Electrical Project Engineer – Substation
Black & Veatch
Cockpit & Trim Computer Aided Engineer, CAE
Ford Motor Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Critically contributes to the development and refinement of advanced Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) methodologies, specifically applied to automotive body interior systems.
- Assist in ensuring structural integrity and performance meet stringent safety and durability standards by modeling, simulating, and analyzing designs.
- Focus on CAE method development and improvement to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and integration of virtual product development outputs.
- Collaborate with peers across different regions and interact directly with design and release teams to bring innovative and safe automotive solutions to market.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering , Aerospace Engineering or a related field.
- 3+ years of CAE analysis experience in automotive cockpit and trim applications.
- Strong theoretical understanding of fundamental CAE principles, including Finite Element Analysis (FEA), structural mechanics, dynamics, and vibration.
- Proven experience in developing and running dynamic non-linear explicit simulations, particularly for automotive body interior systems or similar complex structures.
- Proficiency in CAE pre-processing software, specifically Hypermesh or ANSA, for model generation and setup.
- Expertise in explicit finite element solvers, particularly LS-DYNA and ABAQUS for quasi-static and dynamic non-linear analysis.
- Familiarity with automotive body interior design, materials, and performance requirements (e.g., strength, stiffness, frequency, durability, etc.).
- Experience with optimization tools such as MODE FRONTIER or HEEDS.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.
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Hard skills
Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)Finite Element Analysis (FEA)structural mechanicsdynamicsvibrationdynamic non-linear explicit simulationsmodel generationnon-linear analysisoptimization toolsautomotive cockpit and trim applications
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinginnovation