Professional, FEA Engineering

Professional, FEA Engineering

Values & Innovation At Under Armour, we are committed to empowering those who strive for more, and the company's values - Act Sustainably, Celebrate the Wins, Fight on Together, Love Athletes and Stand for Equality - serve as both a roadmap for our teams and the qualities expected of every teammate. Our Values define and unite us, the beliefs that are the red thread that connects everyone at Under Armour.

Our values are rallying cries, reminding us why we're here, and fueling everything we do. Our pursuit of better begins with innovation and with our team's mission of being the best. With us, you get the freedom to go further - no matter your role. That means developing, delivering, and selling the state-of-the-art products and digital tools that make top performers even better.

Purpose of Role Under Armour's Innovation team is looking for a Professional, Engineer Simulation who will be responsible for delivering engineering assessments, design evaluations and performance-related insights for footwear products and components using engineering simulation tools, such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA). This position will use these advanced tools and methods during Innovation, Design and Development phases to accurately predict, compare, and improve the responses of game-changing athletic footwear and component concepts prior to physical prototyping.

The Professional Engineer, Simulation role will combine the objectivity and clarity of engineering excellence with the energy and passion inherent to the world of sports, and will accelerate the benefit to our athletes. Bringing refined innovation to market sooner.

Your Impact

• Focus on the evaluation of concepts and designs of athletic footwear by using engineering first-principles and engineering simulation tools to influence and accelerate decision-making during the innovation, design and development of UA's future performance footwear product.
• Within the scope and timing needs of each project and in support of defined product performance targets, this role will deliver engineering assessments and design evaluations for footwear products and components using engineering simulation tools, such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA), while implementing established simulation test methods.
• Confirm and seamlessly integrate the key ingredients to successful engineering simulations:
  1) a clear description of the team's product performance ambitions and the project's timing expectations,
  2) the complex material dynamics of elastomeric foams, thermoplastic elastomers, plastics, composites, fabrics that may be used in the product,
  3) the 3D CAD of the product's components and assembly,
  4) the athlete-derived dynamic loads, motions, and sport environments
• Operate Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) software environments to create, edit, and manipulate 3D designs of footwear components and systems into a programmatic, virtual representation of real product that can then be cleanly and accurately processed numerically by high-performance computing (HPC) systems for subsequent review of predicted performance.
• Define, assign, troubleshoot, and correct the engineering assumptions, 3D representation, material properties, boundary conditions, analysis settings, and HPC operations of simulations to deliver influential, timely, and accurate results.
• Clearly communicate with Innovation, Design and Development teammates each project's progress, results, insights, design options, and material recommendations in an appropriate manner that assures team understanding, fosters open collaboration, builds trust, and accelerates decision-making.
• Support, communicate with, and empower the testing activities of other Innovation Functions.
• Creative thought partner to the broader Footwear Innovation team in exploration and refinement stages of product development.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of mechanical engineering first-principles
• An understanding of non-linear polymer and elastomeric material mechanics and dynamics, and associated characterization test methods
• Strong project management with adherence to established priorities
• Effecti…