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Altair Engineering

Senior CAE Durability Engineer - Body

Altair Engineering, Troy, Michigan, United States, 48083


Transforming the Future with Convergence of Simulation and Data

Senior CAE Durability Engineer - Body

Job Summary:

Our client in Troy, MI is looking for a Senior CAE Durability Engineer - Body. This is a Contract position.

What you will do:

The Senior CAE Durability Engineer-Body will be working with CAE tools to lead and guide the design. The Senior CAE Durability Engineer-Body will be responsible for assessing performance in durability and stiffness of body structure using nCode DesignLife and Optistruct. This candidate is using pre-processing tools like ANSA/HYPERMESH to create and debug the full vehicle durability model. This senior engineer will use nCode/HYPERWORKS to post-process the durability and stiffness simulation results. He/she will suggest recommendations for improving the design. This senior engineer can understand the problem by digging into and analyzing the results and is able to find the optimized solution by performing several full vehicle durability simulation iterations. The Senior CAE Durability Engineer-Body involves in component and vehicle testing too and he/she will correlate the CAE results with the test data. The Senior CAE Durability Engineer-Body is responsible for applying advanced methods like DOE/DFSS to optimize the design. This senior engineer will create reports to present the results of the simulations and the achieved improvements. He/she will communicate with the design team, manufacturing team, and suppliers to achieve the desired vehicle performance.

Qualifications:

Basic:

Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering or equivalent from an ABET accredited or equivalent program.

MATLAB/Simulink.

8+ years of experience in performing body structure durability analysis for an OEM.

Experience with using nCode, Optistruct/NASTRAN, ANSA and HYPERWORKS.

Experience with performing Random Vibration analysis.

Experience with planning RLDA and 4-poster tests.

Experience with correlation of CAE and Test results.

Knowledge of optimization tools and techniques using Optistruct.

Knowledge of applying engineering fundamentals in the development.

Ability to work independently from start to end.

Strong oral and verbal communication skills.

Act as a team player and problem solver.

Preferred:

Master’s degree or PHD.

How You Will Be Successful:

Envision the Future

Communicate Honestly and Broadly

Seek Technology and Business “First”

Embrace Diversity and Take Risks

What We Offer:

Competitive Salary

Comprehensive Benefit Package

401(k) with matching contributions

Paid Time Off

Employee Discounts

Free training on all Altair products

Why Work with Us:

Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the area of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future.

Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com

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Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success.

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