Sr. Engineer, Seatbelts

About Lucid

At Lucid, we are creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. Built on Lucid’s proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture, our award-winning vehicles bring our “Compromise Nothing™” approach to the global automotive market. That means refusing to choose between performance and sustainability, design and engineering, ambition and integrity. In Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity, we have designed and built vehicles that have redefined their segments, combining exceptional range, performance, design, and expansive space in a single experience.

We achieve this through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production happening in-house across our global offices and manufacturing facilities. Our teams come from industries around the world, united by a shared commitment to excellence. By refusing to settle, you can help redefine what’s possible and shape the future of mobility.

Restraints team has responsibility over the airbags, seatbelts, and steering wheels at Lucid Motors, taking the inputs from interfacing teams and the technical product description, and managing the products from concept through the production life such that they meet all requirements. What is unique about Lucid Restraints, and Lucid more broadly, is the opportunity and expectation for each individual to gain autonomy and take ownership of their product area, while making decisions in collaboration with and in support of the broader team’s expertise.

We are currently seeking a Sr. Engineer, Seatbelts, reporting to the Manager of Steering Wheel Unit and Seatbelts. This position requires an excellent understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals with enough experience with Seat Belt system development to be responsible for seatbelt projects with autonomy. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate excellence in their respective fields, to possess the ability to learn quickly and to strive for perfection within a fast-paced environment.

The candidate with the target experience and ability would have the opportunity to define the strategy and architecture of the seatbelt system, and influence our design processes and methods used for assessment. The role would start with sustaining existing projects and developing their new variants and derivatives, but is expected to have increasing duties on new development over time.

• Develop and sustain seat belts systems, across the whole product lifetime: from system specification development, sourcing, packaging, drawing release, design validation to ramp up, manufacturing support to post SOP maintenance.
• Achieve product technical excellence as well as economical, timing and quality targets.
• Collaborate with the design studio, ergonomic, seating, BIW and interior engineering teams to develop the optimum restraint system packages for occupant protection performance and interior styling.
• Provide guidance and requirements to internal teams on required reaction forces or displacements, keep out zones, and lead conceptual design of required guides, brackets, etc.
• Manage Tier 1 suppliers for both engineering development and program timing. Function as the main point of contact for all supplier interfaces.
• Support restraint system integration work:
  1) Seatbelt integration into seat, BIW and other surrounding vehicle environments, accounting for seat kinematics and related interactions during crash events.
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  Provide expertise on restraint system design to help achieve regulatory and consumer safety targets for our new vehicles. Work closely with CAE and Crash Test teams to provide design inputs and utilize CAE and test results to optimize the component design.
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