Mechanical Design Engineer

Astemo Ltd.; Greenfield (IN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Astemo America seeks a mechanical/electronic controls engineer to support technology development for inverter/power control units, under the Engineering Manager. Translate customer requirements into robust inverter designs with a global team, including Japanese and US design groups.

The role follows a hybrid work plan (2-3 days on-site). You will contribute to design, validation, and production launches across OEMs, suppliers, and Astemo Japan.

Qualifications

• BSME degree required.
• 5+ years of automotive powertrain design experience.
• Experience with 3-D CAD creation and 2-D drawings.
• Experience with Mechanical CAE (thermal, structural, etc.).
• Understanding of electrified vehicle systems.
• Experience interfacing with customers or suppliers.
• Strong technical problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
• Experience managing projects from concept through execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead and/or support technology development activities for new xEV inverter business in Astemo Americas.
• Plan and manage activities for multiple projects to meet goals within a timeframe.
• Receive, evaluate, and utilize customer requirements for optimum inverter design.
• Facilitate technical communication between OEM customers and design teams, manufacturing sites, and suppliers.
• Participate in design improvements, validation, and production launch activities for xEV inverters.
• Create and oversee technical specifications as needed for product design.
• Provide on-site support to manufacturing sites during sample and mass production.
• Support pricing, quoting, and cost investigation activities.

Skills

Powertrain design (inverters)

3D CAD (CATIA)

Mechanical CAE (thermal/structural)

Electrified vehicle systems

Customer interaction

Project management

Problem solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CATIA

Job description

In this role, under the supervision of the Engineering Manager, you'll support technology development for mechanical electronic controllers at Astemo America. You'll be responsible for understanding customer system requirements and then working with a global engineering team to design/develop an inverter/power control unit to meet customer needs. This role work plan is hybrid structure (2-3 days on-site depending on public health situation).

About the Role

In this role, under the supervision of the Engineering Manager, you'll support technology development for mechanical electronic controllers at Astemo America. You'll be responsible for understanding customer system requirements and then working with a global engineering team to design/develop an inverter/power control unit to meet customer needs. This role work plan is hybrid structure (2-3 days on-site depending on public health situation).

Responsibilities

• Lead and/or support technology development activities for new xEV Inverter business in Astemo Americas.
• Plans and manage activities for multiple projects to ensure goals or objectives are accomplished within a prescribed timeframe.
• Receive, evaluate, and utilize customer engineering requirements and work with global team to provide optimum inverter design for each application.
• Facilitate accurate & timely inverter program technical communication between OEM customers to the US / Japan design teams, Astemo manufacturing sites, and suppliers.
• Participate with Astemo US & Japan Design Engineering organizations in the original design / existing design improvements / performance validation / production launch activities of xEV inverters for various automotive powertrain products applications.
• Create and/or oversee other technical specifications as needed for product design.
• Provide as needed on-site support to the internal and external inverter manufacturing sites for various engineering duties during sample and mass production timing.
• Support various types of product pricing, quoting, and cost investigation activities.
• Prepare various types of technical data / information documents using industry standard PC based software programs (i.e.: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, CAD, CAE, etc.).
• Research and develop state-of-the-art engineering design solutions and manufacturing technologies used in automotive inverters.
• Support product validation testing, prototype build and test, and other engineering deliverables in the development phase of product life cycle.

Qualifications

• Education: Possess at minimum a BSME.

Required Skills

• Minimum 5 years practical work experience designing automotive powertrain components (drive Inverters preferred).
• Possess experience with 3-D CAD creation and 2-D drawing creation.
• Possess experience with Mechanical CAE (thermal, structural, etc).
• Understanding of electrified vehicle system and integration.
• Experience interfacing with customers and/or suppliers to explain technical documents/drawings/information.
• High level technical problem-solving skills.
• High level interpersonal skills to collaborate internally and externally.
• Experience managing projects from concept through execution.

Preferred Skills

• Possess a MSME.
• 7 yrs. of practical experience and demonstrated accomplishments developing automotive inverters.
• Highly Proficient with CATIA 3-D CAD creation and 2-D drawing creation.
• Experience with quotation activities (BOM estimation, etc) for new products.
• Experience with tolerance stack-ups, GD&T, DFMEA, DRBFM, and DFSS.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects from concept through execution.
• Fluent in both the English and Japanese languages.

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