Vehicle Hardware Engineering Summer Internship

Job Description

What you’ll be able to do:

Looking for a great answer to the question – what did you do this summer? This is it! Through our Summer Internship, you’ll gain the experience, knowledge and skills to take your career to another level. Throughout this 12-week program, you’ll enjoy hands‑on involvement in some of the ground‑breaking initiatives we’ve got going on. In addition to developing technically and professionally, you’ll be able to build a network of friends and contacts.

At Ford, the Vehicle Hardware Engineering 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.

ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) Propulsion and Thermal Systems Engineering (IPTSE) – The IPTSE team is responsible for developing combustion engines and the associated subsystems such as fuel delivery, cooling, and climate control for the vehicle. Engineers are assigned across various support activities involving the design, development, CAE analysis, and testing of the various subsystems. Engineers typically follow the development process from pre‑program planning through prototype and production validation as well as product launch.

Vehicle Evaluation and Verification – The Vehicle Evaluation and Verification (VEV) organization at Ford Motor Company ensures customer satisfaction by building, testing, and evaluating prototype vehicles and systems. The exciting future vehicles only exist digitally until we bring them to life. We bring them to life and then push them to their limits in our VEV world of extreme conditions. VEV develops cutting edge product verification using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and state‑of‑the‑art test methods.

VEV has challenging opportunities across the following areas: VEV Prototypes, VEV Proving Grounds and Test Labs, VEV Signoff, & VEV METS (Materials Engineering, Testing, and Standards).

Vehicle Propulsion Systems Engineering – Our Team calibrates and optimizes the control systems of the powertrain (engine, transmission, driveline, electric motor) for Gas, Diesel and Electrified vehicles to deliver optimized system operation and customer desired attributes such as performance, drivability, fuel economy, electric driving, hybrid system operation, emissions, shift quality, all‑wheel drive operation, and other customer requirements. VPSE is responsible for integrating calibrations into each vehicle line that meets our customer’s expectations over a wide variety of operating conditions (from extreme cold to extreme hot, sea level to high altitude, low speed to high speed, on grades or with trailers, etc.)

efficiently and with exceptional quality. To meet these customer needs, the calibration and control system is optimized and validated through extensive development and validation testing, including with physical vehicle testing, powertrain dyno testing, and analytical test environments (HIL, SIL, Analytics). Today's high tech propulsion system controls have millions of lines of code and several thousand control system parameters. In order to optimize this complex system, our team is comprised of many skills with experts in control system calibration methods, systems engineering, analytics and data science, model development and continuous integration methods, scripting, programming, agile methods, automation, program management, engine after‑treatment design, etc.

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, lighting and other exterior ornamentation.

Interior Systems Engineering – Responsible for the design and release of components in the interior…