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.
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.
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. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Job 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 properties, and then pre-production (pilot) properties.
- 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). This will be accomplished through a combination of simulation, objective testing, and subjective evaluation methods
- Responsible for in-vehicle development of the critical components to meet the vehicle’s overall ride, steering, handling, and tire performance objectives.
- Requires specialized driving skills for subjective ride, steering, routine handling and limit handling evaluations.
- Responsible for the leadership of all CAE/virtual analysis activity associated with steering/suspension hard-point development; steering/suspension component stiffness /damping specification; and ride/handling
- Performance optimization for all variants of a vehicle architecture, including formulation of design recommendations.
- Analysis/optimization of suspension/steering sub-system kinematics and compliance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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 in chassis design/development and/or vehicle dynamics engineering experience.
- Solid understanding of system/component design/development processes.
- 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.
- Experience with driving simulator studies and associated preparation, validation, and loading of CAE/virtual models.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to coordinate activities with the extended team.
- Familiarity with Design Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (Design Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (DFMEA) and Design Verification Plan & Report (DVP&R) structure.
- Formal training in Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methods.
- 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
- Valid driver's license is required as well as a clean driving record - will be required to drive company vehicles.
- 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
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. 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.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent from an ABET-accredited university
- Experience in chassis design, development, or vehicle dynamics engineering
- Understanding of system and component design and development processes
- Experience with suspension, steering, and brake system kinematics, compliance, vibration studies, ride and handling assessments, structural analysis, and optimization
- Experience using ADAMS/Car, Altair MotionView, OptiStruct, NASTRAN, AMESim, CarSim, iSIGHT, MATLAB, Simulink, or VI-Car RealTime
- Experience with driving simulator studies and preparation, validation, and loading of CAE or virtual models
- Understanding of vehicle dynamics theory and application
- Experience evaluating vehicle ride, steering, and handling
- Familiarity with DFMEA and DVP&R structures
- Formal training in Design for Six Sigma methods
- Ability to extract component details from NX, Teamcenter, and CoDeP
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Excellent verbal and written communication and cross-functional coordination skills
- Strong problem-solving, organization, and self-motivation skills
- Valid driver's license and clean driving record; ability to drive company vehicles
What We Do
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company that provides innovative solutions for engineering, IT, and product development projects across the product life cycle. For decades, ALTEN Technology USA has been helping clients develop products that are changing the world, whether by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set new standards of care or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. The company provides support across industries including aerospace, defense, MedTech and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, energy and environment, rail, and more.
Why Work With Us
Potential clients in the industries we serve, Professionals in the Industries, and Potential employees within New Product Development, Engineering Services, Sustaining Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Embedded Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering and IT, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
