Design Release 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.

Role Summary

As part of the product development team, you will engineer structural components employed on R1, R2 and R3 platform products - designing solutions that balance often conflicting attributes: performance, cost, safety, reliability, manufacturability, timing and/or aesthetic. This role involves cross functional collaboration across the company and requires working onsite at our design Headquarters in Irvine CA.

Responsibilities
•    Own the development of battery structure components for a specific program.
•    Own BOM cost and mass for responsible parts.
•    Coordinate DFM studies including tooling investment for responsible parts.
•    Work closely with manufacturing to deliver a quality capable design that can be produced at rate for the right cost to meet program goals
•    Create engineering release documents (such as 2D drawings, Critical Function Document, DVP).
•    Contribute to risk management activities DFMEA, design feasibility and design validation action items.
•    Work with cross-functional stakeholders to develop engineering solutions that meet requirements for vehicle crash, durability, and NVH.
•    Collaborate closely with the Body Structures and Energy Storage teams to develop tightly integrated solutions meeting vehicle attributes as well as pack EMC, grounding, venting, sealing, and thermal management.
•    Work closely with down-stream teams to develop solutions supporting best in class quality, reliability and service
Qualifications
•    Bachelors of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering
•    5+ years of experience in industry (or equivalent) experience as a Mechanical Design Engineer, owning a component such as a battery enclosure/structure, chassis subframe, motor/inverter housing, and/or body structure components.
•    Industry (or equivalent) experience in developing solutions for complex cross-functional engineering problems (sealing, EMC shielding, structural durability, crash performance) while also managing costs and timing
•    Experience in component or subsystem testing
•    Experience working with suppliers is considered a plus.
•    Strong structural engineering foundation - first principles / design think mind set
•    Automotive OEM/supplier experience, university race team a plus
•    Good collaborative and teamwork skills.
•    Passion to evolve and improve your own skills and capabilities as well as those of others around you

Salary Range: $100,000-125,000

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 

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