Job Description
Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?
Responsibilities
In this position as a Battery materials scientist:
Contribute to a team highly engaged in all aspects of battery materials research from material synthesis, characterization, processing into pouch and coin cells, and testing for electrochemical performance. Apply advanced X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) methods to battery materials, especially new cathode active materials. Apply advanced X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) methods to battery materials, especially new cathode active materials. The facility includes Empyrean XRD with a wide range of stages and capabilities, Zetium WDXRF, Miniflex XRD, handheld EDXRF instrument, and mapping XRF system.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Masters in battery materials science, engineering, or other related fields
- 3 years of experience in Li-ion batteries with experimental skills in processing active material, performing cell testing and advanced characterization methods, particularly XRD and XRF. (Thesis and/or Dissertation allowed)
- Battery material characterization experience should include X-rays scattering and fluorescence methods including general powder XRD, environmental XRD (high temperature under controlled gas exposure)
- Fundamental understanding of chemical processes and mechanisms within batteries from formation to end of life.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PhD in battery materials science, engineering, or other related fields
- Experience with synchrotron methods (XANES, EXAFS) and XPS is a plus.
- A wide range of material analysis experience is also desirable for corporate support activities.
- In-operando studies of test cells and elemental compositional analysis using WDXRF
- Relevant XRD analysis experience includes whole pattern fitting (e.g. Reitveld refinement) of X-ray powder patterns to determine phase composition, elemental substitution, and broadening effects. Experience with synchrotron methods (XANES, EXAFS) and XPS is a plus
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!
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.
This position is a salary grade 2.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRSP2
This position is a range of salary grades GSR 6-8.
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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