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Engineering Lead - Durability CAE
Job Summary
Our client in Novi, MI is looking for a Engineering Lead - Durability CAE. This is a contract position.
Specializing in developing and validating vehicle durability models to ensure long-term structural integrity and performance under real-world conditions. This role involves using advanced simulation tools to analyze loads, predict fatigue, and work across the full vehicle lifecycle—from concept to production—to optimize the durability of vehicle components and systems.
Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the area of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.
For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com
Ready to go? #ONLYFORWARD
At our core we are explorers; adventures; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and unchartered waters, we dive headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.
Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.
Engineering Lead - Durability CAE
Job Summary
Our client in Novi, MI is looking for a Engineering Lead - Durability CAE. This is a contract position.
Specializing in developing and validating vehicle durability models to ensure long-term structural integrity and performance under real-world conditions. This role involves using advanced simulation tools to analyze loads, predict fatigue, and work across the full vehicle lifecycle—from concept to production—to optimize the durability of vehicle components and systems.
- REQUIRED: Excellent communication skills for customer meetings, supplier meetings and stakeholder meetings to achieve goals.
- Develop detailed FEA models to evaluate vehicle durability, focusing on fatigue life, vibration endurance, and load-bearing capacity for complete vehicle systems under diverse operating conditions.
- Perform road load data analysis to determine component and system damage levels, using this data to inform structural design enhancements and optimize vehicle durability.
- This Statement of Requirements contains confidential and proprietary information that should not be communicated or shared outside the recipient’s response.
- Correlate load data with CAE fatigue predictions, utilizing tools like Ncode and Abaqus to establish accurate cyclic load predictions and simulate real-world operating conditions.
- Configure and validate durability models to accurately predict cyclic loads and correlate these with damage levels experienced in actual road scenarios, ensuring the highest level of predictive accuracy.
- Collaborate with design, materials, and testing teams to identify and implement material and structural improvements that enhance component durability, extending vehicle lifespan and reducing maintenance requirements.
- Use advanced FEA software such as Ncode, Abaqus, Nastran, LS-Dyna for comprehensive structural and fatigue analysis, pinpointing potential weak points and areas for improvement across vehicle systems.
- Optimize complete vehicle durability by assessing structural load paths, material fatigue thresholds, and road load transfer mechanisms for components such as chassis, suspension, body structures, and powertrain mounts.
- Validate simulation models against physical testing data, refining models based on real-world load conditions, including road, terrain, and environmental impacts to accurately replicate in-service conditions.
- Document durability analysis processes and findings, providing detailed reports and actionable insights to support continuous improvement in vehicle durability development programs.
- Develop and implement durability test plans for specific vehicle components and systems, including frame, suspension, body structures, and key load-bearing components, ensuring compliance with industry standards and customer durability requirements.
- Proficiency in CAE durability analysis tools and FEA software, including Ncode, Abaqus, Nastran LS-Dyna, with a focus on complete vehicle applications.
- Strong understanding of materials science, fatigue analysis principles, and the behavior of high-strength materials under cyclic loading.
- Extensive experience in handling and interpreting road load data, with the ability to integrate it into CAE simulations for accurate durability predictions.
- Familiarity with vehicle durability standards, testing protocols
- Envision the Future
- Communicate Honestly and Broadly
- Seek Technology and Business “First”
- Embrace Diversity and Take Risks
- Competitive Salary
- Comprehensive Benefit Package
- 401(k) with matching contributions
- Paid Time Off
- Employee Discounts
- Free training on all Altair products
Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the area of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.
For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com
Ready to go? #ONLYFORWARD
At our core we are explorers; adventures; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and unchartered waters, we dive headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.
Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.
