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Position Description:
A Road Loads Engineer is responsible for delivering vehicle measurements, design loads and some analytical simulations and to support vehicle design, vehicle verification and durability incident root cause analysis. The position is within the Durability, Road Loads, and CusCor Department, which is part of the Vehicle Engineering organization.
What you'll do...
Understand customers’ requirements and inquiries, and provide clear and concise responses
Set robust design road loads targets for Chassis, Body, P/T mounts, EPE and other functions
Attend cross function attribute meetings and ensure vehicle design changes do not violate targets
Develop recommendations to resolve and prevent full vehicle durability issues
Perform comprehensive road loads comparisons/assessments via signal processing reduction, and document comparison results, conclusions and recommendationsSeats & IP Measurement LeadPlan and deliver all aspects of seats and IP data collection for all programs in support of bldg4 sign-off tests
Lead DV efficiency efforts to improve efficiency of seats and IP data collection/calculationRoad Load MeasurementsDeliver vehicle measurements: instrumentation, data collection, data processing and communication of results
Translate customer requests into measurement requirements: instrumentation, test procedures
Define/Design custom loadcells and transducers including strain gage requirements and calibration techniques
Provide operation instructions to technicians covering instrumentation, data acquisition and test procedures
Lead the development/application of CAN diagnostic tools to troubleshoot measurement/durability issues
Deliver DV efficiency by helping improve/refine measured strategies/methods
Road Load SimulationsPerform strength and endurance load simulations to support vehicle design
Perform time series road load simulations to support vehicle design
Perform Road Load simulations to support powertrain design
Coordinate component testing, and process data to create component models for use in AdamsYou'll have...
Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
5+ years RLDA experience
5+ years with SIEMENS Test Lab and SCADAS hardware experience
5+ years in Electronic Controls, ECU, PCM, Suspension Control, CAN bus, or Control Systems experience
5+ years with CAN & CAN-FD including defining custom gateways for data acquisition and identifying messages/signals critical to vehicle durability performance experienceEven better, you may have...
Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
7+ years RLDA experience
7+ years with SIEMENS Test Lab and SCADAS hardware experience
7+ years in Electronic Controls, ECU, PCM, Suspension Control, CAN bus, or Control Systems experience
7+ years with CAN & CAN-FD including defining custom gateways for data acquisition and identifying messages/signals critical to vehicle durability performance experience
10+ years engineering experience
Experience in full vehicle and sub-system (Chassis & P/T) modeling and simulation
Experience with Signal Processing (statistics, filtering, spectral analysis, level counts, etc.)
Ability to use the following software: MSC ADAMS (A-Car, A-Chassis), MATLAB, nCode
Practical application of various sensors including accelerometers, LVDT, RVDT, String potentiometers etc.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to present/work in group settings
Fundamental knowledge of: Multi-body dynamics, Fatigue/Durability Theory and Modal Analysis
Excellent written and oral communication skills
| • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage |
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| • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more |
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| • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more |
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| • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases |
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| • Established and active employee resource groups |
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| • Paid time off for individual and team community service |
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| • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day |
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| • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time. |
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This position is a salary grade 8.
This position is a range of salary grades
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
