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High Voltage (HV) Safety Subsystem Engineer

Job Summary:

Our client in Auburn Hills, MI is looking for a High Voltage (HV) Safety Subsystem Engineer. This is a contract position.

What You Will Do:

The High Voltage Safety Integration Engineer will be responsible for design crash avoidance packaging to ensure the vehicle is compliant to vehicle safety regulations

Engineer to review vehicle tree drawings, supplier CAE analysis results and virtual engineering crash simulation results iteratively for all crash modes. Provide feedback for design robustness. Track and convey issues discovered, update open issues list real time. Maintain the product book for all electrified programs for safety and compliance items. Document best practices will be updated for Company’s internal continuous improvement.

Engineer in this position shall provide required technical assessment to management and the vehicle teams to assure successful and timely implementation of the safety requirements. Maintain the score card for management review. Facilitate creation of safety procedures, such as first responder’s guide, power up and power procedures, service procedures. Engineer is required to be familiar with safety regulations, safety feature implementation, packaging constraints and vehicle level CAD drawings. Work with powertrain Center of Excellence team and HV safety subsystem team to ensure best practice design features and processes are implemented for manufacturing, assembly, reliability and compliance.

Engineer in this position shall also create vehicle safety procedure, such as power up and power down procedure, First Responder’s Guide, Rescue sheet for each vehicle build each program. It is required that the procedure be tested in vehicle and supervise the service community to perform the procedure. Update and optimize as appropriate.

Basics:

• HV Component knowledge and development experience.
• Technical writing, source package, core standards, experience.
• HV safety concept knowledge.
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Material Engineering from an ABET accredited, or ABET equivalent university.
• Minimum of 3 years in product engineering design and development, with emphasis on systems and product development.
• Have knowledge and understanding of development tools and techniques such as Value and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, design for manufacture, design for assembly and design for service.
• Have experience in working with suppliers to ensure that best practices and lesson learned are implemented in the component design & document these for company’s internal continuous improvements.
• Familiar with Geometric dimensioning and tolerance of the drawing.
• Familiar with CAD drawings.
• Familiar with TEAM Center or equivalent system.
• Familiar with basic mechanical engineering fundamentals related to the design, stress analysis, materials etc.
• Have at least basic knowledge of connector engineering.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• Coordinate activities with cross functional teams.
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple tasks.

Preferred:

• Master's degree, as accredited by ABET or ABET equivalent, other graduate level technical degrees in the specific area of relevant specialty expertise.
• Great knowledge of electrification technology, functionality and features on the system level.
• Familiar with FMVSS305 and ECEr100 regulations.
• Review and provide feedback on the component mechanical durability and fatigue analysis to suppliers for design robustness.
• Familiar and have understanding of casting materials, processes especially high pressure die casting, mold flow simulations & validation testing.
• Have experience in working with vehicle level component packaging of power invertors, chargers, motors and motor generator units for mechanical integration between suppliers, FCA packaging and non-technical team members.
• Knowledge on FCA assembly plant operations and overall development process.
• Knowledge of fluid engineering such as coolant flow pressure drop simulations.
• Knowledge of power electronics systems and HEV & BEV experience.

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 areas 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. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.

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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