Altair
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Interior Validation Engineer
Job Summary:
Our client in Troy, MI is looking for an Interior Validation Engineer. This is a Contract position.
This position will own all aspects of interior testing and validation for Slate responsible functional requirements from component level to vehicle level. You'll ensure our interior testing meets the highest standards of safety, data integrity, and integration with our interior systems engineering - on budget and on time.
What you get to do:
• Lead the validation activities for Slate Interior program as primary interface to Engineering, out-source test labs, suppliers, DV vehicle fleet, etc.
• Facilitate physical validation activities with Slate and test facilities: Document disposition and drive issue closure to meet program timing
• Obtain timely test vendor quotes for all testing activities, facilitate testing by creating purchase Orders and Test Requests
• Support Slate pursuit/quote team with cost estimates
• Represent Slate at testing Reviews
• Develop, manage and publish DVP&R for specific sub-systems to meet program timing.
• Work effectively in a team environment with a cross-functional team: design engineering, suppliers, CAE, quality, craftsmanship, manufacturing, purchasing
• Develop and maintain validation timing plans
• Establish effective communications (written and verbal) between interior engineering, internal groups and suppliers
• Generate and implement cost savings ideas
• Document test results and issues in Slate Polarion system as required
• Be an integral part of an energetic team that's challenging the status quo of vehicle design.
What you bring to the team:
• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET accredited university or equivalent.
• 3 years of validation engineering / testing experience in the automotive industry.
• Ability to use lab equipment to support internal Interior validation testing.
• Experience in working with suppliers and customers
• Energetic personality: Self-starter with a high passion for success.
• Excellent organization and planning skills.
• Ability to manage and coordinate multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to travel to visit suppliers, test labs and Slate sites; up to 20% domestically / locally.
• Microsoft Office proficiency: Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills.
• High level of integrity and the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment.
• Multiple Vehicle Interior product engineering experience (Instrument panels, door trim, floor consoles, trim, seating, etc.)
How You Will Be Successful: Envision the Future Communicate Honestly and Broadly Seek Technology and Business "First" Embrace Diversity and Take Risks What We Offer:
Competitive Salary Comprehensive Benefit Package 401(k) with matching contributions Paid Time Off Employee Discounts Free training on all Altair products
Why Work with Us:
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.
Interior Validation Engineer
Job Summary:
Our client in Troy, MI is looking for an Interior Validation Engineer. This is a Contract position.
This position will own all aspects of interior testing and validation for Slate responsible functional requirements from component level to vehicle level. You'll ensure our interior testing meets the highest standards of safety, data integrity, and integration with our interior systems engineering - on budget and on time.
What you get to do:
• Lead the validation activities for Slate Interior program as primary interface to Engineering, out-source test labs, suppliers, DV vehicle fleet, etc.
• Facilitate physical validation activities with Slate and test facilities: Document disposition and drive issue closure to meet program timing
• Obtain timely test vendor quotes for all testing activities, facilitate testing by creating purchase Orders and Test Requests
• Support Slate pursuit/quote team with cost estimates
• Represent Slate at testing Reviews
• Develop, manage and publish DVP&R for specific sub-systems to meet program timing.
• Work effectively in a team environment with a cross-functional team: design engineering, suppliers, CAE, quality, craftsmanship, manufacturing, purchasing
• Develop and maintain validation timing plans
• Establish effective communications (written and verbal) between interior engineering, internal groups and suppliers
• Generate and implement cost savings ideas
• Document test results and issues in Slate Polarion system as required
• Be an integral part of an energetic team that's challenging the status quo of vehicle design.
What you bring to the team:
• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET accredited university or equivalent.
• 3 years of validation engineering / testing experience in the automotive industry.
• Ability to use lab equipment to support internal Interior validation testing.
• Experience in working with suppliers and customers
• Energetic personality: Self-starter with a high passion for success.
• Excellent organization and planning skills.
• Ability to manage and coordinate multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to travel to visit suppliers, test labs and Slate sites; up to 20% domestically / locally.
• Microsoft Office proficiency: Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills.
• High level of integrity and the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment.
• Multiple Vehicle Interior product engineering experience (Instrument panels, door trim, floor consoles, trim, seating, etc.)
How You Will Be Successful: Envision the Future Communicate Honestly and Broadly Seek Technology and Business "First" Embrace Diversity and Take Risks What We Offer:
Competitive Salary Comprehensive Benefit Package 401(k) with matching contributions Paid Time Off Employee Discounts Free training on all Altair products
Why Work with Us:
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.