Road Loads Test Engineer

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A Road Loads Test Engineer is responsible for delivering vehicle measurements, design loads, loads analysis, and limited analytical simulations to support vehicle design, vehicle verification, and root cause analysis for durability incidents. The position is within the Unibody Road Load Section in the Durability and Road Loads Department, which is part of the Vehicle Engineering organization.

This position provides an opportunity to work with highly motivated and experienced engineers on the Road Loads team and to develop a cross-functional network of working with almost all the Functions and Attributes. You will be exposed to a lab environment with full vehicle testing on ICE, Hybrid, and BEV vehicles and a CAE environment with experienced Road Load CAE-based personnel working in the same group. Road Load test engineers are also continually interfacing with groups like Vehicle Dynamics, NVH, Chassis, Body, Powertrain Mounts, CAE teams, test verification teams, and some exposure directly with suppliers.

What You'll Do…

Position Duties:

• Opportunity to work with highly motivated and experienced engineers on the Road Loads team and to develop a cross-functional network of working with almost all the Functions and Attributes



• Provide timely and quality-measured road loads to facilitate Ford’s product development process for durability design and verification of components, systems, and vehicles



• Understand customers’ requirements and inquiries while providing clear and concise analysis and conclusions



• Set robust design road loads targets for Chassis, Body, powertrains, e-motors, high voltage batteries, and other functions



• Support the Unibody Road Load section in cross-functional attribute meetings and help ensure vehicle design changes do not violate load targets.



• Perform comprehensive road loads comparisons and assessments via signal processing techniques, and document load comparison results, conclusions, and recommendations.



• Be willing to grow into the position to also support the analytical Road Load team by supporting CAD information for models, understanding the fine details of measurements in relation to robust correlation techniques with models, and be willing to learn some of the simpler analytical techniques to support the team.

Specific Road Load Measurement Duties:

• Deliver vehicle measurements: instrumentation, calibration, data collection, data processing, and communication of results



• Translate customer requests into measurement requirements: instrumentation and test procedures



• Define and design custom load cells and transducers, including strain gage requirements and calibration techniques



• Use data processing tools like nCode and MATLAB to efficiently process road load data and analyze results.



• Provide operational instructions to technicians covering instrumentation, data acquisition, and test procedures



• Deliver efficiencies by helping to improve or refine measured strategies and methods



• Coordinate component testing and process data to create component models for use in Adams

You'll Have…

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering 
• 5+ years of Road Load experience
• 3+ years of experience in automotive
• 3+ years of Experience with nCode and Matlab (or equivalent) 
• 1 year of Limited experience with Signal Processing (statistics, filtering, spectral analysis, level counts, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience in SIEMENS Test Lab and SCADAS hardware (or equivalent)
• 5 years of applicable experience with various sensors, including wheel force transducers, accelerometers, telemetry, string potentiometers, and load cell development.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to present work in group settings

Even Better, you'll have…
• 8+ years of engineering experience
• Experience in full vehicle and sub-system (Chassis & P/T) modeling and simulation
• Strong experience with Signal Processing (statistics, filtering, spectral analysis, level counts, etc.)
• Experience in electronic controls, ECU, PCM, suspension control, CAN bus, or control systems.
• Fundamental knowledge of: multi-body dynamics, fatigue/durability theory, and modal analysis
• Ability to use the following software: DET, Catia or equivalent, and MSC ADAMS (A-Car, A-Chassis),

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 member,s 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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here:
This position is a range of salary grades 7 and 8 .

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. 

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