Senior Validation & Simulation Integration Engineer

Cummins•Columbus, IN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a talented Senior Val-Sim Engineer to join our Cummins Inc. team in Columbus, IN. In this role, you will make an impact by verifying and validating the functionality of Cummins’ products across a wide range of customer requirements, applications, and environments. You will plan, track, and evaluate results from analyses and functional tests to assess product risk and performance, driving quality decisions and proactively resolving product issues. You will also obtain input from stakeholders to define technical requirements and deliver an optimized verification plan. You will make decisions impacting product performance, reliability, and durability, investigating and addressing potential component concerns, understanding causal mechanisms, recommending actions, and owning problem resolution. Additionally, you will apply and improve processes such as technical requirements, iDFMEA, Engineering Standard Work (ESW), DVP&R, test planning, and problem-solving using tools like Integrity, Microsoft Power BI, and McParts. You will own problem resolution for moderately complex components, products, systems, subsystems, or services, with increasing technical complexity and ambiguity as you gain experience. You will execute established work processes and systems while developing technology or product knowledge and engaging in system and process improvement. While involving minimal direct management of people, you may coordinate and direct work amongst technicians and/or temporary student employees. You will contribute effectively to team goals, exhibit influence within your work group, and continue to develop proficiency in critical competency areas. This role is responsible for leading cross-functional project work as a part of the CES (Cummins Emissions Solutions) SBPD (Simulation Based Product Development) Virtual Engineering and Development Efficiency team. This team builds capability, matures methods, and creates virtual evidence to address aftertreatment product requirements, risks, and failure modes.

Requirements

College, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Engineering or appropriate STEM field is required.
Entry level/Early career professional.
Knowledge of MS Office tools is also preferred.

Nice To Haves

Post-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may be required for select roles.
This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Relevant experience working in either a temporary student employment environment (intern, co-op, or other extracurricular team activities) or as an early career professional in a relevant technical discipline area.
Prior experience in a Product Validation or Simulation Analyst role preferred.
Project Management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Product Test Integration and Optimization - Develops a physics-based understanding of customer duty cycles via damage modeling, using real world collected data representative of the full range of customer usage; compares analytical and experimental results and resolves differences to maintain calibrated analytical models; generates experimental testing plans that deliver optimal analysis and test coverage.
Product Failure Mode Avoidance - Mitigates potential product failure modes, by identifying interfaces, functions, functional requirements, interactions, control factors, noise factors, and prioritized potential failure modes and potential failure causes for the system of interest to effectively and efficiently improve the reliability of Cummins’ products.
Product Interface Management and Integration - Identifies and analyzes the interfaces and interactions across system boundaries by specifying the requirements and limits to ensure that the product meets requirements; controls the interactions across the system element boundaries by making sure that they remain within specified limits; integrates system elements by creating an integration plan, including identification of method and timing for each activity to make it easier to find, isolate, diagnose, and correct.
Product Problem Solving - Solves product problems using a process that protects the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based solutions; and identifies the systemic root causes and recommended actions to prevent problem reoccurrence.
Product Verification and Validation Management - Develops product systems validation plans from a variety of inputs to identify failure modes, while managing product risk and relative priority; negotiates product requirements against capability to guide project scope; evaluates analytical, simulation and physical test results to verify product capability and validate requirements; assesses legacy versus proposed system solution capabilities and produces recommendations with technical documentation to support product decisions.
System Requirements Engineering - Uses appropriate methods and tools to translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements to which designs are developed; establishes acceptance criteria for the system of interest through analysis, allocation and negotiation; tracks the status of requirements throughout the system lifecycle; assesses the impact of changes to system requirements on project scope, schedule, and resources; creates and maintains information linkages to related artifacts.
Technical Function Processes and Tools - Execute, improve, train, coach and/or manage the Technical processes and tools including standards and best practices that enables knowledge to be re-used and functional deliverables to be met in a quality and productive manner.
Collaborate - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
Communicate effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
Self-development - Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
Applies Principles of Statistical Methods - Analyze technical data using descriptive statistics, probability distributions, graphical analysis, and statistical inference (population and sample, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing); models relationships between response and independent variables using analysis of variance, regression, and design of experiments to make rigorous, data-based decisions.
Systems Thinking - Define the system of interest by drawing the boundaries, identifying its context within its environment, its interfaces, and that it has a lifecycle to aid in planning the problem statement, scope and deliverables ; analyzes linkages and interactions between elements that comprise the system of interest by using appropriate methods, models and integration of outcomes to understand the system, predict its behavior and devise modifications to it in order to produce the desired effects.
Technical Documentation - Document information based on knowledge gained as part of technical function activities; communicates to stakeholders with the goal of enabling improved technical productivity and effective knowledge transfer to others who were not originally part of the initial learning.
Product Development Execution, Monitoring and Control - Plan, schedule, coordinate and execute the activities involved in developing a product to a respectively aligned hierarchy of requirements and technical profiles; monitors and communicates across functional boundaries to meet project resource and quality expectations; ensures product capability meets or exceeds expectations and takes mitigating actions when project risks are higher than expected; understands the full product life cycle process and stakeholders.
Lead VM (Verification Method) and FLAG (Feedback Loop Assessment Group) project work
Identify and resolve simulation and test discrepancies following the FLAG 7-step process
Identify simulation and test capability gaps and improve methods, standards, and tools to improve failure mode coverage
Integrate improvement efforts from VM projects into global product development programs to plan simulation and test well together
Increase product development efficiency and reduce costs
Develop AI capabilities and implement them into the simulation and test integration process
Lead AT (Aftertreatment) System Model project work
Develop model requirements in Windchill RV&S