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Ford Motor Company Early Career-Vehicle Hardware Engineering Full-Time in Topeka, Kansas
What you’ll be able to do:
At Ford, the Vehicle Hardware Engineering (VHE) teams are utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that will delight our customers. Our employees are laser-focused on bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. From autonomy and electrification to smart mobility technologies, our teams around the world are working together with excitement to make smart vehicles for a smart world.
The VHE teams are looking to fill early-career, entry-level engineering roles throughout a variety of teams.
*Examples of areas of opportunities in Vehicle Hardware Engineering (VHE) include: *
Exterior and Structural Systems Engineering – Responsible for the design and release of exterior & vehicle structure parts that include body structure, frame, battery tray, doors, fascias, handles and latches, mirrors, glass, wipers, static and dynamic sealing, badges, and other exterior ornamentation.
Interior Systems Engineering – Responsible for components as well as the safety related components in the vehicle interior such as insulation and carpeting, to seat structures, floor shifters, instrument panel, display screens, switches and decorative trim.
Underbody Systems - Responsible for world class concept designs that are capable of meeting a full range of targets including vehicle driving dynamics, NVH, safety, appearance, cost, quality, and weight for underbody engineered systems including brakes, suspension, transmission, steering systems, and wheels/tires.
VHE- Systems - Provides essential engineering solutions and systems integration to and for the engineering function teams including Design Assurance & Quality; Systems & Hardware Integration; Engineering Design (CAD) and Bill-of-Material (BOM)
Electric and Electronics Hardware - Responsible to deliver hardware competence and design leadership for the engineering, technical direction and management of Tier-1 Electronic modules, ECU hardware electronics and Wiring systems for Core component development, application deployment, and strategic management across the enterprise.
Six Sigma - Responsible to support quality, warranty, and customer satisfaction for components & software applications throughout the vehicle
Digital Transformation - Responsible for leading the development and execution of software (S/W) based tools & processes that support hardware (H/W) and software development
Flexible Vehicle Architecture - FVA consists of the following teams including Vehicle Architecture (VA) Team that owns vehicle sizing, occupant position and mechanical integration; Vehicle Safety Team to integrate the safety load path and critical content early during architecture development; CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) Integration Team that is developing new methods to support efficient architecture development and managing the early CAE process using conceptual modeling to stress test the architecture bandwidth.
What Are We Looking For?
0-3 years of Engineering Experience
Pursuit of a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in one of the following fields:
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Systems Engineering
Computer Engineering or Computer Science
Mechatronics Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
Data Analytics
Semiconductor Engineering
Aerospace/Aeronautical, Biomedical, Chemical, and other disciplines in key areas
Mathematics, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, or similar degree
Materials Science/Engineering
Metallurgical Engineering
Minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (or equivalent)
Candidates must graduate and be available for full-time work prior to September 2025
Preferred Requirements:
GPA of 3.4 on a 4.0 scale (or equivalent)
Involvement with Formula SAE or similar extracurricular activities
Outstanding communication skills
Ability to work within a diverse team
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
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
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Requisition ID : 35346