Senior EDS Integration Engineer

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In this position... 

The EDS (Electrical Distribution Systems) Design Engineer will be responsible for vehicle side electrical wire harness design and integration. You will interact with internal and external electrical component engineers to ensure that the harness efficiently meets device requirements and seek ways to improve harnessing and EE architecture. You will be hands on with labcar and vehicle builds as you support bring-up and troubleshooting of vehicle. You will Conceptualize, Design, Engineer, Develop and support the launch of EDS designs for next generation Model e products.

What you'll do...

• Drive the electrical wiring system design based on functional requirements and electrical network architectures. 
• Work with EDS and Subsystem engineers to establish harness partitioning and complexity strategies to minimize wire count, optimize harness cost, and weight impacts to vehicle line. 
• Influence the design of grounding, and network topolgies.
• Investigate and introduce new harness technologies. 
• Review, consume and maintain Device Transmittal information to ensure logical and physical harness designs meet component requirements. 
• Develop vehicle logical and physical electrical schematics in ECAD working with hardware / software / architecture teams to find optimal and innovative solutions for wiring harness integration, own technical issues as they arise and drive them to resolution. 
• Lead wire sizing and terminal selection activities based on the power profile of devices.
• Review schematics and 2D drawings to ensure supplier has all information required to manufacture our wiring harnesses. 
• Support vehicle and Tier I assembly lines during the vehicle development phases for harness reviews, validate system level change implementation and drive issue resolution to ensure on-time deliveries. 
• Collaborate with systems integration and test engineers to bring-up and troubleshoot electrical test assets such as breadboard or lab-car to validate electrical design functionality.

You'll have... 

• B.S. in Electrical, Mechatronics or Industrial Engineering 
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing EDS Designs in an automotive or similar industry (ie. Aerospace, Complex Medical Device, etc) 
• 5+ years of experience using 2D & 3D EDS Tooling (ie. Vector Preevision, Mentor Capital, Zuken, etc) 
• 5+ year of experience in a mass production setting launching new products 
• Strong Electrical Engineering fundamentals

Even better, you may have...

• Hands-on experience building and launching automotive products and vehicle prototyping
• Familiarity with efficiently handling EDS complexity 
•  Experience with Microsoft Office, Confluence, and Jira applications 
• Experience with instrumentation of prototype vehicles in a controlled lab environment 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills 
• An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team 
• A system approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement 
• Experience deriving cost, manufacturability, reliability and failure modes tradeoffs from based on specific designs
• 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!

This position is a salary grade 8.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR-HTHD

Visa sponsorship is available for this position. 
 

Onsite work of up to three days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location.  #LI-Hybrid   #LI-BB1