Restraint System Integration and Test Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company that provides solutions for engineering, technology, and product development projects. For decades, we’ve been helping our clients develop products that are changing the world, whether that’s by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set a new standard of care, or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. Our team of more than 600 people works across industries including aerospace, medical devices and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicle, electric vehicles, rail, and more. Our offices across the US have different industry focuses and engage with our clients in different ways, ranging from working on-site at client facilities to performing product development at our delivery centers.
 
ALTEN Group, our parent company, has been a leader in engineering and information technology for more than 30 years. ALTEN Group operates in 30 countries across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and employs more than 36,000 people, 88% of whom are engineers. The company covers the whole development cycle and offers a choice of service levels, from technology consulting to complete project outsourcing.
 
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We are currently seeking a Restraint System Integration and Testing Engineer. Our ideal candidate exhibits a can-do attitude and approaches his or her work with vigor and determination. Candidates will contribute to the growth of a high-performance team, combining their high skills in their respective fields with the company/industry standard to optimize their outcome, maintaining detailed and accessible development history, exposing their Engineering judgements, while acting in a timely manner, possessing the ability to learn quickly and strive for perfection within a fast-paced environment.

The Role:
• Be responsible for the Restraint Sub-system integration and their testing in the vehicle:
o For new development as well as model years variants
o Raise Integration development plans forecast and keep it up-to-date
o Manage Testing from forecast to test report
o Manage test material from forecast to tear down
o Support creation and continued improvement of company specifications with DRE’s
o Persistent usage of personal and company's engineering skills to gain knowledge from each situation. Transfer this knowledge to the team to keep growing personal and company's skills.
o As a team, drive Test Report creation, closure, and submission for approval within 24 hours of test series completion
o Support general operations in the Test Lab (6S, mat’l order, etc.)
o Define and lead continued improvement and calibration activities
o Obtain Lucid certification for, and safely operate a fork-lift
• Work together with the Restraints and Interiors DRE to learn the design and behavior of their individual parts and drive the common development for the sub-system
• Raise or collect tests reports
• For sub-system tests under Lucid responsibility, perform 1st level analysis, feed Restraints test database with test data, reports and fill in the 1st level analysis standard form
• For tests under Tier 1 responsibility, collect the data and report, feed Restraints test database and fill in the 1st level analysis standard form
• Manage root cause analysis with the owners of the components involved in the issue.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree and above in Mechanical Engineering or other related fields
• Some knowledge about the design and engineering of airbags and/or interiors parts, direct experience in automotive OEM or Tier 1 suppliers
• Strong Engineering fundamentals in problem-solving
• The ability to articulate highly technical issues to audiences not in the crash safety field, such as top management, design studio, purchasing team, etc.
• High ethics
• Physical capacity to manipulate interiors parts in and out of test bucks or tests fixtures

Preferred
• Curiosity, thoroughness
• Experience in assy and dis-assy of Automotive interiors parts
• Experience in testing (crash, airbag deployment, seats, IP and/or upper trims)
• Knowledge of CAE analysis and restraint system integration and optimization

Note: Sub-system means the Airbag together with the host component, like PAB and KAB in IP, SAB in seat, CAB in roof rail, etc.

Salary Range: $90,000-110,000

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience 

MANDATORY FOR ALL REMOTE/HYBRID AND/OR CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, MARYLAND, CONNECTICUT, ILLINOIS, MINNESOTA, VERMONT, MASSACHUSETTS, NEVADA, NEW YORK, RHODE ISLAND, WASHINGTON STATE & CINCINNATI, OHIO, JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, TOLEDO, OHIO BASED ROLES. 

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