Senior Occupant Safety CAE Engineer (LS-Dyna)

TOOGANN TECHNOLOGIES; Troy (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Slate is seeking a Sr. Occupant Safety Engineer to develop and tune CAE models for occupant protection across frontal and side impacts.

You will work with airbags, seat belts, instrument panels, and interior components to optimize energy absorption and ensure correlation with test data and North American safety regulations. You will collaborate with DREs, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to align CAE modeling with system performance targets, supporting tests and production readiness

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent required.
• 8–10 years relevant experience in occupant safety or CAE modeling.
• Proficient with LS-Dyna and related pre/post-processing tools.
• Knowledge of US safety protocol landscape (FMVSS-208/214, US-NCAP, IIHS).

Responsibilities

• Develop CAE occupant models in LS-Dyna for frontal and side impact.
• Coordinate with DREs and suppliers to ensure proper model correlation.
• Integrate interior components CAE models into system models with restraint alignment.
• Assess system level occupant performance for relevant configurations.
• Optimize components to meet occupant performance targets (airbags, belts, panels).
• Collaborate with safety structures team if BIW limits target achievement.
• Work with cross-functional teams to address performance constraints.
• Coordinate with Testing Team to align physical tests with CAE assumptions.
• Support occupant safety delivery through all program phases to Start-of-Production.

Skills

LS-Dyna modeling proficiency

Interpreting safety standards

Collaboration with DREs and suppliers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Automotive Engineering, Biomechanics or equivalent

Tools

LS-Dyna

Ansa/Meta

Hyperworks

LS-PrePost

Humanetics CAE dummy model pre/post-processing

Job description

Slate is seeking a Sr. Occupant Safety Engineer to develop and tune CAE models for occupant protection across frontal and side impacts.

You will work with airbags, seat belts, instrument panels, and interior components to optimize energy absorption and ensure correlation with test data and North American safety regulations. You will collaborate with DREs, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to align CAE modeling with system performance targets, supporting tests and production readiness