# Occupant Safety CAE Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Allen Park, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $99,100-166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Occupant Safety CAE Engineer will generate occupant CAE models through multiple development stages. You will also conceptualize, design, engineer, develop, and support the launch of next-generation vehicle platform architectures for electric vehicles.

You will use your skills in collaboration, systems engineering, FMA/design robustness, CAE, and safety DV efficiency to develop world-class efficient vehicle architectures for frontal, side, rear, pedestrian impact, roof strength, and low-speed damageability.

## Responsibilities

- Work with Advanced Vehicle Crash Safety and Program Design teams to develop occupant CAE models in LS-Dyna for various crash modes.

- Collaborate with responsible D&Rs and associated component suppliers to ensure component CAE models are properly correlated and/or reasonable initial assumptions are being made.

- Conduct DOE/DFSS studies by utilizing optimization tools to meet performance requirements within the constraints of conflicting attributes such as cost and mass.

- Support quick concept development of new and emerging ideas.

- Assess the system-level occupant performance for all relevant impact configurations.

- Optimize the performance of the relevant components needed to meet occupant performance targets (airbags, seat belts, steering column, seats, instrument panel, interior trim, etc.).

- Collaborate with the safety structures team in case structural performance of the BIW does not allow meeting occupant performance targets.

- Support the creation of standard work procedures for delivering quality models and simulation results.

- Work in a cross-functional environment to identify and overcome technical challenges and meet requirements.

- Participate in design reviews and present design concepts. Make recommendations to improve and refine designs.

- Support the delivery of the occupant safety attribute with high-quality CAE models during all program phases all the way through Start-of-Production.

## Qualifications

- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- Strong engineering mechanics fundamentals.

- Highly motivated and creative.

- Strong technical skills and expertise in safety and simulation, coupled with a 1st principles approach to problem-solving.

- 5+ years of experience in occupant safety CAE.

- 5+ years of experience in designing and launching new safety systems from concept to production.

- Knowledge of global passive safety public domain and regulatory requirements.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care, and more.

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more.

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.

- Tuition assistance.

- Established and active employee resource groups.

- Paid time off for individual and team community service.

- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day.

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- CAE
- LS-Dyna
- DOE/DFSS
- optimization tools

### Nice to have
- non-linear finite element analysis
- correlation capability
- program experience in analysis and testing

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