Vehicle Value & Cost Optimization Engineer

Groupe SEGULA Technologies SA; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Groupe SEGULA Technologies SA is seeking a cost and mass optimization engineer to identify and implement VA/VE opportunities across vehicle systems while preserving performance, durability, safety, manufacturability, regulatory compliance, and customer experience.

You will lead cross-functional workshops, benchmark designs and processes, and build business cases detailing costs, tooling, and savings, ensuring on-time releases and realized financial benefits.

Responsibilities

• Lead VA/VE activities across major automotive domains.
• Benchmark competitor designs, materials, features, specifications, manufacturing processes, and supplier solutions.
• Develop fact-based cost, weight, complexity, and commonization opportunities with clear technical rationale.
• Facilitate structured workshops with Engineering, Purchasing, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality, CAE, Validation, and Tier-1 suppliers.
• Assess proposed design changes against performance, fatigue, NVH, corrosion, safety, homologation, serviceability, and warranty requirements.
• Build robust business cases detailing piece cost, tooling, capital investment, validation, timing, implementation risk, and annualized net savings.
• Coordinate feasibility studies, design changes, sourcing inputs, validation plans, and engineering implementation schedules.
• Track opportunity pipeline from ideation through approval, validation, engineering release, and realized savings.
• Support teardown analysis, should-cost modeling, DtV reviews, and lessons-learned documentation.
• Present design recommendations, trade-offs, risk mitigation strategies, and decision requirements to program leadership.

Job description

Groupe SEGULA Technologies SA is seeking a cost and mass optimization engineer to identify and implement VA/VE opportunities across vehicle systems while preserving performance, durability, safety, manufacturability, regulatory compliance, and customer experience.

You will lead cross-functional workshops, benchmark designs and processes, and build business cases detailing costs, tooling, and savings, ensuring on-time releases and realized financial benefits.