Vehicle Dynamics CAE Engineer

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.

Workplace: On-Site, 5 days per week
Location: Foster City, CA
Salary: $130-150k

We are seeking a Vehicle Dynamics CAE Engineer to take ownership of performance, working with physical and virtual testing, providing direction to the various chassis areas including Ride, Handling, NVH, Loads Cascade ,Vehicle control engineers, CAE team, and other Vehicle Integration Attribute areas to assure an excellent vehicle ride quality, a responsive and controllable robot platform that provides confidence and trust to the occupants. 

Responsibilities 
    • Develop and maintain high fidelity multibody vehicle dynamics models using MSC Adams
    • Collaborate closely with the design team to help our supplier partners improve their ability to deliver components for ride and handling
    • Able to generate Suspension, Full Vehicle and PWT loads as per process
    • Develop key vehicle dynamics metrics and targets using physical tests and CAE data
    • Support performance balancing with the other Vehicle Integration Attributes and software controls development
    • Support active safety performance development and validation to be on par with automotive industry
    • Correlate simulation results with measurements of the vehicle or subsystems, and continually explore ways to increase simulation accuracy.

Required Qualifications 
    • 5+ years of relevant experience
    • Experience in vehicle dynamics performance development and Simulation
    • Experience in vehicle dynamics CAE development tools: MSC Adams, CarMaker and Matlab/Simulink
    • Masters degree in mechanical engineering, or related field
    • Knowledge of Dynamics CAE to Test Correlation
    • Strong analytical skills

Salary Range
    • $130,000 - 150,000
    • The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience 

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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