Senior CAE Engineer, Durability

Overview

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

As Senior Durability CAE Engineer, you will be leading the assessment of durability attributes for various vehicle subsystems like suspension, body structures, powertrain, battery pack, interiors, exteriors, closures, seating, etc. Along with CAE assessments, you will also be involved in testing activities such as test plan development, test-to-CAD correlation, testing & validation, etc. You will have the opportunity to drive design changes by directly working with design teams through trade-off studies and design optimization loops.

You will work with different testing activities including regulatory, certification, and compliance testing as well as full-system, sub-system, and component-level testing.

Your exact job level (Engineer, Sr. Engineer, etc.) will be defined by your experience and technical ability and how well you demonstrate your skills during the interviews. You will be working with team members with different experience levels, and you will have opportunities to engineer groundbreaking products through innovations.

• Perform strength, stiffness, and fatigue analysis on different vehicle subsystems (chassis, closures, body structure, powertrain, etc.)
• Perform correlation between test and CAE
• Maintain traceable documentation for all durability analysis and test work
• Able to create FEM mesh from CAD or from rough sketches
• Support design engineers in ensuring parts meet all durability requirements
• Able to learn and use different CAE software tools (nCode Design Life, ANSA, Meta Post, Opti Struct, Hyperworks CAE products, ADAMS, etc.)
• Test and benchmark new analysis tools and techniques. Participate in new CAE method development, process automation and benchmarking tasks.

• 5+ years of related experience;
  Bachelor's or higher in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
• Experience in vehicle-level CAE analysis, testing, and development
• Experience with performing linear analysis, non-linear analysis, fatigue analysis, design optimization, dynamic analysis with industry-standard CAE tools
• Sound fundamental knowledge of structures and mechanics of materials
• Proficiency in using ANSA, Hyper Mesh, Hyper View, Meta Post, nCode, Opti Struct or similar CAE software
• Strong knowledge of vehicle performance requirements, deriving load cases from requirements, setting performance targets, developing testing and validation plans

Salary Range: $110,000-$120,000/K

The actual salary offered is dependent on location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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Drug Screening Requirement:
As a federal contractor, ALTEN USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.