CAE Engineer

L&L Products; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total compensation

Medical insurance

Onsite clinic

401K

Wellness program

Job summary

L&L Products is seeking a CAE Engineer to analyze crashworthiness and structural performance using advanced FE methods. You will create and validate models, interpret results, and recommend design improvements across cross-functional teams. The role requires a Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering background with hands-on experience in FEA tools and CAE preprocessing/postprocessing.

Competitive benefits are offered. Located in the United States, travel may be occasional.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• Working knowledge of FEA fundamentals and structural mechanics.
• Experience with LS-DYNA, OptiStruct, Nastran, or Abaqus.
• Experience with CAE preprocessing and postprocessing tools such as HyperWorks.

Responsibilities

• Perform finite element analyses to evaluate crashworthiness and structural performance.
• Develop FE models including geometry, meshing, material definitions, and boundary conditions.
• Evaluate results, identify limitations, and suggest design improvements.
• Support development of new product concepts and customer opportunities with timely analytical insight.
• Carry out coupon, component, subsystem, and system-level CAE analyses as assigned.
• Apply material models for polymers, composites, metals, and other materials; validate with tests.
• Plan and support physical testing for CAE validation and correlation.
• Document models, inputs, results, conclusions, and recommendations clearly.
• Communicate technical information to engineers, manufacturing, customers, and suppliers.
• Develop and apply improved CAE methods and automation to enhance efficiency.

Skills

FEA fundamentals

LS-DYNA

OptiStruct

Nastran

Abaqus

HyperWorks/HyperMesh

LS-PrePost

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

CAE preprocessing software

Postprocessing tools

Job description

Job Title: CAE Engineer

Date: 2026

Reports to: CAE Manager

Would you like to work for a company where ambitious spirits and creativity thrive? L&L Products offers a culture that grows talent and flourishes with innovation. It is a place where you are encouraged take control of your own professional development by using L&L’s extensive training opportunities to craft solutions to the industry’s hottest problems. Here is where quality of work, product and relationships are a priority.

L&L Products is built on the basic philosophy that good people working together, listening to each other’s ideas with an open mind and everyone wanting to do a little better each day will ensure our success. Our existence is full of wise principles, sacrifices and victories, laughs, and lasting memories that tell exactly who we are. How we came to be the great company, the caring family that we are today.

Duties / Responsibilities of this position:

• - Perform finite element analyses to evaluate products and material solutions for crashworthiness, structural performance, NVH, fatigue, durability, and other relevant structural-performance applications.
• - Develop appropriate finite element models, including geometry idealization, meshing, material definitions, connections, contacts, loads, constraints, and boundary conditions.
• - Evaluate CAE results, identify performance limitations and failure modes, and recommend design changes to improve product performance, mass, cost, manufacturability, and robustness.
• - Support development of new product concepts and customer opportunities by providing timely analytical insight to Product Development, R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Commercial, customers, and suppliers.
• - Perform and support coupon, component, subsystem, and system-level CAE analysis and correlation as appropriate for assigned applications.
• - Apply appropriate material models and modeling techniques for polymers, composites, adhesives, metals, and other materials relevant to company products. Support material characterization and material-model validation in collaboration with senior CAE, R&D, and laboratory personnel.
• - Plan and support physical testing required for CAE validation and correlation. Compare analytical predictions with test results, identify sources of discrepancy, and refine models and assumptions as appropriate.
• - Verify model setup and results, including material definitions, boundary conditions, loads, connections, contacts, mesh quality, units, assumptions, and overall result validity. Participate in peer reviews of CAE work.
• - Document models, inputs, assumptions, results, conclusions, and recommendations in a clear and traceable manner in accordance with company data-management and engineering procedures.
• - Communicate technical information clearly and effectively to engineering, commercial, manufacturing, customer, and supplier stakeholders.
• - Support customer programs and technical activities at customer locations when required, professionally representing the company with customers and suppliers.
• - Develop and apply improved CAE methods, automation, optimization, and data-analysis techniques to improve simulation efficiency, accuracy, repeatability, and engineering decision-making.
• - Work effectively in cross-functional and global teams while independently managing assigned analyses, project commitments, and agreed timing.

Job Requirements:

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Required

• - Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• - Working knowledge of finite element analysis fundamentals, structural mechanics, and engineering problem solving.
• - Experience with one or more commercial FEA solvers such as LS-DYNA, OptiStruct, Nastran, Abaqus, or equivalent.
• - Experience with CAE preprocessing and postprocessing software such as Altair HyperWorks/HyperMesh, LS-PrePost, or equivalent.
• - Ability to interpret FEA results, assess model validity, and relate analytical predictions to physical product behavior.
• - Understanding of automotive crashworthiness, structural performance, NVH, fatigue, durability, and/or related CAE applications.
• - Effective written and verbal technical communication skills.
• - Ability to work effectively both independently and within cross-functional teams.

Preferred

• - 1-3 years of relevant automotive or related CAE/FEA experience. Exceptional candidates with relevant academic, internship, or co-op CAE experience may also be considered.
• - Master's degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
• - Experience with nonlinear FEA and/or explicit dynamics; LS-DYNA experience is preferred for crash applications.
• - Experience with polymers, fiber-reinforced composites, adhesives, or multi-material structures.
• - Experience correlating analytical predictions to coupon, component, subsystem, or system-level physical tests.
• - Knowledge of relevant manufacturing processes such as injection molding, extrusion, pultrusion, stamping, or assembly/joining processes.
• - Experience with Design of Experiments (DOE), optimization, parametric analysis, or sensitivity studies.
• - Experience with Python, Tcl, or other scripting/automation tools for CAE preprocessing, postprocessing, data analysis, workflow automation, or optimization.

Core Competencies:

• - Performance Driven
• - Communication
• - Customer Centric
• - Passion/Values
• - Innovation
• - Safety/Sustainability
• - Collaboration
• - Leadership

Physical Demands Analysis:

• - Continuous sitting at desk
• - Continuous computer work, keyboarding, computer mouse, and computer monitor
• - Occasional standing and walking
• - Rare lifting and carrying up to 30 pounds
• - Rare climbing stairs, bending, and stooping
• - Occasional travel by car or plane.
• - Personal Protective Equipment Requirements (PPE): safety shoes, safety glasses, cut-resistant gloves, hearing protection, and other PPEs required by customers
• - Inside Work – continuous
• - Hot/Cold – occasional
• - Humid/Dry – occasional
• - Dust/Vapor Fumes – occasional
• - Hazardous Machines – occasional
• - Moving Objects – occasional
• - Loud Noise – occasional

Environmental Conditions:

Never = Not Required/Never (0%)

Rare = Seldom/Rare (not daily (1-10%)

Occasional = Minor/Occasional (less than 3 hour)(11-33%)

Frequent = Required/Frequent (34-64%)(for 3-5 hours)

Continuous = Major/Continuous (64-100%)(more than 5 hours)

Benefits

• - Excellent total compensation package
• - 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision
• - Onsite medical clinic
• - Generous 401K contributions
• - Top-notch wellness program with a focus on your total well-being

Equal Opportunity Employer

L&L Products does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. L&L Products will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship.