Senior Design Engineer

About the position

Our client in Irvine, CA is looking for a Senior Design Engineer. This is a contract position.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integration and package a wide variety of lighting components in CAD, such as headlamps, light pipes, functional lamps and signalling lamps for the assigned vehicle lines.
• Work with the assigned design release engineers to optimize the design with special focus on cost, mass and part count.
• Focus ideas on combining and eliminating redundancy and components to streamline designs and manufacturing processes.
• Push the limits to optimize vehicle mechanical architecture, and electrical system integration into the overall product and process, driving engineering tradeoffs to optimize performance, cost, and mass.
• Partner with manufacturing engineering to drive new ideas to minimize assembly time, drive designs that deliver high first pass factory yields, and high field reliability.
• Collaboratively design mechanical components by interfacing with multiple business functions within the company in support of Body Lighting such as Studio, Purchasing and Exteriors.
• Develop and document component mechanical functional requirements based on product requirements for custom, semi-custom, and off-the-shelf components.
• Consider all aspects of integration such as UI/UX, EMC, service, manufacturing build feasibility, thermal, durability, mounting, ensuring correct clearances, NVH, water/dust ingress, component functionality, perceived quality, etc.
• Complete component design verification plans to ensure we deliver low mass, low cost, yet durable parts and modules to the vehicle program.
• Perform other duties as required or assigned within the scope of the position.

Requirements

• Ability to identify optimization opportunities from CAE/testing results.
• At least 10 years industry experience within automotive or other related industries.
• Be a proficient CAD designer, ideally within Catia V5 / V6 / 3DX, though other equivalent systems will be considered.
• Advanced surfacing and solid modelling expertise is preferred, along with strong CAD structure/organizational skills.
• B.S degree (or above), in mechanical engineering, or relevant equivalent experience.
• Excellent knowledge of manufacturing methods such as sheet metal brake-press and stamping, injection molded plastic, cast metals, CNC machining, 3D printing etc.
• Experience designing components and/or systems that include mechanism design, thermal design, PCB integration, plastic molding and class A surface integration.
• Workable knowledge with DFMEA principles and execution.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Benefit Package
• 401(k) with matching contributions
• Paid Time Off
• Employee Discounts
• Free training on all Altair products