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title: Lead Engineer – Body Components CAE
description: At McLaren Automotive, every interior and exterior component contributes to the overall vehicle experience. Whether enhancing stiffness under aerodynamic loads, delivering premium quality, achieving weight targets, or ensuring durability over a vehicle’s lifetime, body components must perform flawlessly while integrating seamlessly into the wider vehicle architecture. We are seeking a Lead Engineer – Body Components CAE to take technical ownership of the virtual development of all interior and exterior body components across McLaren vehicle programmes. This is a hands-on technical role focused on delivering robust, efficient, and attribute-balanced CAE solutions that support right-first-time component and vehicle development. Responsibilities Lead Body Components CAE Delivery: Take technical responsibility for the CAE development and validation of all interior and exterior body components across McLaren vehicle programmes. Integrate Multi-Attribute Requirements: Ensure body component designs meet the requirements of all relevant vehicle attributes, including durability, NVH, passive safety, quality and perceived quality, manufacturing and assembly. Develop Robust CAE Methodologies: Define, maintain, and continuously improve simulation methodologies for body component development, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and correlation with physical testing. Support Right-First-Time Engineering: Use simulation-driven engineering approaches to identify risks early and deliver optimised component designs with minimal late-stage design changes. Apply First Principles & Lean Engineering: Utilise first-principles engineering, analytical calculations, and simplified modelling approaches where appropriate to guide design decisions and maximise CAE efficiency. Lead Correlation & Validation Activities: Support and interpret component and vehicle-level test results, ensuring robust correlation between simulation predictions and physical performance. Collaborate Across Engineering Funct…
date posted: 2026-07-18T08:16:20.436Z
valid through: 2026-10-01T14:01:48.995Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Automotive
skills: CAE
skills: FEA
skills: structural simulation
skills: durability assessment
skills: component optimisation
skills: first-principles engineering
skills: materials science
skills: supplier management
hiring organization: McLaren Automotive
  type: Organization
  founding date: 1985
  number of employees: QuantitativeValue
    value: 1500
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: Woking
    address country: GB
employment type: FULL_TIME