.
  • Comfortable with Python and plant data (MES, historians such as PI or Ignition, PLC data).
  • Process or manufacturing engineering experience; battery, semiconductor, coatings, or another high-volume process is a plus.
  • Bias to action, and the credibility to work shoulder to shoulder with operators, technicians, and process engineers.


This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $132,800-$250,800.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's 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: https://fordcareers.co/LL6

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.

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1903
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