Development Engineer - Intermediate

Description

• The Development Engineer Intermediate will be responsible for design crash avoidance packaging to ensure the vehicle is compliant with vehicle safety regulations. The Engineer will review vehicle tree drawings, supplier CAE analysis results, and virtual engineering crash simulation results iteratively for all crash modes. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Provide feedback for design robustness.
• Track and convey issues discovered.
• Maintain the product book for all electrified programs for safety and compliance items.
• Document best practices that will be updated for the Company’s internal continuous improvement.
• The Engineer in this position shall provide required technical assessments to management and the vehicle teams to assure successful and timely implementation of the safety requirements.
• Facilitate the creation of safety procedures, such as first responder’s guide, power up and power procedures, and service procedures.
• The Engineer is required to be familiar with safety regulations, safety feature implementation, packaging constraints, and vehicle-level CAD drawings.
• Work with the powertrain Center of Excellence team and HV safety subsystem team to ensure best practice design features and processes are implemented for manufacturing, assembly, reliability, and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Material Engineering from an ABET accredited, or ABET equivalent university.
• 2+ years of experience in product engineering design and development, with emphasis on systems and product development.
• Knowledge and understanding of development tools and techniques such as Value and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, design for manufacture, design for assembly, and design for service.
• Experience in working with suppliers to ensure that best practices and lessons learned are implemented in the component design and document these for the company’s internal continuous improvements.
• Familiarity with Geometric dimensioning and tolerance of the drawing.
• Familiarity with CAD drawings.
• Familiarity with basic mechanical engineering fundamentals related to design, stress analysis, materials, etc.
• Basic knowledge of connector engineering.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate activities with cross-functional teams.
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Master's degree, as accredited by ABET or ABET equivalent; other graduate-level technical degrees in the specific area of relevant specialty expertise.
• Great knowledge of electrification technology, functionality, and features on the system level.
• Familiarity with FMVSS305 and ECEr100 regulations.
• Review and provide feedback on the component mechanical durability and fatigue analysis to suppliers for design robustness.
• Familiarity and understanding of casting materials, processes especially high-pressure die casting, mold flow simulations, and validation testing.
• Knowledge of fluid engineering such as coolant flow pressure drop simulations.
• Knowledge of power electronics systems and HEV & BEV experience.

Additional Information/ Must Have's:

• Must have CAD ability.
• Must know about Team Center and know how to use it.
• Good communicator able to convey ideas to people who hold different opinions than you, document all open point lists, and update packaging details and scorecards.
• Remote / Hybrid - Will be traveling to CTC 10%-20% - Meetings and come to the garage to see the vehicles or issues.
• NO DRIVING.