Ford Motor Company

Supervisor - Research & Advanced Vehicle Integration

Ford Motor Company$115K — $218K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. or M.S. in mechanical, electrical, automotive engineering, or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in design and development of electrified propulsion systems or vehicles
  • 1+ years of experience testing electrified vehicle components or systems
  • Strong understanding of electrified vehicle architecture and components
  • Proven leadership in cross-functional teams with a track record of meeting program milestones
  • Experience with engineering problem-solving methods
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead the vehicle integration team for next-gen electrified vehicles
  • Oversee prototype builds and vehicle commissioning for propulsion systems
  • Design electrical architecture and ensure voltage compatibility
  • Conduct testing of new propulsion technologies across various platforms
  • Manage test fleet operations, logistics, and facilities
  • Analyze vehicle data to evaluate new propulsion tech
  • Apply systems engineering methods for technology development

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits, including adoption and fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discount program and management leases
  • Tuition assistance for continued learning
  • Engagement in employee resource groups
  • Community service paid time off
  • Generous paid holidays, including an extended break during the holiday season
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

The Research & Advanced Engineering Vehicle Integration Supervisor will lead the development, integration, and testing of innovative advanced electrified propulsion systems and technologies for future electrified vehicles.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

Lead vehicle integration team to develop, build, and test next-generation electrified light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty advanced electrified vehicles.

Lead electrified prototype vehicle and propulsion system builds, vehicle commissioning, development testing, troubleshooting, and repair.

Lead design of HV and LV electrical architecture, power distribution, and vehicle CAN/LIN network communications, voltage compatibility and load analysis, and device transmittals.

Lead testing of new propulsion system technology and vehicles on breadboards, dynamometers, and vehicles

Manage vehicle test fleet, breadboard lab, vehicle service garages, APTL site 20 AWD dyno operations, and material & storage logistics

Lead team through the collection and analysis of vehicle data to evaluate new propulsion system technology

Apply problem solving tools and methods to solve problems related to vehicle build, commissioning, and testing

Apply systems engineering tools and methods for new technology development

Qualifications

You'll have...

B.S. or M.S. in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, automotive engineering, or related field.

5+ years of experience in design and development of electrified propulsion systems, components, or vehicles

1+ years of experience conducting tests of electrified vehicle components or systems in labs, breadboards, dynamometers, HIL/SIL, or on-road.

Strong understanding of electrified vehicle architecture, systems, and components

Experience successfully leading large cross-functional teams with demonstrated track record of timely, high-quality delivery to program milestones

Experience using engineering problem-solving tools and methods to find and address root cause

Strong and effective leadership, communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills.

Ability to prepare and deliver concise technical project reviews to management

Even better, you may have...

Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, automotive engineering, or related field

Experience troubleshooting electrified prototype vehicles or components with diagnostic tools including data collection and analysis and driving issues to resolution.

Experience with electrified vehicle architecture design and testing, HV/LV EDS design, CAN/LIN network topology, electrical wiring schematics, and device transmittals.

Experience using data acquisition systems, data processing and analysis for design, development, and validation of propulsion systems

Demonstrated track record of delivering new technologies to vehicle programs

Familiarity with electrified vehicle controls and calibration strategies

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've 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 builder...or 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 Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.

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. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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1903
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