Hybrid CAE Engineer, Vehicle Dynamics and Loads Prediction

at General Motors

• Job title: CAE Engineer, Vehicle Dynamics and Loads Prediction
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Warren, United States

About the role

• CAE engineer at GM Defense building multi-body dynamics models to predict chassis loads, optimize suspension and integrate controls, supporting virtual testing and lab transition.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with designers, release engineers, validation engineers, test engineers, and chief engineers to support vehicle dynamics and chassis loads and ride/handling assessments on GM Defense projects.
• Build multi body dynamics models to establish optimized suspension and steering kinematic and compliance properties.
• Virtually integrate chassis tuning parts to meet vehicle-level ride, handling and steering targets.
• Optimize body and chassis structure cross-functionally with appropriate teams.
• Predict chassis interface loads to facilitate body and chassis systems and create CAE load cases consistent with objective tests and subjective evaluations.
• Integrate control systems as required for performance simulations and integrate cross-functional vehicle dynamics model including chassis & propulsion controls and physics.
• Act as a single point of contact for users inside and outside of the team and continually improve fidelity of chassis/vehicle models.
• Support/enable transition from hardware/on-road based development to lab and CAE environments through collaboration with vehicle development and objective test counterparts.

Requirements

• BS in Engineering.
• 5 years of Engineering experience.
• 3+ years of automotive experience with Simpack and Carsim.
• Experience with converting ADAMS/MotionView models to Simpack.
• Experience with multibody and/or controls integration tools such as MATLAB or Simulink.
• Experience with vehicle durability, pseudo-fatigue analysis and test lab support.
• Proven ability to work in teams, balancing technical theory with practical limitations.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Position subject to export control restrictions; candidate must be a U.S. Person or able to obtain required export control authorization.
• GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship (includes H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.).
• Preferred: Fluent in Simpack, ADAMS and Carsim with the ability to work interchangeably between them.
• Preferred: Advanced Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Aeronautical, Civil, or Naval Engineering.
• Preferred: 6+ years of related CAE engineering experience including FEA, Machine Learning or Spreadsheet solvers.
• Preferred: Advanced project work in vehicle dynamics and/or multi body dynamics modeling.
• Preferred: Experience in automotive chassis tuning and vehicle development.
• Preferred: Experience with modeling deformable road surfaces.
• Preferred: Experience with accelerated vibration profile generation from CAE simulation or test data.
• Preferred: Experience with Military Specifications such as MIL-STD-810.
• Preferred: Practical automotive experience - Building, restoring, modifying; Off-Road or Performance driving schools.

Benefits

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