Automotive CAE / Occupant Safety Engineer with 4–9 years of experience in vehicle crashworthiness and occupant-restraint-system development, with mandatory expertise in PRIMER, ANSA, and LS-DYNA and hands-on OEM experience in occupant simulations at sled and full-vehicle levels.
Key Responsibilities & Tasks
• Independently perform occupant simulations using ATDs and HBMs for frontal and side-impact scenarios, including virtual testing, at sled and vehicle levels. Prepare reports, conduct root-cause analyses, and recommend countermeasure-development directions.
• Actively collaborate with team members and regularly communicate project updates, findings, and lessons learned during daily virtual or in-person meetings. Supervise junior engineers within the assigned team and ensure quality and delivery requirements are met.
• Conduct virtual scorecard assessments of components, subsystems, and full vehicles to support design-release timing and Tooling Kick-Off activities with internal and external stakeholders. Actively participate in design reviews and guide designers on improvements to occupant and restraint-system performance.
Qualifications, Experience and Competency requirements
Preferred Education
• B.E, B.Tech (Mechanical, Automobile), M.E, M.Tech Preferable
Preferred Experience
Essential:
• 4-9 years of automotive CAE experience, with a focus on vehicle crashworthiness and occupant-restraint-system development.
• 1-2 years of foundational hands-on experience in developing and integrating safety FE models at full-vehicle, subsystem, and component levels.
• At least 2 years of OEM experience performing occupant simulations at sled and full-vehicle levels.
• Proficiency in PRIMER, ANSA, and LS-DYNA are mandatory.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including a sound understanding of classical and applied mechanics and the operation of advanced restraint systems such as dual-stage airbags with active vents and seatbelts with load limiters, pretensioners and related technologies.
• Strong logical reasoning to predict, analyze, and troubleshoot complex nonlinear crash events involving occupants.
• Understanding cross-functional performance requirements, with experience developing design proposals, optimizing designs for weight and cost, and collaborating with design engineers to implement proposed solutions.
Desirable:
• Exposure to Human Body Model (HBM) simulations at sled or vehicle level.
• Experience with Linux scripting, Python, Jupyter Notebook, and AI tools.
• Good working knowledge of metals, composite components, and failure analysis.
• OEM experience in at least one vehicle-development program from concept through launch.
Specific skill requirement
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High learning agility, with a curious and inquisitive mindset; a collaborative team player with a positive attitude.
• Strong sense of responsibility and ownership of assigned tasks.
Automotive CAE, Vehicle Crashworthiness, Occupant Restraint System Development, Occupant Simulations, ATD, Human Body Model (HBM), Frontal Impact, Side Impact, Virtual Testing, Sled Simulation, Full-Vehicle Simulation, Safety FE Models, PRIMER, ANSA, LS-DYNA, Classical Mechanics, Applied Mechanics, Airbag Systems, Dual-Stage Airbags, Active Vents, Seatbelts, Load Limiters, Pretensioners, Nonlinear Crash Analysis, Root-Cause Analysis, Virtual Scorecard Assessment, Design Reviews, Countermeasure Development, Design Optimization, Weight Optimization, Cost Optimization, Linux Scripting, Python, Jupyter Notebook, AI Tools, Metals, Composite Components, Failure Analysis, OEM Vehicle Development, Analytical Skills, Problem-Solving Skills, Communication Skills, Presentation Skills