At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.
Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford Product Development team. Utilizing Design Thinking and User Experience methods, you will work to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We are seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to such advancements as autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies and more!
What you will be able to do
You will play a key role in the creation of best-in-class mobility concepts as you handle electric machine control/calibration algorithm design and software implementation. This will involve the characterization and calibration of electric machines, including calibration procedure development/verification as well as control algorithm and calibration development during dynamometer and vehicle testing. You will:
- Lead the development of electric machine and power electronics algorithm improving fuel economy, driving performance and NVH reduction
- Refine electric machine and power electronics control software tuning and the optimization for fuel economy
- Create and support advanced data post-processing scripts, electric motor modeling and motor control requirements
- Support hardware sensors, switching devices and passive components specification development
- Develop MATLAB models for controls design and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
- Specify design verification methods
- Plan testing in electric motor dynamometer
The minimum requirements we seek
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
- 1+ year of experience with electric machine drive control systems
Our preferred requirements
- PhD in Electrical Engineering
- 2+ years of experience with electric machine drive control systems
- 2+ years of experience with Motor control or advanced training in electric machine drive or power electronics controls design or development calibration
- Working knowledge of control system and software design, including C Programming language
- Working knowledge of electric motor modeling and control algorithm, simulation tools including MATLAB/SIMULINK
- Experience with electric motor dynamometers, ATI Vision and hybrid vehicle operation
- Course or training experience in electric machine design and modeling, discrete-time digital control and power electronics control