Senior Design Engineering Consultant – GD&T Expert
Foundation EGI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
Assembly
About the role
- Serve as the primary subject-matter expert on GD&T, tolerance-driven design, and the engineering use cases, requirements, and constraints that inform product development.
- Define and review product workflows and requirements for datum strategies, feature control frames, tolerance types, interfaces, and variation analysis.
- Ensure the software correctly represents ASME Y14.5 and/or ISO GPS standards, including intent and best practices
- Validate that tolerance definitions align with functional requirements, process capability, and inspection methods.
- Write clear product specifications and user-facing documentation, including workflows, examples, and best-practice guidance.
- Translate complex GD&T concepts into language accessible to software engineers, product managers, and customers.
- Validate product behavior using real design data and provide feedback from pilots and customer discussions.
- Support customer and internal discussions as a recognized GD&T and product-definition expert.
Requirements
- 10+ years of recent experience in design engineering in industries such as automotive, construction, capital equipment.
- Deep, hands-on expertise with GD&T standards (ASME Y14.5/ISO GPS)
- Proven experience defining and reviewing:Datum reference frames and functional datums
- Feature control frames for form, orientation, location, and profile
- Complex part interfaces and assembly relationships
- Strong understanding of how GD&T impacts:
- Manufacturing process selection
- Tooling and fixturing strategy
- Inspection methods (CMM, gauges, in-line measurement)
- Experience performing or reviewing: Tolerance stack-upsVariation and robustness analysis
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain GD&T intent and consequences to non-experts.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
GD&Ttolerance-driven designdatum reference framesfeature control framesvariation analysistolerance stack-upsrobustness analysisinspection methodsCMMgauges
Soft skills
written communicationverbal communicationtranslation of complex conceptscustomer supportcollaboration
Certifications
ASME Y14.5ISO GPS