ALTEN Technology USA
ADAS Performance Specialist - Ride Comfort
Chelsea, Michigan, United States · Contract
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About the role
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Responsibilities
- The overall objective is to minimize vehicle/suspension sensitivity to variation in forces induced by road surfaces, assembly build variation, vehicular architecture, and/or wear.
- Responsible for quality testing activities throughout all Program development phases; from up-front target setting and design definition, through in-vehicle testing on prototype, and then pre-production (pilot).
- Ensure that critical components have appropriate targets/specifications to minimize sensitivity to brake rotor wear (judder), tire/wheel imbalance, vehicle lead/drift/pull, steering wander, torque steer, and vehicle shake (ride).
- Performance optimization for all variants of a vehicle architecture, including formulation of design recommendations.
Nice to have
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Equivalent from an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited university.
- Driving vehicles on CPG, Dynamics assessment, familiar chassis and Dynamics components, Validation vehicles
- Experience with processes and simulation techniques associated with suspension/steering/brake system kinematics/compliance/vibration studies,
- vehicle ride/handling assessments, component structural analysis, and optimization.
- Experience with associated simulation tools: ADAMS/Car, Altair Motionview, Opti-struct, NASTRAN, AMEsim, CARsim, I-Sight, Matlab, Simulink, VI-Car realtime.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to coordinate activities with the extended team.
Skills
- Experience with driving simulator studies and associated preparation, validation, and loading of CAE/virtual models.
- Ability to extract component detail from NX, Teamcenter and CoDeP
- Demonstrated understanding of vehicle dynamics theory and application
- Experience with Suspension and Steering system kinematics and compliance as well as full vehicle ride and handling.
- Vehicle ride, steering and handling evaluation experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to coordinate activities with other department / functions
- Proficient use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
- Organized, self-motivated, work as required to support projects.
- Excellent problem-solving skills
Benefits
- We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life-from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles.
- With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
- When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits.
Company info
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
- As part of the global ALTEN Group-57,000+ engineers in 30 countries-we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
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