CAE Automation Engineer — AI-Driven CAE Workflows

LER TechForce, LLC.; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Job summary

LER TechForce is seeking a CAE Automation Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer to support automotive and industrial clients. The role focuses on mapping end-to-end CAE workflows, automating pre-processing, meshing and design exploration using Python-based pipelines and the Neural Concept platform.

On-site deployment spans the Midwest (Detroit area) and West Coast (Bay Area), with direct collaboration with customer engineering teams and ongoing knowledge transfer to client staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace or computational engineering, plus 3+ years of relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Map customers' end-to-end CAE workflows, from CAD and pre-processing through simulation, post-processing and design review.
• Create agent skills for orchestration of downstream CAE tools such as HyperMesh and ANSA, automating pre-processing, meshing and setup tasks.
• Define and configure engineering workflows using Design Copilot on the Neural Concept platform.
• Integrate workflows with customer tools (CAD, CAE solvers, PLM, HPC or cloud environments).
• Build Python pipelines that connect each step of the workflow, including preparing simulation data where predictive models are part of the chain.
• Set up design exploration and optimization loops within the workflow, alongside existing CAE tools.
• Validate workflow outputs against simulation and test data, and communicate results and limits clearly.
• Train customer engineers so they can run and extend workflows independently.
• Feed field insights back to Neural Concept product and engineering teams.
• Produce technical documentation, progress reports and results presentations for customers.

Skills

Python scripting

CAE automation

HyperMesh

ANSA

Design Copilot

CAD

PLM

Git

OpenFOAM

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace or computational engineering

Tools

HyperMesh

ANSA

Ansys Fluent/Mechanical

STAR-CCM+

Abaqus

LS-DYNA

OpenFOAM

ParaView

Job description

LER TechForce is seeking a CAE Automation Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer to support automotive and industrial clients. The role focuses on mapping end-to-end CAE workflows, automating pre-processing, meshing and design exploration using Python-based pipelines and the Neural Concept platform.

On-site deployment spans the Midwest (Detroit area) and West Coast (Bay Area), with direct collaboration with customer engineering teams and ongoing knowledge transfer to client staff.