Durability and Loads Engineer

Role Overview

• Act as a single point of contact for managing the durability attribute for a vehicle program.
• Contribute to road load simulations to provide design loads for different vehicle systems such as chassis parts, body structures, powertrain mounts, and many other systems.
• Represent durability in architecture reviews and support the development of the architecture with an eye on durability performance and good loads management.
• Support loads analysis studies during the virtual development of the vehicle to best tradeoff tuning ranges with other attributes like Vehicle Dynamics and NVH.
• Monitor the CAE results from cascaded design loads and report out results through internal management reviews.
• Assist CAE and D&R teams with how to best use loads for CAE studies and/or testing to include items like understanding generic standards, strength and endurance concepts, PSD analysis, and simple block cycle development.
• Lead pre-durability planning with support from colleagues – lessons-learned from previous testing, ensuring spare parts are handled, and that the overall durability plan is aligned throughout the organization.
• Develop and maintain the vehicle level durability verification plan and program durability health chart.
• Durability Milestone assessments (Champion Program Design Reviews, and Milestone). Be the voice of the Durability team to report out the state of full vehicle durability testing summaries for milestone status.
• Interface with various functional and test teams to ensure test methods align with vehicle level test requirements, and issues are captured, raised, and resolved.
• Ensure all team deliver according to product development timing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years Road Loads, Durability CAE, Durability Attribute, or Vehicle Attribute experience
• Master’s degree in mechanical engineering (Preferred)
• Strong experience in advanced road load simulations and design load development (ADAMS, Matlab)
• Experience with material strength and fatigue
• Experience in interpreting road load measurements and lab test results
• Familiarity with architectural tools (C123, CSE, etc)
• Programming Skills (e.g. MATLAB, Python, etc.)
• Experience using SimCenter (LMS) TestLab, nCode and Reliasoft
• Familiarity with NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or OPTISTRUCT
• Possess a growth mindset and desire to work in fast-paced and highly technical environment
• Highly motivated and proactive, with exceptional attention to detail
• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with strong communication and teamwork skills.

Tech Stack

• Python

Benefits

• 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.