Ford Staff Powertrain Performance Modeling Engineer 

United States, California, Irvine 

685689637

Your lines of code will make our future more sustainable. As a systems engineer you will develop, modify, and correlate physics-based models for the system 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.

What you’ll be able to do:

• Create and modify tools of different fidelity for range and performance prediction
• Create tools for system and vehicle level cost/performance and assess trade-offs
• Integrate control systems & plant models from other functional domains
• Platform-level optimization for vehicle attributes
• Run sensitivity analyses to understand the design space and tradeoffs
• Create vehicle-aligned component and system targets for function, cost, weight and more
• Work with fleet data and make 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
• Support presentations of concepts and status to senior management and internally to Company personnel in an integration and subject matter expert role