Senior Validation & Simulation Integration Engineer

We are looking for a talented Senior Val‑Sim Engineer to join our Cummins Inc. team in Columbus, IN .

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Entry level/early career professional, product focused position verify and validate the functionality of Cummins’ products across a wide range of customer requirements, across a variety of applications, in various environments.
• Plan, track, and evaluate results from a wide range of analyses and functional tests to assess product risk and performance. These results are expected to drive quality decisions and proactively resolve product issues before the product reaches the customer.
• Obtain input and negotiate with Design Verification Plan and Report (DVP&R) stakeholders to define technical requirements and deliver an optimized component-based analytical and experimental verification plan to the program or project team.
• Make decisions in the areas of verification and validation that impact product performance, reliability, and durability. Investigates and addresses potential component concerns or issues, understands causal mechanisms, recommends appropriate action, owns problem resolution and documents results with guidance from more experienced team members.
• Apply and support the improvement of processes such as technical requirements, iDFMEA, Engineering Standard Work (ESW), DVP&R, test planning, and problem solving and tools such as Integrity, Microsoft Power BI, and McParts required to support the processes and enable high-quality decision making.
• Own problem resolution for moderately complex components, products, systems, subsystems or services with technical complexity and ambiguity increasing as experience is gained in the role.
• Provide independent execution of established work processes and systems, while still developing technology or product knowledge; engages with the improvement of systems and processes.
• Involve minimal direct management of people but could involve the coordination and direction of work amongst technicians and/or temporary student employees. Contribute effectively toward team goals, exhibits influence within a work group and continues to develop proficiency in the competency areas critical to success in the role.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Product Test Integration and Optimization - Develops a physics-based understanding of customer duty cycles via damage modeling, using real world collected data representative of the full range of customer usage; compares analytical and experimental results and resolves differences to maintain calibrated analytical models; generates experimental testing plans that deliver optimal analysis and test coverage.
• Product Failure Mode Avoidance - Mitigates potential product failure modes, by identifying interfaces, functions, functional requirements, interactions, control factors, noise factors, and prioritized potential failure modes and potential failure causes for the system of interest to effectively and efficiently improve the reliability of Cummins’ products.
• Product Interface Management and Integration - Identifies and analyzes the interfaces and interactions across system boundaries by specifying the requirements and limits to ensure that the product meets requirements; controls the interactions across the system element boundaries by making sure that they remain within specified limits; integrates system elements by creating an integration plan, including identification of method and timing for each activity to make it easier to find, isolate, diagnose, and correct.
• Product Problem Solving - Solves product problems using a process that protects the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based…