Sr. CAE Durability Engineer

Slate AutoTroy, MI
Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for performing durability, strength and stiffness simulations to develop and optimize EV body, chassis, and closures structure; work with CAE tools to lead and guide the design; responsible for assessing performance in durability, strength, and stiffness of a vehicle structure using nCode, DesignLife, and OptiStruct; use pre-processing tools like ANSA and HyperMesh to create and debug the full vehicle durability model, as well as use nCode and HyperWorks to post-process the durability and stiffness simulation results; understand the problem by digging into and analyzing the results; find an optimized solution by performing several full vehicle durability simulation iterations, and suggest recommendations for improving the design; utilize structural stiffness, stress-strain analysis, NVH evaluation, impact analysis, fatigue durability assessment, Nastran, Abaqus, HyperMesh, HyperView, and nCode to perform duties; involved in component and vehicle testing, and correlate CAE results with test data; responsible for applying advanced methods like DOE and DFSS to optimize the design; create reports to present the results of the simulations and the improvements achieved; and communicate with the design team, manufacturing team, and suppliers to achieve the desired vehicle performance.

Requirements

  • Master’s Degree in Automotive Engineering Technology, Electronic Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or in a related field of study (will accept equivalent foreign degree).
  • Two (2) years in the position above, as an Advanced Durability Engineer, as a CAD Engineer, as a CAE Engineer, as a Design Engineer, as a Product Engineer, as a Reliability Engineer, or in a related occupation.
  • Two (2) years’ use of all the following: structural stiffness, stress-strain analysis, NVH evaluation, impact analysis, fatigue durability durability assessment, Nastran, Abaqus, HyperMesh, HyperView, and nCode.
  • Any suitable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Responsibilities

  • Performing durability, strength and stiffness simulations to develop and optimize EV body, chassis, and closures structure.
  • Working with CAE tools to lead and guide the design.
  • Assessing performance in durability, strength, and stiffness of a vehicle structure using nCode, DesignLife, and OptiStruct.
  • Using pre-processing tools like ANSA and HyperMesh to create and debug the full vehicle durability model.
  • Using nCode and HyperWorks to post-process the durability and stiffness simulation results.
  • Understanding problems by analyzing simulation results.
  • Finding optimized solutions by performing full vehicle durability simulation iterations and suggesting design improvements.
  • Utilizing structural stiffness, stress-strain analysis, NVH evaluation, impact analysis, fatigue durability assessment, Nastran, Abaqus, HyperMesh, HyperView, and nCode.
  • Involving in component and vehicle testing, and correlating CAE results with test data.
  • Applying advanced methods like DOE and DFSS to optimize the design.
  • Creating reports to present simulation results and achieved improvements.
  • Communicating with design, manufacturing teams, and suppliers to achieve desired vehicle performance.
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