Senior Durability & NVH CAE Lead

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group seeks a Technical Specialist Durability, NVH to lead a high-performance CAE team in Irvine, CA. The role emphasizes plan-ning, delivering, and optimizing NVH and durability analyses for automotive programs.

Responsibilities include technical leadership, training, client interfacing, and driving project profitability while expanding CAE scope and value-added services.

Qualifications

• 12 to 20+ years, preferably in automotive applications.
• Proficient in CAE pre- and post-processors (ANSA/Nastran/Optistruct/Abaqus/LS-DYNA).
• Experience in full vehicle trim level analyses and sub-system modal analyses.
• Knowledge of BIW/closures/ full-vehicle counter measures and design suggestions.
• Strong optimization knowledge and methods.
• Experience in CAE-based correlation with vehicle targets and refinements.
• Experience in at least one complete vehicle development cycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Durability, NVH team under CAE regional head/ SME.
• Maximise project team utilization and maximize contribution margins.
• Provide domain-specific training to engineers and mentor team leads.
• Interface with customers for day-to-day operations and technical discussions.
• Develop and transfer best practices, templates, and SOPs for NVH/Durability.
• Support bid phases with inputs, effort estimates, and risk identification.

Skills

NVH

Durability

CAE analysis

Team leadership

Education

BE/B.Tech in Mechanical/Automobile Engineering

MTech (preferred)

Tools

ANSA

Nastran

Optistruct

Abaqus

LS-DYNA

Job description

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group seeks a Technical Specialist Durability, NVH to lead a high-performance CAE team in Irvine, CA. The role emphasizes plan-ning, delivering, and optimizing NVH and durability analyses for automotive programs.

Responsibilities include technical leadership, training, client interfacing, and driving project profitability while expanding CAE scope and value-added services.