Ford Motor Company

Procurement

• Support sourcing and cost management activities for IPTS Cooling commodities to achieve program and business objectives.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and suppliers to support product development, launch readiness, and issue resolution.
• Analyze supplier quotations, cost breakdowns, and market intelligence to support sourcing recommendations and negotiations.
• Lead and track action items with suppliers to ensure timely delivery of commitments, milestones, and launch requirements.
• Communicate effectively with global teams and suppliers in English, preparing presentations, reports, and executive-ready summaries.
• Gain hands-on experience in automotive purchasing while contributing to the development and launch of current and future vehicle programs.

Purchasing Trainee

Engineer

• Design, develop, validate, and release parts for assigned programs
• Identify design improvements to increase quality and optimize cost and weight
• Interface between the Core Electronic Systems team and vehicle program teams to ensure deliverables are met at each program milestone
• Work with suppliers and Vehicle Architecture engineers to package ECUs in the vehicle environment
• Manage VSEM, Teamcenter, FEDE, JIRA, AIMS, QED, WERS, and Control Tech
• Lead supplier teams in supporting builds with parts, CRs, and alerts
• Support program builds, lead vehicle-level validation testing, and lead issue resolution
• Review existing benchmarking data and obtain new data as needed to ensure optimal design and cost at J1
• Contribute to corporate and department TVM (Total Value Management) and quality objectives

PD Engineer, Intern

Platform Engineer

• Perform SAP Business Intelligence development and support for Europe and North America landscapes
• Understand and work with SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), and SAP Business Data Cloud
• Support current development in FCSD Europe and North America
• Complete knowledge transfer from the FCSD EU development team
• Support the Datasphere production environment during mid-2026
• Expand the team’s BI and Analytics footprint across SAP landscapes in North America
• Coordinate BI activities with SAP Security and Basis teams
• Help coordinate tasks and reporting for the SAP Mexico team
• Report to the local People Leader

SAP Basis, HANA Platform Engineer

Technical Writer

• Develop and maintain technical documentation standards and templates for quality processes, test reports, and engineering records
• Establish document numbering, classification, and metadata conventions
• Partner with engineering and quality teams to standardize DFMEA/PFMEA, test report, and RCA templates
• Manage document control processes, including revision history, approval workflows, and archival, in coordination with the PLM Engineer
• Administer document review and approval cycles and ensure stakeholder sign-off before release
• Maintain obsolescence and retirement processes for superseded documentation
• Own creation, control, and governance of technical quality documentation across the Quality organization
• Support audit readiness, certification maintenance, organizational knowledge retention, and internal investigations

Technical Writer – Documentation Engineer

• Own the design, execution, and continuous improvement of End-of-Line (EOL) and Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) processes
• Maintain EOL and FAT procedures for all BESS product lines
• Translate design validation requirements and test methods into scalable, repeatable production test sequences
• Define pass/fail criteria, test sequencing, and traceable data capture requirements for each test station
• Serve as a key technical contact during customer-witnessed testing events
• Support onsite audits of customers
• Support testing, supplier, manufacturing, laboratory, and customer activities through occasional travel

Factory Acceptance Testing Process Engineer

Compliance

• Continuously monitor updates, revisions, and proposed changes to UL 9540/9540A, IEC 62619/62933, NFPA 855, NEC, UN38.3, and regional grid interconnection standards
• Maintain a regulatory horizon-scanning register tracking upcoming code cycles and anticipated effective dates by jurisdiction
• Interpret ambiguous or conflicting code language with legal, certification bodies, and external regulatory consultants
• Build and maintain jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction compliance matrices for markets where Ford Energy products are sold or deployed
• Decompose regulatory clauses into atomic, testable, unambiguous engineering requirements
• Maintain bi-directional traceability from regulation to requirement, design element, and verification test
• Partner with the Requirements and Test Methods Authoring Engineer to ensure regulatory-derived requirements have validated test methods
• Facilitate requirements walk-throughs with systems, electrical, mechanical, and software engineering leads

Regulatory Requirements Engineer

• Manage technical bankability reviews requested by project financiers, lenders, and independent engineers evaluating BESS project risk
• Prepare and maintain a standardized bankability package containing design basis, certification status, warranty terms, and quality process summaries
• Support responses to insurer technical questionnaires related to product safety, reliability, and failure history
• Coordinate and host customer, financier, and third-party quality system audits of engineering, manufacturing, and quality processes
• Prepare audit-ready documentation and coordinate manufacturing, engineering, and quality teams ahead of scheduled audits
• Track audit findings, drive corrective action plans, and report closure status to customers and internal leadership
• Serve as the technical face of Ford Energy Quality to customers, project financiers, insurers, and independent engineers

Customer Accreditation Engineer, Bankability and Audits

Full-stack Engineer

• Review and understand requirements for manufacturing tests
• Investigate software solutions for hardware design validation in cooperation with hardware and software team members
• Design, develop, and test manufacturing software to meet requirements
• Perform hardware/software technical debugging, troubleshooting, and log analysis to determine causes of manufacturing failures
• Fix bugs and make configuration changes to resolve analyzed problems
• Support functional testing of electronic control units at factories
• Support automated reliability testing for hardware design verification in lab environments
• Collaborate with local and remote team members and other Ford groups
• Provide direct on-site support at factory locations as needed

Manufacturing Software Developer – Test Station

Data Scientist

• Lead end-to-end data analysis on projects
• Partner with senior data scientists, business owners, database developers, and strategy partners to craft comprehensive analyses
• Report on performance with insights and recommendations
• Assess data, business objectives, and processes
• Develop clear and meaningful insights
• Create and maintain statistical data models
• Resolve data quality issues and identify underlying issues
• Compile and disseminate weekly, monthly, quarterly, and other performance reports
• Improve processes, data collection, delivery methods, and value
• Interpret requests and deliver appropriate metrics with essential context
• Develop metric reports that generate business value
• Apply A/B testing, audience segmentation, and content targeting to analysis

Technical Program Manager

• Drive engineering teams toward containment and resolution of issues from design reviews, virtual builds and build events
• Protect the program schedule through start of production (SOP) and ongoing production
• Maintain supplier relationships in collaboration with the Supply Chain team to ensure timely build-event deliveries
• Monitor work outputs and deliverables for system and vehicle incompatibilities and integration opportunities
• Ensure problems are transparent and risks are identified
• Proactively ensure risk-mitigation actions continue within relevant engineering teams
• Set agendas for key decisions to eliminate bottlenecks and retire risks
• Support cross-functional decisions across engineering, finance and strategy
• Travel up to 15% of the time
• Scope work, plan requirements, identify risks, estimate budgets and communicate progress
• Deliver integrated electric-vehicle interior systems targeting cost, weight, efficiency and operational tolerances

Senior Technical Program Manager – Interiors

Systems Engineer

• Lead completion and submission of the conceptual feature intake form and drive the feature through gate reviews to secure formal Feature Owner assignment
• Engage stakeholders to define problem statements, lifecycle contexts, INCOSE/EARS-compliant needs, use cases, and measurable success criteria
• Define system boundaries, external interfaces, internal architecture, behavioral models, and interface specifications with full traceability
• Lead functional safety, DFMEA, cybersecurity, and physical safety analyses; define prevention controls for critical failure modes
• Formalize system requirements with traceability and defined verification methods
• Validate requirements against stakeholder needs and MoE/MoP thresholds, resolve gaps, and hand off the logical requirements package to the Mechatronics application team
• Lead functional safety-to-DFMEA cross-validation and participate in joint system/subsystem sign-off
• Guide physical prototype strategy, approve builds against signed-off design intent, and provide technical guidance during test planning and execution
• Act as technical authority and escalation point for architecture, requirements, and DFMEA decisions
• Direct and prioritize modeling and testing support requests and represent Core SE at design reviews, program gateways, sign-off boards, and DFMEA workshops

Mechatronics Systems Engineer

Analyst

• Review customer feedback to identify and prioritize UX design updates for Touchscreen Centerstacks
• Review product designs and provide input on integrating them into the in-vehicle experience
• Leverage AI/LLMs to categorize customer feedback databases and identify design issues, including prompt development and manual verification
• Validate Touchscreen Centerstack UX and appearance quality to ensure implementation meets design intent
• Track UX issues through closure, document program status on healthcharts, and escalate delayed issues
• Create a prioritized list of UX and appearance quality updates with Product Management, Engineering, and Product Designers
• Support development of new tools and processes for early issue identification
• Work under Customer Confidence & Centerstack team leadership within Digital Product Design’s Digital Experience Quality center of excellence

Quality Analyst

• Lead CAE analysis of next-generation Model e products in Closures and/or Body Exteriors
• Work with D&R engineers to drive design resolutions using linear and non-linear CAE analysis
• Develop component, system, and vehicle-level CAE models and complete analysis following Ford CAE modeling/analysis guidelines
• Direct other analysts to create CAE models and run analysis
• Conduct DOE studies using optimization tools to meet performance requirements while balancing cost and mass constraints
• Develop CAE-based countermeasures to meet requirements
• Work with program members to develop design proposals meeting cost and weight targets

Body Exteriors and Closures Engineer

Research Engineer

• Support Ford’s product safety investigations process within the Pre-Investigation Review team or Vehicle Hardware Critical Concern Review Group
• Help determine whether issues require further review based on occupant and road-user effects, compliance considerations, occurrence considerations, and other factors
• Support investigations evaluating potential safety defects or regulatory non-compliance related to vehicle hardware systems
• Lead collaboration with Product Development, Ford Customer Service Division, Supplier Technical Assistance, Manufacturing, and Office of General Counsel
• Develop company contacts to support timely root-cause ownership identification
• Coordinate special tests and field surveys to assess facts in safety and compliance evaluations
• Prepare presentations and reports, including engineering analysis and special vehicle/component demonstrations
• Create and maintain investigation documentation and submit regulatory documentation as necessary
• Maintain trackers, dashboards, and status reports across concurrent safety-defect and compliance investigations

Safety Investigative Engineer

Product Manager

• Own and evolve the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for payments capabilities
• Translate customer, business, and technical requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Partner with engineering and design in an Agile/Scrum environment, participating in sprint planning, backlog grooming, stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Define success metrics and KPIs for features and product launches, ensuring instrumentation and measurement plans before go-live
• Use data and analytics to monitor product performance, identify opportunities, and inform prioritization
• Collaborate with engineering, UX, risk/compliance, finance, and operations stakeholders
• Conduct market, competitive, and customer research within the payments space
• Communicate product plans, progress, and outcomes to stakeholders and leadership
• Identify risks, dependencies, and trade-offs and drive decisions
• Champion experimentation, iteration, and continuous improvement