Senior Safety Performance Engineer

India; Auburn (AL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

India is seeking a Senior Safety Performance Engineer in Alabama to lead safety development activities for vehicle programs. Key responsibilities include executing test plans, supporting integration processes, and investigating design issues.

The position requires strong technical acumen and excellent communication skills. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in vehicle development and a Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of vehicle development and safety development experience.
• Experience guiding vehicle design using virtual analysis and physical testing.
• Broad knowledge of vehicle regulatory and 3rd party requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety development activities for assigned vehicle programs.
• Support impact script development and design enablement.
• Execute component and full vehicle test plans.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

CATIA

NX

TC

Hypergraph

Job description

The Senior Safety Performance Engineer is responsible for leading the safety development activities for their assigned vehicle programs to ensure all identified safety functional objectives are achieved on time. They are responsible for supporting impact script development, identifying design enablers, executing component and full vehicle test plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Safety development, customer functional objectives target setting, and vehicle level test plan execution; specifically, for the vehicle crash regulatory and third-party ratings
• Support the vehicle integration and validation process by owning safety performance, leading the attribute team, and supporting tech club and vehicle program requests.
• This engineer will influence the designs and investigate vehicle issues to determine the root cause, issue the appropriate documentation for issue resolution, and lead the team where issue crosses multiple vehicle disciplines.
• Be responsible for physical testing and component testing, planning, vehicle build and test prep and execution from concept through launch, including interacting with CAE team for virtual validation.
• This position requires some travel to Chelsea Proving Grounds

The Safety Performance Engineer must possess a strong technical acumen, exceptional communication/organizational skills.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of vehicle development and safety development experience
• Experience guiding vehicle design using virtual analysis, and physical testing
• Broad knowledge of vehicle regulatory and 3rd party requirements
• Experience dealing with cross-functional (Durability, Safety, NVH, Aero) issues
• Strategic thinking, strong leadership, and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to summarize and present work

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strategic thinking, strong leadership, and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to summarize and present work
• Good presentation skills, problem solving ability
• Good knowledge of vehicle structures
• Good knowledge of fundamental physics and structural engineering principles.
• Excellent organizational, communication and teamwork skills
• Experience leading teams and solving complex issue
• Experience dealing with cross-functional issues related to restraints or structures
• Previous laboratory, design release, CAE and hands-on crashworthiness expertise is a plus
• Knowledge of CATIA/NX/TC, Hypergraph, data/film analysis, and advanced simulation techniques