Durability
CAE Engineer
Newark, CA (Onsite)
9 Months contract
Job Description:
Durability CAE Engineer / Senior CAE Engineer, Durability
As Senior Durability CAE Engineer, you will be leading the assessment of
durability attribute 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 CAE correlation, testing
& validation etc. You will have opportunity to drive the design changes by
directly working with design teams by running trade-off studies and design
optimization loops. You will work with different testing activities like
Regulatory, Certification, and Compliance testing as well as different
full-system, sub-system & component level testing.
Your exact job level (Engineer, Sr. Engineer, etc.) will be defined by the
experience and technical ability you possess 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 opportunity to engineer groundbreaking
products through amazing innovations.
The Role
- 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 making sure the parts meet all the durability
requirements
- Able to learn and use different CAE software tools (nCode Design Life, ANSA,
MetaPost, OptiStruct, Hyperworks CAE products, ADAMS etc).
- Test and benchmark new analysis tools and techniques. Participate in new CAE
method development, process automation and benchmarking tasks.
Qualifications:
- 5 + years of related experience; bachelor’s or a higher degree 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, HyperMesh, HyperView, MetaPost, nCode, OptiStruct
or similar CAE softwares.
- Strong knowledge of vehicle performance requirements, deriving load cases
from requirements, setting performance targets, developing testing and
validation plans.
Rohit Rasakthla
Recruiter
Ph:
(615) 903-9646
Email:
rohit.rasakthla@harveynash.com
