Hybrid Industrialization Design and Release Engineer

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Industrialization Design and Release Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $107,661 - $164,372 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Assembly, AWS
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• EDS Industrialization Design and Release Engineer at Ford Motor Company focusing on innovative vehicle wiring designs and ensuring manufacturing efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead 3D wire harness routing using Catia and Siemens NX for space, serviceability, and design.
• Translate system requirements into logical and physical schematics, ensuring representing circuits, signal flow, and component interconnections.
• Optimize design and partner with CAE to run circuit analysis simulations, identifying performance, thermal, and EMC issues.
• Develop design strategies to optimize manufacturability, assembly efficiency, and serviceability to reduce costs.
• Develop critical program-specific documentation including boundary diagrams and DFMEA for traceability, risk, and compliance.
• Lead development of manufacturing prints with Full-Service Supplier Partner.
• Define and manage wire harness family complexity, optimizing part numbers to streamline efficiency.
• Utilize common design principles and component standardization across vehicle programs.
• Create clear installation illustrations to facilitate efficient installation and maintenance.
• Establish and maintain a robust design version control system, maintaining a clear audit trail.
• Conduct thorough design reviews with Systems Engineering, Manufacturing or Quality, providing feedback to ensure designs meet requirements.
• Manage APQP for electrical components and wire harnesses to ensure suppliers meet requirements.
• Review pre-production and prototype vehicles to resolve electrical design issues and prevent recalls or warranty costs.
• Represent electrical design and industrialization team at vehicle prototype build events, provide on-site support, resolve design issues, and track in JIRA.
• Lead investigation and resolution of warranty issues, using AWS data to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Lead cost analysis of EDS components to reduce costs and optimize manufacturing.
• Define pinouts/terminal sizing for in-line connectors.
• Provide technical support in selecting fuse sizes, wire gauges and types, ensuring overcurrent protection and minimizing voltage drop.
• Configure power distribution and grounding.
• Assign and define electrical circuit options for vehicle configurations.
• Lead electrical compatibility reviews of EDS designs and sign off wire harness prints.
• Manage logical design data in Catia and Teamcenter to ensure data integrity, traceability, and security.
• Domestic and International Travel Required up to 20%.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering, or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
• 3 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Review 3D CAD for design validation of electrical wiring and components.
• 2. Review CAE reports to ensure proper system functions Design for Manufacturing (DFM) & Design for Assembly (DFA).
• 3. Identify and solve root cause of complex electrical system vehicle level concerns during prototype build phases.
• 4. Review vehicle wiring schematics for accuracy.
• 5. Verify wiring harness reliability with exposure to heat, cold, corrosion, moisture and other environmental factors.
• 6. Perform wire harness complexity analysis to ensure all buildable combinations are covered.
• 7. Implement wire harness updates based on campaign prevent reviews.
• 8. Develop and implement cost reduction ideas.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.