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Product Development Engineer

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Exciting position to engineer best seat systems using highly sophisticated CAE simulations.

• Exciting position to engineer best seat systems using highly sophisticated CAE simulations.

• Outstanding environment to work in both CAE Program Application and CAE Core teams.

• Wonderful dynamic team environment and culture working together among Design, CAE & Test.

• Great career opportunity to engineer best seat systems (structure, mechanism, comfort, light weight).

• Conduct daily CAE assessment for seat structure development to meet safety requirements of FMVSS, ECE, AIS, IIHS, etc.

• Lead the global seat CAE supporting team to provide quality models, baseline analyses, iterations.

• Conduct test/CAE correlation to support program and to improve CAE method confidence.

• Develop new seat CAE methods.

• Lead the CAE team in engineering issue resolution.

• Work across seat and body CAE groups to optimize entire system.

• Learn and share new technical findings in the interior CAE department.

• 15+ years CAE experience in automotive.

• 15+ years in non-linear LSDYNA applying in seat, body, vehicle structure analyses.

• BS in Mechanical Engineering and MS in Engineering.

• Experienced in every aspect of seat CAE analyses supporting all FMVSS, ECE, AIS, IIHS requirements.

• Experienced in conducting seat structure analysis in body system.

• Experienced as technical team leader of an offshore modeling and analysis team.

• Personal hands-on experience in complex modeling of seat and body structures.

• Demonstrate highly teamwork working behaviors.

• Highly skills in all LSDYNA, Hypermesh, Ansa, Primer codes.

• Demonstrate experience in test/CAE correlation and method improvement.

• Linear Nastran skill is a plus.

• Experienced in Ford Product Development System and environment is preferred.

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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

https://fordcareers.co/GSRnon-HTHD

This position is a salary grade 8.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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Requisition ID : 32060