Sr. CAD Engineer

ALTEN Technology USA•Foster City, CA

2d•$115,000 - $120,000

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.

Requirements

CATIA specialist, conversant in generating fully parametric solids (boolean/sketch)
Strong knowledge of plastic or metallic (or both) part design including the various manufacturing processes, able to propose right tech for given application/circumstance
Able to create robust designs including part attachment and datum systems
Able to conduct basic tolerance stack-ups
Understanding of Mechatronics System mechanical integration requirements/Development of PCBA interface
Industrialize Class-A Design Surface data
Generation/modification of drawing content using ASME Y14.5 standard and well versed in GD&T
Able to conduct design reviews with applicable engineer/s
Excellent written and verbal skills
Good understanding of Microsoft office, Google docs, JIRA
Customer focused, able to work flexible hours to support work when needed.

Nice To Haves

Catia V6 preferred
3DX conversant

Responsibilities

Design Changes - CAD model modifications with guidance from part owner
Design Iterations - CAD development and maturation, this will be interactive with the part owner
Clean sheet modeling - Schematics and initial design iterations, this will be interactive with the part owner
Drawing updates / changes - Either closing the loop relative to above CAD work scope prior to checking submission or corrections within the checking process, this work will be with the Part/assy owner and/or the Dimensional team
Drawing preparation / completion - Clean sheet drawing prep, this would optimally be under the Dimensional team’s guidance to ensure minimal corrective actions being required.
Standard model library content generation (dog houses/ribs/in-mould clips/swages,etc) - We will be populating this library, models must be fully parametric and easily modified to suit variable applications.
Assisting the package team in generating CAD for mock-ups, bucks, restriction geometry, criteria, master sections, packaging/black box volumes. - guidance from Package layout/Studio responsible engineer

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