Ford Motor Company

Technical Specialist, Mechatronics

Ford Motor Company • $115K — $218K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering
  • 10+ years of progressive engineering experience
  • 3+ years in engineering requirements, validation planning, and DFMEA
  • 3+ years leading technical reviews with suppliers and engineering teams

Responsibilities

  • Drive design requirements and validation strategy for closure electronic modules
  • Define technical requirements for closure features including mechanical and electrical interfaces
  • Lead validation of electronic module assembly and environmental exposure tests
  • Audit test data and ensure compliance with Ford standards
  • Support supplier technical reviews to confirm subsystem compliance
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve design and validation issues
  • Document and analyze failure modes to improve design and standards

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work environment with onsite requirements
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship
  • Access to advanced engineering resources and training
  • Collaborative cross-functional team engagement
  • Involvement in innovative vehicle systems development
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
Seeking a Technical Specialist, Mechatronics to serve as the subject matter expert for the robust design, validation, integration, and production performance of closure-related electronic modules and subsystem interfaces.
This role provides technical leadership across closure features such as door and window systems, liftgates, tailgates, frunk and interfaces such as hood mechanisms, latches, actuators, switches, sensors, and others.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

The Technical Expert will drive design requirements, validation strategy, supplier technical alignment, issue resolution, lessons learned, and cross-functional knowledge transfer to ensure closure systems meet Ford quality, durability, functional, and customer experience expectations.

Technical Leadership and Requirements Ownership
  • Lead development, maintenance, and deployment of Ford closure electronic module and subsystem design requirements, ensuring best practices are applied across applicable closure features and module designs.
  • Define and document technical requirements for materials, environmental exposure, durability, electrical interfaces, mechanical interfaces, architectural compatibility, and system-level robustness.
  • Establish clear design expectations for closure-related modules and interfaces such as sensors, actuators, switches, latches, cinching or power open-close features, window lift systems, liftgates, tailgates, frunks, hoods, and related interfaces.
  • Review early program assumptions to identify unique noise factors, customer usage patterns, quality history concerns, and potential failure mode risks.


Validation, Verification, and Design Robustness
  • Lead the electronic module assembly validation requirements process, including definition of validation expectations for electrical performance, mechanical stresses, environmental exposure, and system interactions.
  • Own and maintain corporate validation documents, module validation best practices, and closure subsystem validation guidance for use across programs and engineering teams.
  • Audit physical test data, CAE evidence, Design Rules, requirement compliance evidence, and program-level verification artifacts at key milestones.
  • Confirm that testing meets Ford standards, corporate requirements, Design Rules, and applicable program-specific validation needs.


Supplier, Manufacturing, and Program Execution
  • Support technical reviews with module suppliers to confirm compliance with closure subsystem design, validation, assembly, and manufacturing requirements.
  • Collaborate with Supplier Technical Assistance, module core engineering, component engineering, system engineering, manufacturing, and vehicle program teams to resolve requirement compliance, configuration, function, and assembly validation issues.
  • Drive data-based audits and deep dives at key vehicle program milestones to evaluate closure subsystem design maturity, evidence quality, and production readiness.


Issue Resolution, Lessons Learned, and Knowledge Transfer
  • Troubleshoot closure feature behavior, customer concerns, functional issues, module configuration concerns, and interface-related failures across mechanical, electrical, and software boundaries.
  • Document failure modes, root causes, corrective actions, and lessons learned to improve future design requirements, validation methods, quality history, and engineering standards.
  • Lead cross-product communication of closure system design and manufacturing best practices, including updates to technical documentation and corporate knowledge repositories.
  • Develop and deliver training, seminars, mentoring, and technical coaching for design and release engineers, module engineers, supplier-facing teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 10 or more years of progressive engineering experience
  • 3+ years of experience with engineering requirements, validation planning, design validation, DFMEA, Design Rules, technical documentation, and evidence-based issue resolution.
  • 3+ years of proven ability to lead complex technical reviews with suppliers, internal engineering teams, manufacturing teams, quality teams, and program stakeholders.


Even better, you may have...
  • Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
  • Strong understanding of closure system interfaces, including mechanical mechanisms, electronic modules, sensors, actuators, switches, software interactions, wiring, and vehicle-level integration.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and communicate technical topics clearly to leadership and working-level teams.
  • Recognized technical leadership experience in body, closure, enclosure, or electronic module systems.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, creating technical training, and deploying best practices across multiple vehicle programs.
  • Experience supporting supplier technical assistance, manufacturing launch, design verification, quality actions, and customer concern resolution.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement, apply lessons learned, and strengthen corporate engineering standards.


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!

This position is hybrid with a requirement 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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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
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