HV Battery Thermal CAE Engineer

Do you have what it takes to make smart vehicles for a smart world? Join the Ford Product Development team. We are seeking forward-thinking, laser-focused professionals with a passion for bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to such advancements as autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies and more!

• Perform 3D thermal/CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) analysis simulations on system, subsystem and component level high voltage battery packs using commercial CAE/CFD software.
• Perform 3D thermal/CFD simulations for battery malfunctions such as thermal runaway, thermal propagation and associated cell vent gas management. Propose and analyze countermeasures and design improvements.
• Post process and report thermal simulation results to product development teams to guide battery design in support of product development milestones.
• Develop and coordinate activities for verification and correlation of virtual/CFD models to physical test data, including test specification, instrumentation and data processing.
• Process battery malfunction test and CAE output data to generate input conditions for vehicle-level simulations. Coordinate associated vehicle-level thermal modeling and collaborate with broader engineering teams for vehicle-level thermal analyses.

• 5 years minimum experience in thermal analysis and 3D thermal / CFD simulation techniques. HV battery thermal modeling preferred.
• 3 years minimum working experience in thermal analysis supporting product development. 
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent degree. 
   

Preferred: 

• M.S degree preferred.
• Expert knowledge of heat transfer theory and CAE thermal analysis simulation methods.
• Physical thermal testing experience preferred, including thermal test data processing.
• Working knowledge of Computed Aided Engineering (CAE) software tools for heat transfer analysis, such as StarCCM+ and CAE model building software tools such as Ansa and Hypermesh.
• Working experience in CAD geometry cleanup for CAE, simulation model building and meshing, CAE model setup, model running and post-processing. Knowledge of scripting languages preferred.
• Opportunity to apply heat transfer methods and analysis techniques to drive the design and development of Ford’s future electrified powertrains.