Weekend Performance Engineer Jobs in Irvine, CA (NOW HIRING)

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You'll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position... 
Your lines of code will make our future more sustainable.
As the Manager of Range & Performance you will lead trade-off studies for vehicle and HV architecture, lead and hire a world class team to develop, modify, and correlate physics-based models for the vehicle and subsystems that accurately predict vehicle performance. 

Your optimization will fight physics to find the most desirable outcome for the vehicle and our customers. You will work closely across functional teams to identify gains in efficiency and model/predict and test them. 

You'll have...

B.S. in Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

7+ years of experience of developing physics-based models and an understanding of how that relates to vehicle performance
1+ year of experience homologating and launching a new product
2+ years of leading a team
High proficiency in any of Python/Matlab/Simulink/Dymola 
Even better, you may have...
Masters or PhD Aerodynamics/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field
Experience with controls strategies for vehicle powertrain/dynamics systems
Experience with Microsoft Office, Confluence, and Jira applications
Experience with instrumentation and measurement of homologation cycles
Strong written and verbal communication skills
An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team
A system approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement
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 a leadership level 5 and ranges from $163,080-308,880.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL5

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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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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What you'll do...

Lead Range & performance studies for Advanced EV 
Plan workstreams that to deliver range & performance targets for program
Create and modify tools of different fidelity for range and performance prediction
Develop sensitivity analyses to understand the design space and tradeoffs
Hire and lead a world class team of Range & Performance engineers 
Create vehicle-aligned component and system targets for function, cost, weight and more
Data processing and model improvements with on-road vehicle usage data and homologation cycles 
Lead and contribute to design reviews, test plans, and requirements reviews to further optimize vehicle efficiency and performance cross functionally
Enable effective communications with subsystems and other engineering teams to deliver optimal design solutions
Lead presentations of concepts and status to senior management and internally to Company personnel in an integration and subject matter expert role
Support Software in the Loop strategies and execution