Senior Powertrain Structures Design Engineer · Ford Motor Company

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:14:40 GMT
Engineering

Ford Motor Company · Palo Alto · $115,800-$232,700 · hybrid

We're looking for a Senior Powertrain Structures Design Engineer to join our Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team. In this role, you'll be responsible for designing power unit case housing and structures, driving part placement and power unit architecture from concept phase through production. You'll work closely with CAE support to topology optimize housings, mounts, and other structures, and investigate exploratory materials and composites. Your goal will be to create robust designs for automotive applications and automated mass manufacturing.

Responsibilities:

Define durability and duty cycle requirements

Work with CAE support to topology optimize housings, mounts, and other structures

Investigate exploratory materials and composites

Cost optimization with vehicle bounties

Create robust designs for automotive applications and automated mass manufacturing

Contribute to design reviews and requirements reviews to further optimize the powertrain system cross-functionally

Support presentations of concepts and status to senior management and internally to company personnel

Drive powertrain innovations of future technologies that provide benefit to the product; both short- and long-term roadmap items

Perform rapid calculations and mechanical layout iterations in CAD in order to validate assumptions and funnel design concepts down

Generate and maintain detailed 3D CAD of entire power unit assemblies and production drawings

Foster good CAD practices

Aid prototype power unit builds and drive development and validation testing campaigns

Manage subcomponent interfaces and related workstreams/requirements, including all power unit tolerance analysis

Collaborate closely with powertrain modeling, NVH, controls, and test engineering functions

Lead key design reviews and visualization or demonstration activities

Qualifications:

Bachelor's or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

5+ year track record of detailed mechanical design and manufacturing execution of precision machinery

Fundamental understanding of high pressure die casting, mold flow, case fatigue, topology optimization theory

Knowledge of high-volume manufacturing processes, materials, and supply chains

Strong engineering fundamentals in the areas of materials, mechanics, dynamics, design for manufacturability, tolerancing, high precision metrology, process control, statistics

Experience with 3D CAD and 2D drafting skills

Hands-on experience building and launching automotive products

Cad experience using 3DX or CATIA V5/V6

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Experience using Confluence, Jira, Asana, or other project management tools

Eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high-performing team

System approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement

Experience in high-pressure die-cast design work

Benefits:

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

Salary:

This position is a salary grade 7-8 and ranges from $115,800-$232,700. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility, and competitive market value.