DRE - Mechatronics Engineer (Wipers & Washers)

ALTEN Technology•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 Design Release will be responsible for the engineering, design, development, timing and validation of wipers and washing systems components (e.g. wiper modules, washer bottles, hoses and nozzles). This will include analyzing the design to ensure it meets requirements and working with the extended vehicle team for production implementation and competitive benchmarking. The Body Exterior Vision Component Engineer will execute component standardization and reuse, DVP, best practices and lessons learned and will maintain functional objectives, DFMEA's, DVPR's and standards. Engineer needs to support meeting throughout NA work hours and work closely with local engineering teams, Architecture/Vehicle Concepts, program science teams & PDO with iterative models to align with all packaging, functional objectives and system requirements.

Requirements

Minimum of a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace or Materials Engineering from an ABET accredited university
Self-starter with strong leadership, communication skills and demonstrated problem-solving ability
Proficient in MS-Office applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook)

Nice To Haves

Experience in body exterior systems and wipers systems
Experience with Design Verification Plan & Report (DVP&R)
Knowledgeable in NX and TC release experience
Body systems in-plant launch experience
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) green / black-belt
Shainin/ Kepner-Tregoe reactive problem solving
Experience with Design Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (DFMEA)

Responsibilities

Engineering, design, development, timing and validation of wipers and washing systems components (e.g. wiper modules, washer bottles, hoses and nozzles).
Analyzing the design to ensure it meets requirements.
Working with the extended vehicle team for production implementation and competitive benchmarking.
Executing component standardization and reuse, DVP, best practices and lessons learned.
Maintaining functional objectives, DFMEA's, DVPR's and standards.
Supporting meetings throughout NA work hours.
Working closely with local engineering teams, Architecture/Vehicle Concepts, program science teams & PDO with iterative models to align with all packaging, functional objectives and system requirements.