Occupant Safety CAE Engineer

In this position, you will generate occupant CAE models through multiple stages of development and conceptualize, design, engineer, develop, and support the launch of next-generation vehicle platform architectures for electric vehicles.

Your skills in collaboration, systems engineering, FMA/design robustness, CAE, and safety DV efficiency will be used 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.
• Be a part of the vision of engineering excellence and a source of knowledge.
• 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.