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Senior Mechanical Engineer – Advanced Engineering
| Company | Lucid Motors |
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| Location | Newark, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $133400 – $183480 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 5+ years of mechanical engineering experience
- Automotive experience specialized in structures, chassis, suspension, powertrain, manufacturing, or vehicle architecture.
- Proficiency in CAD modeling. CATIA preferred.
Responsibilities
- Develop vehicle architecture from a blank page to concept design and engineering validation.
- Optimize mechanical, structural, and systems architectures for size, weight, performance, and cost.
- Quickly CAD/sketch parts for systems across the vehicle which may include body structures, chassis, suspension, battery, interiors, exteriors, and ergonomics.
- Navigate ambiguity, balancing concept-phase assumptions and risks to deduce options for engineering trade studies and define winning business cases.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with subject-matter experts and attribute owners across the company such as vehicle safety, vehicle dynamics, NVH, durability, and manufacturing.
Preferred Qualifications
- A well-informed perspective of the consumer automotive industry
- Experience in defining vehicle architecture, product attributes, and engineering requirements
- Understanding of vehicle crash safety principles
- Understanding of NVH and durability principles
- Knowledge of automotive industry joining technologies
- Experience in automotive component manufacturing processes such as extrusions, castings, stampings, injection molding, etc.
- Experience in automotive assembly manufacturing
- A strong understanding of physics and material science
- A familiarity with various analysis and optimization tools such as ADAMS, ANSYS, OptiStruct, MatLab, LS DYNA, etc.
