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.
Position Description:
- The Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Engineer is responsible for benchmarking and concept evaluation for chassis and suspension systems for future vehicle programs.
It is integral to have strong knowledge of suspension and chassis architecture and components, and strong understanding of cause and effect. Responsibilities include target setting, tire specification, CoG calculations, hard point definition and more leveraging subjective vehicle assessments, objective test data analysis and vehicle dynamics principles. Hands-on and driving, physical testing, modeling and simulation experience is all valuable in this role.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of a Bachelor of Science Engineering Degree from an ABET accredited university or equivalent
- Experience in automotive engineering product development
- Suspension architecture knowledge and development experience
- Vehicle Ride and Handling - Tuning or Development Experience
- Target Setting Experience for Ride and Handling
- K&C Experience
- Knowledge of Modal Alignment and NVH Fundamentals
- Proactive and Reactive problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Proficient use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
- Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience from cross functional interaction
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master of Science Engineering Degree from an ABET accredited university
- Simulation Experience in ADAMS or similar MBD software
- Racing experience/background
- Teamcenter experience
ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.
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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.
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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.
