Engineer

Vehicle Dynamics CAE Engineer

Location: 300 Lincoln Centre (fully onsite)

About the Role

At Zoox we have set the goal to provide our customers a premium ride experience while using our fully autonomous vehicles. You will work with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds such as robotics, control, and vehicle engineering. You will take ownership of the Vehicle Dynamics 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. Working at a startup gives you the chance to manifest your creativity and make a big difference in the final product

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.

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