Design Release Engineer, Interior Door Trim

The role

The Design Release Engineer will develop, design, lead, release, and launch interior Door Trim components on premium vehicles. This role involves working with cross-functional teams and suppliers to ensure technical excellence and meeting homologation requirements.

What you will do

• Develop, design lead, release and launch interior Door Trim components on premium vehicles
• Create Interior Door Trim with luxury, craftsmanship, performance, safety, packaging, ergonomics, and functionality
• Work within a cross-functional marketing, design, and vehicle engineering team
• Collaborate with Interior trim suppliers to ensure technical excellence and on time delivery
• Employ and develop effective tools and an innovative approach to supporting the development
• Interface with Crash Safety team to ensure the design is meeting with the homologation requirements
• Lead the interface between supplier and Validation team to run DVPV that meets targets

Required qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering or in a relevant discipline
• Fluent English including technical engineering terminology
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience as a detail-oriented Interior Components and Systems development lead (for one or more: IP, Center Console, Door Trim)
• Knowledge and understanding of automotive Interior Components and Systems industry benchmark, trends and supplier competencies
• Experience creating/improving/establishing technical product specifications and timelines to achieve an accelerated development cycle towards SOP
• Experienced in using CAD to create 2D/3D concept drawings, Interior Components and Systems, packaging layouts and DFM studies
• Vehicle and product launch experience
• Proven experience in interior process, such as wrapping, injection molding, painting, compression molding and other state of the art manufacturing processes
• Strong competency in polymers for the design of Door Trim interior components, DFM, and GD&T
• Experience in mold flow simulations

Nice to have

• CATIA V5/V6 preferred
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to achieve success in a fast-paced startup environment
• One full program cycle experience from concept to production launch in automotive Interior Components and Systems
• A strong desire to create the very best product, working as an integral part of a very capable team
• A practical hands-on approach to complement the theoretical
• Exceptional technical abilities paired with excellent communication skills
• Experienced in modal analysis, finite element method analysis and computer fluid dynamics
• Ability to work on a cross-functional working team of different cultures and nationalities
• Ideally a second language of Spanish, German or Chinese

Benefits

• mentorship
• career growth opportunities
• comprehensive benefits

Before you apply

• All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire

About the company

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company with 3,000+ experts across North America. It is part of the global ALTEN Group which has 57,000+ engineers in 30 countries.