CAE Engineer/ Analyst - Strength & Durability CAE

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.; India; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. in Gurgaon is seeking a CAE Engineer/Analyst to evaluate vehicle strength and durability. You will perform CAE modelling and multibody analyses for body, chassis and closures, ensuring results drive design improvements.

The role requires 4–7 years of experience and expertise in FEA tools like Hypermesh, Nastran, LS-Dyna, with exposure to fatigue and testing correlations. Join a leading automotive maker and contribute to robust vehicle development.

Qualifications

• BE/BTech (preferably Mechanical) is essential.
• ME/MTech (preferably Mechanical Design) is desirable.
• Experience in vehicle CAE for strength and durability is required.

Responsibilities

• CAE modelling for automotive sub-systems, primarily body, chassis structure and closures.
• Carry out linear and nonlinear strength and durability analyses.
• Interpret results, identify failure modes and propose countermeasures to meet performance criteria.
• Documentation of results and communication with design and testing teams for implementation of countermeasures.
• Interact with testing teams to analyze failures and correlate CAE results with physical testing, improving CAE model.
• Support generation and evaluation of value enhancement proposals.

Skills

Strength of Materials

Machine design

Fatigue

Finite Element Analysis

Automotive Body & Sheet metal design

CAE modeling

Education

BE / BTech

ME / MTech

Tools

Hypermesh

Nastran

LS-Dyna

Hyperview

LS-Pre-Post

FEMFAT

MSC Fatigue

NCode

ADAMS

Optistruct

Mode Frontier

Job description

CAE Engineer/ Analyst - Strength & Durability CAE

Location: Gurgaon

Job Type: Full-time

Experience: 4 - 7 Years

Posted: 19th August, 2026

Background

i) Educational Qualification

• Essential: BE / B Tech (preferably Mechanical)
• Desirable: ME / M Tech (preferably Mechanical Design or equivalent)

ii) Experience

• Minimum: 4 Years
• Maximum: 7 Years

Job Role & Responsibilities

Role: Vehicle Strength & Durability CAE Evaluation

Responsibilities:

• §CAE Modelling – Mesh discretization, Assembly, Constraint & Load setting – for automotive sub-systems, primarily components related to Body & Chassis Structure & Closures.
• §Carry out Strength & Durability analysis – Linear & Non-Linear cases.
• §Interpretation of results, comprehending failure modes and providing directions for countermeasures for meeting performance criteria.
• §Documentation of results and communication with stakeholders – design, testing – for implementation of failure countermeasures.
• §Interact with Testing teams for analyzing failures, correlation of CAE results with physical testing results and making improvements in CAE model
• §Support in generation and evaluation of Value Enhancement proposals.

Competency Requirements

Technical / Functional

• §Strong fundamentals in Strength of Materials, Machine design, Fatigue.
• §Knowledge of Finite Element Analysis and related experience of working in Body Structures & Closures CAE domain.
• §Basic knowledge of Automotive Body & Sheet metal design.
• §Ability to prepare the CAE model in Hypermesh software, prepare input deck and perform analysis in Nastran & LS-Dyna software, perform post-processing in Hyperview & LS Pre-Post.
• §Working exposure in Fatigue evaluation – FEMFAT, MSC Fatigue, NCode- and Multibody software (like ADAMS) will be an added advantage.
• §Basic exposure of Optimization softwares – Optistruct, Mode Frontier.
• §Exposure to physical testing and ability to understand test conditions and its representation in CAE.
• §Ability to suggest countermeasures for performance improvement.