Technical Expert – Seats & Restraints Systems

Job Overview:             

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the occupant protection and safety DNA of VinFast vehicles. As a senior technical expert, the successful candidate will play a critical role in delivering safe, robust, and compliant seat and restraint systems, influencing vehicle safety performance from early CAE development through to production sign‑off.

Experience

• Expert in seat systems and occupant restraint systems, including:
  
• Seats (structure, mechanisms, foams, trim, comfort and durability)
  
• Seatbelts (pretensioners, load limiters, anchorage systems)
  
• Airbags (front, side, curtain, knee, centre airbags)
  
• Deep technical knowledge of airbag and seatbelt system design, integration, and optimisation for occupant protection.
  
• Strong experience guiding development from CAE / simulation phase (airbag deployment, belt force management, dummy interaction) through to physical testing and vehicle-level validation.
  
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex restraint and seat-related issues under high-pressure, time-critical development conditions.
  
• Solid understanding of occupant injury criteria, dummy behaviour, restraint timing, and system interactions.
  
• Experience correlating CAE results with sled and full vehicle crash test data, driving model improvements and design countermeasures.
  
• Strong understanding of how seat and restraint systems interact with BIW, interior trim, and vehicle packaging.
  
• Familiarity with global safety regulations and consumer test requirements (e.g. UNECE, FMVSS, Euro NCAP, US NCAP, IIHS, BNCAP, ASEAN NCAP).
  
• Proven capability to define, review, and enforce design rules, standards, and best practices for seats and restraint systems.
  
• Experience capturing and deploying lessons learned into standards and future vehicle architectures.
  

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority for seats and restraint systems across VinFast vehicle programs within the vehicle quality division
  
• Provide expert guidance from early CAE and concept phases through detailed design, testing, and validation.
  
• Lead and support resolution of all major seat-, airbag-, and seatbelt-related issues, particularly during critical program phases.
  
• Drive root-cause analysis and define robust corrective actions for issues identified during simulation, sled testing, or full vehicle crash tests.
  
• Support optimisation of restraint system timing, load paths, and occupant interaction to meet regulatory and consumer performance targets.
  
• Work closely with Safety CAE, Test, BIW, Interior Trim, Packaging, and Manufacturing teams to deliver fully integrated solutions.
  
• Review and challenge designs, simulations, and test results to ensure robustness, repeatability, and long-term quality.
  
• Define, review, and continuously improve technical standards, design rules, and development processes for seats and restraints.
  
• Provide clear, authoritative technical input to senior leadership on risks, trade-offs, and mitigation strategies.
  

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related discipline.
  
• 15–20+ years of experience in seats, restraint systems, and occupant safety development within industry-leading OEMs or Tier‑1 organisations.
  
• Exceptional depth of technical knowledge combined with strong systems-level understanding.
  
• Ability to lead and influence without direct line management, operating effectively as a senior technical authority.
  
• Excellent communication skills, capable of clearly explaining complex safety and restraint topics under pressure.
  
• Structured, analytical, and decisive approach to problem solving.
  
• Comfortable working in high-pressure, time-critical environments with significant safety accountability.