Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Engineer

ALTEN Technology USA•Auburn Hills, MI

About The Position

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, 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. The Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Engineer is responsible for benchmarking and concept evaluation for chassis and suspension systems for future vehicle programs. It is integral to have strong knowledge of suspension and chassis architecture and components, and strong understanding of cause and effect. Responsibilities include target setting, tire specification, CoG calculations, hard point definition and more leveraging subjective vehicle assessments, objective test data analysis and vehicle dynamics principles. Hands-on and driving, physical testing, modeling and simulation experience is all valuable in this role. Strong ability to work cross-functionally is also a must in this position.

Requirements

A minimum of a Bachelor of Science Engineering Degree from an ABET accredited university or equivalent
Experience in automotive engineering product development
Suspension architecture knowledge and development experience
Vehicle Ride and Handling - Tuning or Development Experience
Target Setting Experience for Ride and Handling
K&C Experience
Knowledge of Modal Alignment and NVH Fundamentals
Proactive and Reactive problem-solving skills
Excellent written and verbal skills
Proficient use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Experience from cross functional interaction

Nice To Haves

Master of Science Engineering Degree from an ABET accredited university
Simulation Experience in ADAMS or similar MBD software
Racing experience/background
Teamcenter experience

Responsibilities

Benchmarking and concept evaluation for chassis and suspension systems for future vehicle programs.
Target setting.
Tire specification.
CoG calculations.
Hard point definition.
Leveraging subjective vehicle assessments.
Objective test data analysis.
Vehicle dynamics principles.
Hands-on and driving, physical testing, modeling and simulation.
Work cross-functionally.